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Today, I found myself reflecting on an interesting phenomenon: how seemingly mundane commercials can evoke significant emotional responses. Specifically, three commercials—Popeye's, Sandals, and ASPCA—triggered a notable reaction in me. The specific reasons for these reactions are less ...

Addiction is often portrayed in popular culture as a sinister character clinging to the backs of those suffering from substance abuse. However, the canvas of addiction is vast, expansive, and not limited to just the habits we've come to commonly associate it with. It's time we recognize that addicti...

Toxic People are our Shadows reflected back at us. . . 

Shame is a consequence of the negation of the realities of both self and self. - David Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D.

Imagine if you walked into my therapy office full of pain and shame. You finally worked up the courage to reach out to a therap...

Our brains are incredible. We are born with the ability to take in information from our environment, and organize it into a framework of understanding with the main objective of keeping us safe. We can think of this as our Life Story, or our “Algorithm”.

The Algorithm develops from childhood and is...

The personal transformational process of Alchemy asks us to surrender what no longer serves us as we move towards what does.

Calcination represents the burning off of the mental algorithms that keeps us in painful repeat patterns influenced by past conclusions on ways to operate. These antiquated a...

A study published in the journal Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience used MRI to reveal that practicing self-affirmation activates the reward centers in your brain. 

Saying an affirmation to yourself such as, “I am worthy of love,” lights up the same reward centers as when you experience so...

Various studies in recent years have charted the growing number of young people who are not in a committed relationship. 

While some of those people are happily single and not interested in dating, others are  actively dating, and searching for their forever partner or soulmate.

You may be on a mi...

“Everybody dies but not everybody lives.” – Felicia Johnson.

So many people spend their lives just getting by, not listening to their passions or calling, and moving forward each year without making a change in their life. Then, when old age hits, they look back and regret the things they didn’t do...

There are two types of perception: first of all, how you see yourself, and second, how the world perceives and views you. 

But which of the two types do you think is the most important? If you answered “yourself”, you are correct. Your perception of yourself is the only thing that matters. 

Stop w...

According to the National Sleep Foundation, the average person dreams four to six times per night. Throughout a night, you might spend as much as two hours dreaming, reports the National Institutes of Health. 

We all dream, but shortly after waking, we tend to forget our dreams immediately. When pe...

We usually think of “alchemy” in terms of transforming lead into gold -- a process that happens on the physical plane. What many people don’t realize is there is a process of transformation that occurs on the mental and spiritual planes. We can refer to this as Mental Alchemy. With this information,...

Not everything that we want to do is good for us, and sometimes it’s hard to decide what to say yes or no to. Between the pressure of societal norms, family expectations or our own subconscious conditioning, we often say yes to things we have no interest in. Sometimes, we dishonor ourselves and say ...