Intentional Living
The Podcast
‘Should’ is a sketchy word. Not only does it keep us in a place of limbo, somewhere between doing things and not doing things, it also creates a lot of shame around our lack of focus and momentum. And...
In our home we call it the ‘sh’ word, because should is a word we like to stay away from. It creates shame and annoyance from unmet expectations and it makes us incredibly judgmental of the person we ...
In this greatest hits episode, I get a little bit personal when I tell you about an experience I had hurting someone's feelings and what I learned from it. Basically, that it's all about love. If I ca...
Are you enough? With all of your flaws and imperfections, with all of your mistakes and misunderstandings, how can you really be enough? As women, many of us have spent years grappling with this conce...
Until we can understand and honor our own boundaries, we will not be able to create the kind of honest, equal partnerships and connections we desire. Because they are so vital to great relationships, ...
Brene Brown teaches that the most compassionate people have the strongest boundaries. This is because when we have clear and strong boundaries, we protect the relationship from resentment and anger an...
Boundaries are imperative if you are to have strong and healthy relationships. And I know that seems counter-intuitive, but when we don’t have good boundaries, we end up swimming in resentment and ang...
Many of us are in the habit of resisting things we can’t change, and it creates a lot of unhappiness and havoc in our lives. Byron Katie wrote a book entitled, ‘Loving What is’, and it presents the co...
Learning to ‘lean into’ our relationships can be a challenge because even in good relationships our primitive brain can feel scared and threatened by the vulnerability required. But when we do choose ...
Leaning into relationships is the process of choosing the relationship over everything else, including our fears and insecurities. It can feel super scary because it requires vulnerability and opennes...
Moving into comparison and judgment is such a normal, human thing to do. And we can learn to harness these tendencies to create more of the kind, loving, compassionate relationships we want. Learning ...
We all have rich emotional histories spanning our entire lifetime. And every single day these histories are shaping how we show up in the world, how we respond to other people, and how we interpret th...