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Why FOMO Is Really Self-Abandonment (and How to Heal It)
Issue 123. May 16, 2025 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ FOMO, Self-Abandonment, and the Power of Refocusing on You I got a message recently from someone who’s constantly battling FOMO—the fear of missing out. She’s overwhelmed by where other people are in their recovery and how far behind she feels, both in her…
Read MoreYou Deserve a Better Garbage Can (and a Better Life)
Issue 122. May 2, 2025 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ Perhaps some of these snippets will resonate with you: One of the really interesting aspects of 12-step recovery is that we start noticing things like this. We realize we don’t have to live like that anymore. We get to purposefully occupy our homes,…
Read MoreWhy I Thought Hope Was Dangerous—and What Changed My Mind
Issue 120. April 25, 2025 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ The most important thing I want to offer you today is hope. Because when you have hope, you have a reason to keep going. And once you have even a glimmer of hope, I want to give you practical tools and mindset shifts…
Read MoreThe Humbling Truth: You’re Not Alone, and That’s a Gift
Issue 119. April 18, 2025 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ You Are Not Uniquely Flawed Many people come into therapy, recovery, or coaching believing they’re somehow uniquely flawed, so broken, so different, so damaged that no one could possibly understand or help them. They believe they’re beyond repair, that no one knows what…
Read MoreHow to Teach People How to Treat You—With Boundaries and Consequences
Issue 119. April 11, 2025 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ Have you ever set a boundary with someone who didn’t honor it, and then you did nothing about it? That was me when I first started setting boundaries. I thought I could just state my boundary and people who honor it. I was…
Read MoreThe Real Reason You Keep Attracting the Wrong Partners
Issue 118. April 4, 2025 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ Have you ever been in a situation where you were convinced that other people were the problem, and then you found out, “Oh, wait – it’s me? I’m the problem!” That may sound disheartening, but in fact it’s empowering. It’s empowering because, if…
Read MoreThe Scaffolding Method – Step-by-Step to Loving Yourself
Issue 117. March 28, 2025 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ For years, I didn’t realize how brutally I spoke to myself in my own mind until I read a book that held up a mirror to my inner dialogue. It was When Food Is Love by Geneen Roth. She wrote out the exact…
Read MoreLiving Life on Life’s Terms: How to Find Serenity in the Chaos
Issue 116. March 21, 2025 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ Are you spiritually fit? Or are things just going your way? We’ve all had those weeks where everything seems to go wrong. But how we handle those moments reveals a lot about our inner strength. Are you spiritually fit? Or are things just…
Read MoreHow to Go from Fear to Freedom: Bookending Your Way to Healthy Boundaries
Issue 115. March 14, 2025 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ How to Go from Fear to Freedom: Bookending Your Way to Healthy Boundaries Bookending is a concept I learned in recovery that I found extremely helpful when setting difficult boundaries or having really tough conversations. If you’ve ever had an accountability partner for…
Read MoreHow to Stop the Chatter: Learn to Silence the Inner Gossiper and Build Real Intimacy
Issue 114. March 7, 2025 ✨ Higher Power Coaching & Consulting ✨ Imagine realizing that a habit you’ve had for decades, something you thought was harmless, was actually sabotaging your relationships. That’s what happened when I discovered my gossip problem. When I first got into recovery and learned that gossiping was one of my worst…
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