Are you the one who’s always ready to give a hand, fix a problem, or take responsibility for others? Well, that used to be me in a nutshell. I had a lovely friend and roommate in college who used to make fun of me whenever this tendency showed up in my relationships. She’d say, “Once a mother, always a mother…”…
Tag: self-empowerment
Are You Willing To Be Free?
Freedom is a wonderful concept. We all love it, don’t we? It’s our true nature and our ultimate soul purpose. But to be really free doesn’t mean to do whatever we want whenever we want it, which is what the ego-mind makes us believe. I can think of many instances as a teenager when I’d fight and rebel against my…
Are You Ready For Change?
Most people are utterly unconscious of the need for change in their lives. When it hits them, change may happen suddenly and be quite upsetting and unpleasant. It may take any form we unconsciously create to release tension, such as being cheated on or left by a partner, the loss of a job, an accident, an unexpected disease, a family…
Are Your Fears Ruling Your Life’s Show?
When I look back, I see how much I struggled with fear-based patterns that kept me emotionally trapped. It took me years to transform my life into the journey of trust, openness, and emotional flexibility that I can now enjoy. And it’s not that I don’t have fears; it’s simply that by embracing my emotional terrain I’ve developed much greater…
Are You Out of Sync With Your Life?
I recently wrote about our sense of “otherness,” the internal sense that has become a bullying voice overpowering who we truly are and crushing our every effort to be free (see Does Your Sense of Otherness Keep You Small?). One of the reasons why our sense of otherness and our sense of self may have a discordant relationship is because…
Does Your Sense of Otherness Keep You Small?
If you are on social media sites, you’ve probably read this story. A seminar speaker asks each person in the audience to grab a balloon and write their name on it with a marker. Then all the balloons are collected and placed in another room, and everyone is asked to find the balloon with their name on it. Within 5…
Do You Know What Holds You Back?
I don’t know about you, but since the beginning of the year I’ve been feeling like a very strong energy has pulled a lot of us in almost the opposite direction we expected to go. Some had to push harder to pull through health, financial and relationship issues, while others had to completely redirect their lives, or at least find…