Overcoming Your Fears: Is There An Easy Way?

Is there an easy way to help in overcoming your fears? What is fear, anyway? Our brains are hardwired for fear as it helps us identify threats to our safety, and then avoid them. Fear would have been essential in caveman/woman times – after all, we needed to know if […]

The Magic of Hygge (and How it Can Benefit Us All)

If you read any books about Hygge (pronounced hoo-ga), they tell us that this Danish word can’t easily be translated into English, and that the simple meaning is generally, a feeling of cosiness and contentment. That’s nice, but we are left wondering: can we all be as happy as the […]

Do You Give Away Your Personal Power? Life Skills Series

Your immediate answer to this question will probably be no, but if you think about it, we are all giving away at least some of our personal power to perceived experts on a daily basis: to doctors, financial planners, insurance salespeople and the like. Often, these people are experts – doctors, […]