Focus Feature

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[vc_column_text]There’s a whole lot of women’s empowerment material out there saying how much our language is hurting us, telling women that words like “sorry,” “I think,” and “I feel” should be replaced with stronger language. Well I’m sorry, but I think this coaching is dead wrong. I’m going to review how and why we keep … Read more

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[vc_column_text]Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook asserted in her best-selling book that if a woman works hard enough and asserts herself enough, she can thrive at home and at work. In other words, you can have it all. The toxic subtext? If you don’t, the fault is squarely on your shoulders. You aren’t working enough or assertive … Read more

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Fearless Quiz

The thing about starting anything new is that it’s scary. So needless to say, I’m scared right now as I take this blog in a new direction. Whether or not the fear is rational (I’ll spend the majority of this blog arguing that 99.99% of the time it’s not), it doesn’t prevent the fear from being present and feeling very real.

I’m not an expert by any means on this. I simply have found some tips and techniques useful in my own life and I think they’re worth sharing. Trust me when I say we are all beginners on this journey.

I’m tackling fear even now as I write this.

What if no one reads it? What if people do read it and they think it’s crap? What if it is crap?

Fear is ever-present in our lives. The trick isn’t to become fearless but to actively fear…less. To separate out consciously the things in life that truly deserve our fear from the voices in our heads that would prevent us from otherwise living full, happy, productive lives. So here’s to the start of something new. Here’s to the challenge of becoming….