When Stress Shows Up as Headaches and Heartbreak

You’ve had the same headache for three years. Or maybe it’s not a headache … it’s a low hum of irritability that won’t lift. A sadness that doesn’t match your actual life. You wake up tired. You feel the tension in your chest before your eyes even open. By midday, you’re irritable at small things.…

Why Capable Women Still Struggle With Focus

Most of the women I work with are not confused. They are intelligent. Reflective. Highly capable. Many lead companies, manage teams, raise families, and carry serious responsibility. And yet, they still struggle to consistently execute on the things that matter most.

Mastering Your Mindset ​

Mindsets lead to emotions, which cause behavior. They are the source of the behavior, not the byproducts of it. Every mindset appears as a variety of behaviors. This is why trying to change behaviors without changing mindsets is like playing Whack-a-Mole. You won’t win the game unless you deal with the source of the behavior, which is the mind. Acting “as if” can unlock your awareness about old mindset that no longer serve.

Cool Under Pressure

Under pressure, we are often faced with uncertainty. Humans don’t like uncertainty, so we make up stories about what is happening in order to feel certain. If those stories are based on fear, we go into reaction. Our amygdala is activated, and we constrict or collapse into disempowerment.

The vocabulary of the bodymind.

In the past several decades, the interrelationship between mind and body has become apparent to researchers studying the placebo effect, the effect of stress on physiology, and the effect of meditation practices and yoga training on physiological processes.