In Pursuit of Fulfillment

Guest Post by Patricia Duggan Are you stressed out? Stress is one of the main factors that can negatively affect our mental and physical health. While there are medical treatments to help you deal with the effects of stress, such as sleeping tablets or anti-anxiety medications, these do not usually deal with the real cause [...]

By Angela Atkinson “Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.” ~Ronald Reagan Earlier this year, I was working on a series of interviews of political candidates for a local news source. The first interview I conducted was with a candidate who called himself a Reagan conservative republican. I’m not [...]

By Angela Atkinson Happy Thanksgiving! If you’re reading this post on Thanksgiving Day, you might have guessed that I’m not posting live. In fact, I’m most likely hanging out with one side of my extended family, catching up on all of their lives, marveling at how much the kids have grown–and eating more than I [...]

By Janet J. Eisenbise Do you suppose that my gratitude has anything to do with my state of well-being?  Could your expression of gratitude increase your level of health and wealth? You might be surprised to discover that it does. You can try an experiment and discover for yourself what the effect is.  When someone [...]

All week, we’ve talked about identifying and overcoming the victim mentality, so it only seems fitting to end the week with this video from Dr. Judith Orloff, author of Emotional Freedom. Orloff’s book “discusses how to deal with the ‘poor me’ type of emotional drainer who always says ‘yes but’ when presented with solutions.” Get [...]

By Amy Kessel Owning Pink “Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Watch your words, for they become actions. Watch your actions, for they become habits. Watch your habits, for they become character. Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.”  ~ Mahatma Ghandi One of my coaching clients joked last week that she needed [...]

By Angela Atkinson Yesterday, we identified the victim mentality and discussed the reasons that some people choose to embrace it. We also briefly touched on the negative side effects of playing the victim. Being a victim undermines your ability to make any change in your circumstances–it paralyzes you and makes you unable to take action [...]