There were big changes for my family this weekend. We moved my mother into a senior living facility. It was both physically & emotionally exhausting. I took Monday off to give myself some space, but instead felt like I should get caught up on the laundry & all the other mess that had piled up while we were busy with my mom. I was frustrated that I couldn’t just let myself relax. Instead I was pacing around moving stuff, putting it away, muttering in my head about what slobs w

Patient after patient after patient with no breaks. That’s what my day looked like when I was a clinical audiologist. My schedule was booked solid from 8:00 am until 5:00 pm with a 30-minute lunch that I almost never got because it was eaten up by late patients & squeezing in people without appointments. I had to choose between working with a full bladder or running to the bathroom knowing every second I was in there was delaying my next appointment. 🙄 It was exhausting. But

What’s the thing you’ve been wanting to do but haven’t? Update your resume? Redo your yard? Start a business or a side gig? Plan a trip? Maybe you’ve spent a lot of time thinking about it… I could take a trip to Italy, but there are so many options of places to visit. How do I get started?? And then you close your laptop & throw in a load of laundry because there are too many choices & it’s overwhelming. Only to open the laptop another time & rinse/repeat. Or maybe you aren’t

What does it sound like in your head when you make a mistake? Is it something like… Idiot! How could I have been so stupid?! Or Of course I… Dropped the ball. Effed up (again!). Said that. Didn’t say that. ^^All of this chatter is your inner critic. & it’s getting in your damn way!!! How likely are you to finish your dating profile when the voice in your head is criticizing all the details that you wrote AND how you look in your profile pic? What are the chances that you’ll

How you feel comes directly from what you’re thinking. So, if the tape in your brain is playing on repeat with things like… OMG that was such a stupid thing to say! Why did I say that?! Now they’re going to think I’m a total effing moron. Or… Don’t complain about too much work, nobody cares & it might seem like you can’t hack it. Just suck it up. Or… That idea is crap. Do NOT bring it up, they’ll figure out that you don’t know what you’re doing! How do you FEEL when you think