Know Your Worth

Know Your Worth

I often describe self-esteem as a bucket that only you can fill. This bucket has a plug in it; as long as you fill your self-esteem bucket with positive thoughts and affirmations about yourself, the bucket fills easily. However, the moment you look to someone else to...
Take Your Power Back

Take Your Power Back

“If you don’t choose, you live by default” It’s one of my favorite sayings. When we talk about power, truly, the only power you have is your power to choose your thoughts. We often don’t even realize that we’re NOT consciously choosing, but as the Rush song goes, “if...
Find Your Voice

Find Your Voice

As I began to write this blog, I remembered that I had written a blog called “The Missing Voice” back in May of 2011…more on that in a minute, because I just had this flashback. I was driving home one day probably around the time I had written the blog. I remember my...
Be Heard

Be Heard

As I prepared to write this blog, I asked my friends what it feels like to be heard. Many of them spoke of feeling validated and understood, of being released from shame or guilt, One of my friends, Nicole, put it beautifully when she said: “when I’m speaking from a...