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Annette Colby, Ph.D. R.D., is… an enthusiastic lover of this extraordinary adventure of life (including all the bumps, bruises, detours, and unexpected discoveries), married to Ray Nowicki, intuitive healer, leader and teacher of higher consciousness, currently an ex-Harley rider, totally spiritually inclined, inspirational author, personal growth expert, energy healer, joyful cook & baker, blogger, and obsessed with creation. The focus of Annette’s life is helping people move beyond emotional pain, binge eating, eating addictions, ... [More]

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  • Difficult Emotions - Stepping Into the Big Picture
    [Self-Improvement:Personal-Growth] Often, when we're working through a difficult situation, stuck and unable to move forward on a goal, or experiencing intense emotions, it's easy to myopically focus on the immediate problem. This same phenomenon of intense fixation on the difficulty also occurs when we're worried, stressed, or depressed. While it's important to accept the reality of the problem or emotions present, it's unproductive to limit your vision to the immediate awfulness of the situation.


  • 6 Ways to Keep Your New Year's Resolutions Going Strong
    [Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] We're almost at the end of January-how are your dreams and visions coming along? Have you brought your innermost desires off the backburner? Have you started building the foundations for that new career?


  • Sitting in Silence
    [Self-Improvement:Spirituality] Creating silence is the key to breaking into an inner space of peace, consciousness and awareness. It is within the silence that we gain a deeper connection with our unique spirit, a clearer perspective about what is most important to us, and a more evolved relationship with life.


  • Awakening Higher Consciousness
    [Self-Improvement:Spirituality] Awakening to a higher consciousness is how we connect with our true heart and aid humanity at this time of world evolution. With new awareness we live in accordance with our own true nature and from this place of centered harmony we forge a new relationship with life and creation. As we answer the call to our individual awakening consciousness, we play our part in the miracle of life being reborn.


  • East Steps Towards Higher Consciousness
    [Self-Improvement:Spirituality] A higher consciousness means moving beyond our tried and true ways of seeing the world, and gaining a greater sense of clarity with new insights and understandings. Below are several ways that we can lead ourselves into an awakened state of future possibilities and expanded love.


  • Becoming the Hero of Your Own Life's Journey
    [Self-Improvement:Empowerment] If you are currently going through a difficult time in life-perhaps attempting to rise above a weight challenge, move beyond an addiction, overcome depression, or step into a higher position in life-consider yourself on your own Hero's Journey. It's a valid question: What makes a person a hero? Is it untold bravery and fearlessness in the face of danger? Is it a firmness of purpose? Unshaken resolve? A willingness to beat the overwhelming odds?


  • Letting Go of the Worry and Anxiety
    [Self-Improvement:Stress-Management] Sometimes I find myself constricted with anxiety or worry. I am transported into some alternate reality as my mind races with anxious thoughts. My body responds with the tension of stress and fear. How strange this is and how unsettling this feels.


  • Free Yourself From Guilt
    [Self-Improvement:Empowerment] Guilt and regret are inevitable parts of the human experience. Follow these steps to overcome guilty emotions and use them to promote personal growth.


  • Creative Solutions For Stubborn Challenges
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Typically, when we attempt to achieve a goal or overcome a challenge, we reach into our old bag of tricks and try to pull out a solution that has worked in the past. Yet, reaching a successful outcome often requires novel ideas, fresh alternatives, or new possibilities. Learn how to achieve new creative solutions for old stubborn challenges.


  • Develop Optimism
    [Self-Improvement:Positive-Attitude] We may not all be lucky enough to have been born eternal optimists. However, even the person who is easily overwhelmed can learn how to switch their focus to positive expectations.


  • Top Ten Best Things to Say to Someone Who is Depressed
    [Health-and-Fitness:Depression] When someone we know or care about is depressed, it can be difficult to know what to say or do. Unless you've experienced a similar type of depression, it may be hard to relate to their situation. In addition, we're often uneasy to be in the presence of intense pain.


  • Your Intuition is Speaking, Are You Listening?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Mind-Body-Spirit] It takes practice to notice intuition and trust to put intuitive guidance into physical action. Decide to tune-in more often to your intuition and watch your world come alive with new possibilities!


  • Secret Fun Facts About Soil!
    [Reference-and-Education:Nature] Do you know how important soil is? Check out these cool soil facts and when it's warm enough in your part of the word, enjoy playing in the soil with a whole new perspective!


  • When Are You Going to Live Right?
    [Self-Improvement:Personal-Growth] Do you live in a way that is right for you. That means trusting your instincts and taking action when your feelings are hot. Don't always justify your decisions with facts and proof, or prevent yourself from moving forward because of doubt. Sometimes you just know it's time for change. Trusting what's right for you is the key that unlocks the magic in your life.


  • Home Sweet Home - Feeling Comfortable in Your Own Skin
    [Health-and-Fitness:Mind-Body-Spirit] When we live life without trust of our physical body, we live a life that bows to outer authority. Bringing spirit into physical form requires choosing life, choosing to be alive in a physical body, and choosing to feel joy.


  • Simple, Natural Relief For Coping With Depression Symptoms
    [Health-and-Fitness:Depression] Can a simple healthy habit help you deal with depression? The answer is yes! Learn how taking a hot bath can help ease the symptoms of depression by reducing anxiety, calming the mind, and relaxing the body.


  • Self-Compassion - The Key to Improving Your Life Now
    [Self-Improvement:Inspirational] Why do some people face failures and challenges with grace, while others criticize themselves harshly and remain stuck in problems? Discover the one tool that makes the most difference to improving your life, healing yourself of childhood wounds, and lifting the burdens that weight you down.


  • What is Self-Love? It's You Being Compassionate to You
    [Self-Improvement:Inspirational] One of the most powerful ways to create a satisfying, fulfilling life is to quiet our self-disempowerment through self-compassion. What exactly is self-love? It is the ability to summon a compassionate feeling into yourself no matter what you experience in life.


  • How to Increase Self-Compassion in 4 Easy Steps
    [Self-Improvement:Personal-Growth] Yes, expanding self-compassion requires choice, effort, and persistence. However, there's a lot you can do to erase the self-doubt and self-criticism and bring in the self-love. Here are four easy steps that can get you started.


  • How to End Your Creative Block
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] The next time you hit a creative block, remember that's all it is. Your creativity hasn't run out, it's just temporarily blocked by something. You have infinite creativity within you. Use these simple yet profound tips to overcome to get your creative juices running again!


  • Who Stole My Inspiration? Powerful Strategies For Overcoming Creative Blocks
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Have you misplaced your inspiration? Does it feel as if someone literally sucked the motivation right out of you? Follow these powerful ideas to help you take an active role in moving beyond your block. Soon you'll be back to being the inspired, hopeful, committed person you started out to be.


  • Blessed Are the Humans Who Have Made it Their Goal For Self-Improvement
    [Self-Improvement:Inspirational] Finding one's true self has to begin somewhere, and it usually begins when we take a mindful look at our own lives and assume responsibility for overcoming that feels limiting. Often a rich and fulfilling life begins when we choose to overcome an addiction, disruptive tendency, harmful behavior, or intense self-criticism.


  • Tired of the Same Ole Same Ole? Time to Shake Things Up!
    [Self-Improvement:Happiness] Add some life into the day! Re-energize! All it takes to put the pizazz back into your routine is a little creativity. Below are five easy ways to get your creative juices flowing again and add some sparkle back into your day.


  • 10 Books That Inspire and Make You Happy
    [Book-Reviews:Self-Help] Have you ever read a self-help book, and by the time you finished it you knew that your life would never be the same? In one way or another, the following list of books touched my soul and made me more conscious of who I really am.


  • Stuck in a Rut? Nine Simple Ways to End Boredom and Feel Re-Energized
    [Self-Improvement:Inspirational] Are you stuck in a rut? Is life flat, meaningless, colorless? The annoyance, the irritation, the repetitiveness. You want more out of life than you're currently getting. If you are stuck in a rut or just plain bored, then below are nine easy ways to shake things up and get some creative energy flowing today.


  • End of Winter, Beginning of Spring - 4 Easy Ways to Jump Start Essential Self-Care
    [Health-and-Fitness] Has your self-care taken a back seat this winter? Spring is in the air and it's time to revamp your mind, body, spirit routine. Here's a few extremely powerful ways to say goodbye to the long cold days of winter and bring the warm sunshine and blue skies back into your life.


  • It's All About Attitude!
    [Self-Improvement:Positive-Attitude] Have you heard the phrase "attitude is everything"? Indeed, your attitude determines the quality of your life. Here's how to build a better attitude.


  • Feed Your Beautiful Life - The Top Three Tactics For Nourishing Your Joy
    [Health-and-Fitness:Mind-Body-Spirit] Many of us have so many responsibilities in life that we forget to take care of ourselves. The mind reasons that it's silly to take a bath, a nap, a walk, or a break with so many other priorities still sitting in queue. But daily conscious and spontaneous self-care is essential to our physical and emotional health, as well as increasing our joy.


  • Are You a Foodie Or an Emotional Eater?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Are you a true lover of food or really an emotional eater? Find out the difference between a Foodie and an Emotional Eater!


  • Weight Loss Freedom
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Imagine living a life where food is not the enemy, but instead something that is enjoyed. If you are in the process of losing weight this year, keep in mind the valuable reasons beneath your weight loss goals. There's more to weight loss than ending up with a life that revolves around calorie counting, dieting, rules and restrictions, or obsessive thoughts about controlling food.


  • Make Today a Better Day
    [Self-Improvement:Happiness] To have a better day today, take a stand and take action. Here are four ways to make sure that today end better than yesterday.


  • Six Easy Steps to Master Your Goals
    [Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] When it comes to enjoying a healthy, happy life, it all starts with dreams, desires, and goals. They represent your choice to have something more than you currently have. Yet good intentions will get you just so far. You also need a solid foundation on which to grow your new life. To get your goal started and to keep your positive momentum going strong, here are six easy steps you can take to increase your success.


  • Five Positive Ways to End the Year
    [Self-Improvement:Inspirational] The end of a delicious feast is often marked by coffee, an after dinner drink, and a sweet dessert. Dessert time not only provides perfect closure to a memorable meal, but also assists digestion, aids assimilation, and creates space for good conversation.


  • Weight Loss Resolutions That Stick
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] If you have set weight loss as your goal once again, congratulate yourself for holding tight to your dream! Start fresh, focus on the positive aspects of your courage, and give yourself credit for your determination. In your journey of successful weight loss, utilize the tips above to build enthusiasm, confidence, and steady momentum. Never give up on your dream!


  • Why Are So Many People Depressed?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Depression] Why are so many people experiencing depression during their lifetime? Learn why depression is not a disease, but an important personal evolution into empowerment, authenticity, and divinity.


  • Smell Your Way to a Happier Life
    [Health-and-Fitness:Mind-Body-Spirit] Anxiety, stress, and depression drive thousands of people to take powerful medications that all too often come with serious unwanted health risks. Now many people are looking to alternative natural remedies to avoid adverse side effects. But can something as gentle as your sense of smell match the potency of modern medicine?


  • Best Things to Say to Someone Who is Hopeless Or Depressed
    [Health-and-Fitness:Depression] If you have a friend or loved one who is experiencing hopelessness or depression, it can be difficult to know exactly what to say or do. While there isn't any one magic thing to say that will alleviate their pain, there are many ways to offer support.


  • How to Overcome Insurmountable Challenges
    [Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] The key to overcoming any challenge is to empower yourself through the situation. In fact, life's challenges and adversities can be one of the most inspiring, creative, and resourceful periods of your life. Learn how to use your challenges to empower your life.


  • 5 Ways to Help Yourself Create a Happy Holiday Season
    [Home-and-Family:Holidays] The holidays are a time of bright lights, celebration parties, joy, and connection. But, the holidays can also be a time of stress, disappointment, and demanding expectations. If you are looking to feel more authentic and empowered during this holiday season, check out these five new ways to feel more authentically alive and filled with spirit.


  • Feeling Worse Instead of Better? Why Personal Growth Often Feels Bad
    [Self-Improvement:Personal-Growth] If you've been working steadily to overcome an addiction, move beyond an old limitation, bring more joy into your life, or manifest a new beginning, instead of feeling better, you may be experiencing some unusual  and often perplexing  symptoms. Learn why you're feeling bad and gain new strategies to feel better quickly.


  • Enjoy Food, Enjoy Life!
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Increase your sensory enjoyment of food and become a thinner you. If you are looking to live a great life, develop a deep and satisfying mind, body, and spirit relationship with yourself, or create a new balance with weight, then consider paying attention to the joy available in your eating experiences.


  • How Acceptance Can Help You Overcome Depression
    [Health-and-Fitness:Depression] It's you, alone in the world, in a constant fog of intense sadness and lethargy. You alternate between hiding your misery and sobbing uncontrollably. You feel empty inside, as if nobody loves you. And your self-esteem is at an all-time low.


  • Love is in the Details
    [Self-Improvement:Happiness] Do you want to live a life filled with joy and vibrant aliveness? Of course you do! But knowing precisely how to live that joy-filled life can be confusing.


  • The Type of Self-Talk That Actually Helps Depression
    [Health-and-Fitness:Depression] When you are feeling hopeless or depressed it is often very difficult to think clearly or find anything to make yourself feel better. Life can feel pointless. Getting out of bed in the morning may as well be running a marathon. You just don't have anything to give.


  • Count Your Blessings - Benefits of Feeling More Gratitude
    [Self-Improvement:Positive-Attitude] If you've spent a better part of your time lately focusing on what's wrong, what's bad, what's frightening, or what's missing, then you might be surprised at how easy it can be to turn things around. Here are five innovative ways to expand gratefulness that will soon have you feeling the spirit of genuine appreciation and joy.


  • How to Liberate the Hero in You
    [Self-Improvement:Techniques] Are you the confident hero of your own life, leading yourself compassionately and decisively - not only when things are smooth, but especially when the going gets tough? Follow these tips and release your hidden inner hero!


  • Confidence to Love Your Life
    [Self-Improvement:Self-Esteem] Wouldn't you just love to know how to awaken a renewed passion and brilliant determination to move forward on your dreams...without becoming impatient before achieving success, and wanting to give up just a moment too soon? If you've ever caught yourself making any of the following comments, then you'll want to keep reading.


  • Need More Confidence? Real Life Strategies That Work
    [Self-Improvement:Self-Esteem] Do you want to know a secret? I could let you in on something that could literally guarantee your success in achieving your goals. It's a secret not too many people fully comprehend but it ultimately controls how successful you will be in attaining your outcome.


  • 10 Ways to Add Romance to Your Own Life
    [Self-Improvement:Happiness] This is the perfect time of year to enlarge a new attitude towards yourself - one of kindness, acceptance, and appreciation. Learn how to play an active role in your own romantic dance with life. Enjoy, and be inspired to make your everyday filled with romance!


  • Surviving Loneliness
    [Health-and-Fitness:Depression] Being alone in life is one of those experiences - if we can survive - that can bring us into the core of our very being, knowing and loving ourselves better than we ever have before. After experiencing divorce several years ago, I found myself living alone for the first time in over 20 years. Quite to my surprise, it was astonishing how difficult this transitional period was.


  • Five Things to Be Happy About Right Now
    [Self-Improvement:Happiness] It's easy to focus on the disappointments and stress of life. However, if we look around for just a moment, we may be surprised at the number of opportunities that are available to turn our frowns into smiles.


  • 4 Powerful Ways to Regain Self-Confidence Despite Challenges
    [Self-Improvement:Self-Esteem] Self-confidence can often be at a low-low place when we are in the midst of making important changes. The question becomes how you learn to trust yourself to continue moving forward even when things aren't going as effortlessly as anticipated? Below are four powerful ways to regain confidence when it looks like you've almost lost it altogether.


  • Quality "You" Time
    [Self-Improvement:Happiness] Putting the right amount of solitude into your life is essential to your health, inner peace, and happiness. Here's why finding some alone quality time is so important.


  • Eight Ways to Overcome Self-Doubt and Gain Confidence
    [Self-Improvement:Techniques] Having self-doubt is an all too common occurrence for many people. It can rob us of a joyful, meaningful life, and keep our best gifts locked up inside. If your self-doubt and fear stops you from living the great life you dream about, here are eight techniques and processes that can help you break through them.


  • Discover Remarkable Secrets to Unblock Your Creativity
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Creativity is your urge to play with life, to see what is possible, to create your most fulfilling and meaningful life, and enjoy all that is good and beautiful. Utilize these seven suggestions to awaken and sharpen your creative spirit and you will be surprised at how often it will give you a short cut to the life and outcomes you want.


  • Depression - How to Handle Suicidal Thoughts
    [Self-Improvement] Chances are that if you've been depressed for awhile, or you're experiencing ongoing hopelessness, some aspect of yourself has begun to drop not so subtle hints about checking out of life. You've probably even heard that voice beckoning you with the promise of no more pain, and tempting you with the lure of rest from your self-tormenting thoughts. Is Suicide An Option?


  • Keeping Your Goals on Track
    [Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] If your self-improvement goals were derailed during the year, it's not too late to get back on track. Use the following article to focus on what you want to accomplish this year, and make good things happen!


  • Get Excited About Your Life!
    [Self-Improvement:Happiness] If you're not as excited about your life as you want to be, take comfort in knowing that increasing the joy in your is something that you can actually take control of. Becoming inspired, energized, and fully engaged in your life is definitely possible! Life is a "Do-It-Yourself Project" and here are 6 ways to take action now and make your life something to get excited about!


  • How Good Are You at Taking Care of Yourself?
    [Self-Improvement] Wondering if you are doing a decent job of taking care of yourself - or how your self caring could be improved? Review the following questions, and reflect on your answers. Chances are you are struggling in at least a few of the realms where self-care is most important: a satisfying diet, physical activity, solitude, and reflection.


  • 4 Powerful Ways to Boost Motivation
    [Self-Improvement:Motivation] Motivation - four powerful ways to fire it up. Follow these steps to feel motivated to achieve your goal.


  • Are You an Emotional Eater? Knowing the Answer Could Lead to Weight Loss Success
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] If you have been frustrated with your inability to get a handle on food or weight, you may be dealing with more than just a love of food. Discovering the signs of emotional eating can help lead you down a new path to weight loss success.


  • How to Completely Overcome Stress Eating in Just Ten Minutes
    [Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] A simple way to overcome stress or stress eating... this easy process can be used at any time of the day. It is particularly effective when you are feeling overwhelmed with anxiety or when you come home after a particularly stressful day. This article is aimed at those who find themselves anxious or stressed and then turn to food as a way to get lost in eating and escape the tightness of stress.


  • Eating to Energize Your Life!
    [Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Life can be quite drag when you are feeling dog-tired fatigue and can hardly keep your eyelids propped open. If your energy level isn't what it could be, it's time to take action! Revitalize yourself and get back your vim and vigor with these super energizing food tips.


  • Why People Smoke Cigarettes - Five Reasons That Might Surprise You
    [Health-and-Fitness:Quit-Smoking] If you, or someone you love, is ready to quit smoking then this article will bring to light important and often unidentified reasons underlying people's decision to smoke cigarettes. These reasons might surprise you.


  • Local Food - Top Six Food And Body Benefits to Eat Locally
    [Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] There's a new movement brewing - eat locally. But what's the importance of eating food grown and produced locally? There are plenty of great reasons to eating local - from conserving energy to supporting local economies. But the best benefit lies in developing a new, authentic, and richly rewarding relationship between your body and food.


  • Top 10 Ways to Lose Weight and Tame the Hunger Monster
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Losing weight is about fewer calories in and more calories out. Right? The problem is that when we cut calories we often find ourselves feeling hungry. This article looks at strategies that you can use to lower your calorie intake and lower your weight while taming the hunger beast.


  • "I've Got a Great Life!" (Why Am I Not Happy?)
    [Self-Improvement:Happiness] Learning to lift you mood can seem impossible at times, but there are ways to help yourself feel better. Experiment with the tips above and discover what lifts the funk out of you. Spending some time figuring out how to release a sad mood will payoff big time to give you a more fun and fulfilling life.


  • Key Strategies To Overcoming Self-Doubt
    [Self-Improvement] Overcoming self-doubt is possible. But it is up to you to get things started. Believe in your own possibilities. And when fears and self-doubt show up in your life, break through them by using these tools and skills. They work.


  • Crazy Busy? 10 Secrets to Easily Create Life Balance
    [Self-Improvement:Happiness] Do you have reasonable balance in your life? Are you nurturing yourself on a daily basis? If your life balance could use a little re-balancing, here are 10 tips that will move you in the right direction.


  • Your Highest Potential - Personal Success Changes the World
    [Self-Improvement:Success] Your highest potential is your ability to understand that you are the creator of your life. You are powerful beyond your comprehension to consciously create and manifest your desires.


  • Emotional Eating - The 10 Most Powerful Emotions You Eat to Kill
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] You can overcome emotional eating by becoming aware of what triggers your eating. Read the top ten most powerful emotions you eat to kill.


  • The Power of Choice - Using Will to Create Freedom and a Happy Life
    [Self-Improvement:Happiness] You can strengthen your will, give yourself freedom, happiness, and live the life that is meaningful to you. It is only possible to be truly happy when you are first true to yourself!


  • Six Powerful Steps to Help You Cope With Disappointment
    [Self-Improvement:Success] On your journey through life, you will undoubtedly face disappointment, both large and small. In fact, the more you aspire to step into a greater life, the greater the risk you face of being disappointed. However, it's how you deal with it that counts. Below are six powerful steps to help you cope with disappointment.


  • Compliments - Real Life Strategies That Increase Your Happiness
    [Self-Improvement:Happiness] Offering compliments allows you to see abundance and beauty in all forms. Instead of noticing what is wrong about you, the world, and others, you begin noticing what is right and beautiful. Learn how to give and receive compliments so that you can move forward with your plans to feel good!


  • Changing Habits the Easy Way - 5 Steps to Change Your Habits for the Better
    [Self-Improvement:Motivation] To change a habit, we have to change the direction we have been going. Not only do we have to stop engaging in a certain habit, but we also have to let go of certain beliefs, add new beliefs, and develop brand new habits. All this requires planning, laying the groundwork for successful change, and engaging in new and often-uncomfortable behaviors. The article below is designed to help you move beyond sheer willpower and instead apply proven success strategies that can ensure permanent results.


  • Love the Skin You're In - Change the Way You Feel Inside Your Body
    [Self-Improvement] What could be more wonderful than to relax and be comfortable in your own body? Yet few of us have truly reached a place of peace, security, and joy to have created a balance between who we are and our physical bodies. Loving your body is not about how you look, but about how you feel about having a body and living in your body. Read these tips and discover how to love living in the skin you're in!


  • Three Remarkable Tips to Transform Your Weight Loss Goals Into Success
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Is it really possible to lose weight and keep it off? Absolutely. However, creating long-term weight loss success requires implementing some basic tried-and-true principles. Here are three simple but extremely powerful pointers that open the gates to your dreams. Do not let the simplicity of these suggestions fool you. Follow these three steps and you are on your way to a thinner, happier you!


  • Depression - Am I Crazy?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Depression] Depression can often be an important and necessary experience on our personal journey to living a life of greater joy. If you or a loved one is currently experiencing depression, perhaps this article can provide a compassionate, new perspective on this amazing journey we call life.


  • The Mind, Body and Spirit Approach to Lasting Weight Loss
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] "Every New Year I start a new diet. What suggestions do you have for helping me stick to the diet this year?" Despite our best intentions, many of us never make it past January with our declarations.


  • 8 Ways to Sharpen Your Intuition and Make Your Life Better
    [Self-Improvement:Success] How to develop intuition and expand your ability to tap into your higher guidance. Intuition is your urge to creatively manifest your goals, your dreams, and all that is good and beautiful.


  • Guilt-Free Holiday Eating
    [Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Forget the all-or-nothing food and weight attitude this holiday season. Learn how to make smart food choices, indulge a little, and feel great in the process.


  • Home for the Holidays Survival Guide
    [Self-Improvement] Home for the holidays can be a time of stress, misunderstandings, disappointment. Here are ten new ways to survive the holidays.


  • Do You Want More Joy?
    [Self-Improvement:Success] Do you want more joy in life? Who doesn't! No matter where you are on the continuum of joy, it is possible for you to improve your well-being and joy. By following these key seven steps, you can increase your level of joy in this complex experience we call life.


  • Admitting Success - The Simple Way to Positive Change
    [Self-Improvement:Success] If you want to overcome your difficulties, achieve your goals, and live a better life, then recognizing your effort and success is the most powerful strategy you can implement. Consider the following six strategies about admitting your role in creating success and raise your confidence, build belief that you can have what you want, and feel good knowing that you are in charge of your life.


  • Holiday Weight Loss Survival Guide
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Small changes in holiday eating can make a big difference when you are on a path to weight loss. Here are seven tips to help you find a balance between sticking to your goals and enjoying the fun of the season.


  • Persistence - The Secret to Success
    [Self-Improvement:Success] Gaining persistence is the key to making your dreams come true. Persistence is a solid life-changing decision to keep going no matter what until get you to your goal. The next time you hear that little voice in your head saying, "I give up" use these tips to become a more persistent person!


  • Symptoms of Hope and Empowerment for Overeating, Depression, or Despair
    [Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] If you have been making a serious effort to lose weight, end overeating or binge eating, or move beyond depression or sadness, you know that long-term change involves more than just willpower, tightening your grip on food, or antidepressant medication. Your journey towards greater happiness requires setting workable goals for improving your life and figuring out what strengths you have to solve your problems. Use the following symptoms and signs of empowerment, and start looking for evidence that change is already occurring in your life. Your efforts are making a difference and things are getting better.


  • Self-Love is the First Step to Lasting Change
    [Self-Improvement:Self-Esteem] Do you love yourself? Or, would it be closer to the truth to say that you are your own worst enemy? Self-love means to regard yourself with respect, to recognize and value yourself, and to appreciate your life... But, what if you currently lack confidence in yourself? Read these insights and discover new ways to promote your own well-being and raise your love of self.


  • One Cool Tool to Raise Self-Acceptance and Positive Motivation
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Are you frustrated . . . unhappy in your life and dissatisfied in your body? Are you unable to achieve long-term weight loss, end emotional or stress eating, build confidence, or overcome depression? Learn how to use creative visualization to help you gain self-acceptance and positive energy to live the life of your dreams.


  • Overcoming Secretive Eating
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Do you feel like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde around food? You put on a great show of being on your best diet and weight loss behavior around other people, but once you are alone you feel compelled to eat? Read below to understand a few of the reasons you turn to secretive eating, and then use the explorative questions to reclaim control over your food and your weight loss goals.


  • Sensory Eating - Lose Weight and Create a Healthy Relationship With Food
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Keeping weight off permanently involves more than just plugging yourself into the latest diet or weight-loss trend. Successful and lasting change requires creating a new relationship with food itself. If you are tired of compulsive eating, emotional eating, or rigid diet rules, this eight-step process includes some of the most basic and powerful eating habits you can practice to change your relationship with food.


  • Relapse Prevention Strategies for Dieters, Bulimics, and Overeaters
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] If you are dealing with emotional or stress eating, bulimia, perpetual dieting cycles, or any other form of food addiction, you know how difficult it can be to resist food. Read how to monitor your warning signs and stop yourself from reaching for food when life gets tough.


  • Appreciate Your Efforts And Raise Your Self-Confidence Sky High!
    [Self-Improvement:Self-Esteem] Would you like to be confident in the things you do? Most people would. The problem is that many people aren't sure how. They think confidence is some mystical trait that some people are born with and others aren't. Actually, being confident in yourself and your ability to achieve your goals is a skill that can be learned. Learn this one important and easy to apply strategy to raise your confidence and achieve the success you deserve.


  • 6 No Fail Solutions to Get More Energized From Your Food
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Do you sail through the day at optimal performance with energy to spare? Alternatively, do you struggle with feeling tired, stressed, irritable, and burdened by extra pounds? Just a few changes in how you eat could make a dramatic difference in your energy levels. Add these innovative strategies to your eating habits and discover a new relationship with energy and with life! Who knows? You might even drop a few pounds in the process.


  • Big Goals - One Secret to Making Them Happen
    [Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] As the year quickly moves forward, this could turn out to be just another day, week and month that passes by, or it could be the beginning of something new. Take a look at your life. Overall, how is it going? Would you describe your life as a joyous, passionate expression of self? Are you living your most abundant, peaceful, loving life? Everyone of us carries within an idea, a dream, or a desire. Taking action on these desires is how a relevant and personally meaningful life unfolds. Yet so often these dreams are dismissed or put on the cold back burner because they seem so large and unattainable. Will today be another day that passes by without taking action on your dream?


  • Secrets to Gaining More Energy - 10 Ways to Add New Spark to Your Life!
    [Self-Improvement:Motivation] Do you find it hard to get out of bed in the morning? Do you feel run down and burned out, with hardly any positive energy to give to the activities you once enjoyed? On top of all that, if you depend on food to gain a necessary lift, you may now also be struggling with unwanted weight gain or out-of-control emotional eating. If your get up and go has got up and gone, follow these ten steps and discover how to rejuvenate and awaken your passions!


  • Don't Let Fear Steal Your Dream
    [Self-Improvement:Motivation] If you have tried to reach your goal and stopped because you encountered fear, don't give up. That is the nature of goals. They take you into new territory and bring you face-to-face with your own personal fears. The issue is not about moving forward once fear is no longer present, the issue is how will you act when you encounter your fear? Will you allow fear to stand in your way? Will you run the other way? Or will you say hello to your fear and move forward despite its presence?


  • How to Handle Change and Transition
    [Self-Improvement:Self-Esteem] During the course of our lives we experience many transitions. Some of these beginnings and endings are sudden and unexpected, such as an accident, divorce, illness, death, or the loss of a job. Other transitions are a self-imposed process of transformation such as weight loss, marriage, birth of a child, working to overcome stress or depression, or entering a new career. Use the following tips to support your journey into a new life.


  • Eating For Energy - It's Not Just What You Eat But How You Eat!
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Brain fog. Fatigue. Exhaustion. We all have those no energy days when we just want to stay in bed all day. It is common to grow weary now and then. However, do you find that you are tired all of the time? Does your lack of energy have you feeling that you just cannot be bothered to do the things you usually enjoy? You cannot lead a happy, vibrant, and flourishing life when you are feeling drained. If you have constant sluggishness, your problem could be tied into your eating style and habits. Here are some tips on how to get involved in your eating and beat those no energy days:


  • How To Overcome a Lack of Motivation
    [Self-Improvement:Motivation] It happens to all of us at some stage - you want to achieve change in your life, but just cannot motivate yourself to do it. You really want to reach success, lose weight, or eat differently, but just do not have the push or willingness to take action. Every time you think about getting started on your desire to change, something more important comes up, like washing the dog or running your mom's errands. To increase your motivation, follow the simple seven steps outlined.


  • Stop Stressing and Start Living!
    [Self-Improvement:Stress-Management] Worry can serve an important function in your life, once you know how to work with it. Follow these simple six steps and learn how to move away from stressful worry, and toward building a happy, fulfilling life!


  • Four Common Goal Pitfalls and How to Overcome Them!
    [Self-Improvement:Motivation] Creating a better life is a work in progress. The big question is- How will you handle inner objections and setbacks? Will you quit on your most meaningful dreams? Will you talk yourself out of taking action? What explanations do you give to let yourself off the hook?


  • Approval Addiction - How to End Your Need to Please
    [Self-Improvement:Self-Esteem] It takes time to get over the need for approval and the fear of disapproval. However, it is time well spent! Embracing the love you have for yourself brings happiness, lightness, joy, and creative expression into your body and life. So reach for self-approval today. Open your heart and soul. Follow your passions. Make your priorities important. You deserve to be alive and filled with joy!


  • How To Take Control of Your Life In 7 Easy Steps
    [Self-Improvement:Success] Most people know that "happiness is within." However, they don't know how to access that happiness and then use that positive energy to boost their quality of life. Follow these tips and learn to take control of your life in 7 easy steps.


  • Nurture Self-Pride In Yourself In 8 Simple Steps!
    [Self-Improvement:Self-Esteem] Self-pride is your sense of your own value or worth as a person. It is how much you like, accept, approve, and respect yourself. You can recognize yourself as worthy and capable of loving and being loved. Or, your self-pride can be the biggest stumbling block to living the successful, happy life you want to live. Self-pride effects how you act in every situation, what you say and do, and how your feel about yourself. It is a continuous influence on your perception of life.


  • Four Things You Must Know to Create Successful Weight Loss
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] You deserve to rise out of surviving life and step into thriving. By thriving, I mean that you get to decide for your self what a more meaningful life would look like and then engage in the required actions to make that outcome happen. This means going beyond expecting, or hoping, for someone else to save you or fix the situation. It also means taking a step further than just knowing you do not want to eat or feel a certain way. Follow these tips and discover how to achieve a thinner, happier you!


  • Amazingly Simple, Yet Powerful, Essential Stress Buster Techniques
    [Self-Improvement:Stress-Management] Quite simply, stress is how the mind perceives a situation and how our body then responds to a difficult challenge, obstacle or demand. Stress happens when we believe we do not have the time, experience, or resources to deal with a situation. The next time you are feeling stressed, take a moment and notice your body. Don't attempt to fix anything, just become aware. How exactly are you doing the experience of stress?


  • Become Your Own Shining Knight and Live Happily Ever After
    [Self-Improvement:Success] As much as you might wish your life would suddenly take a turn for the better, no one is going to ride up on a white horse and lead you into the land of happily ever after. But take heart... you can have that fantastic life you dream about! Learn from the experiences of highly successful people and become your own knight in shining armor as you make your dreams come true!


  • The Secret To Lifelong Happiness and Success - Take Action!
    [Self-Improvement:Success] Are you disappointed, discouraged and discontented with your present level of success? Are you secretly dissatisfied with your present situation? Do you want more abundance, inner peace, joy, or happiness? Do you want improved health, a lighter body, or an end to a food obsession or addiction?


  • How to Use Your Complaints and Frustrations to Build a Better Life
    [Self-Improvement:Success] The first steps on creating a successful life is getting clear on what it is you don't want to feel or experience, and then following through to get clear on what it is you do want. Learn how to turn your complaints into a better tomorrow!


  • The Power of Positive - Create Success With Positive Thinking
    [Self-Improvement:Positive-Attitude] Can we create a better life through the power of positive thinking? Positive thinking is only a small portion of the process of conscious creation, but without it, we haven't got a chance. People are more successful when they encourage themselves with positive thoughts and hold positive images of desired outcomes.


  • Moving Beyond "Why" and Creating New Outcomes
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] A question frequently asked by individuals overcoming an eating challenge is "Why? Why do I struggle with food and weight?" Asking "why" is great starting question. It certainly makes some sense to uncover the reasons behind why an eating challenge or weight challenge emerged. However, asking "Why?" alone is simply not enough to allow you to change your life. Discover the types of questions you to ask to lead yourself into a better life!


  • A Common Error That Stops Weight Loss Motivation Dead
    [Self-Improvement:Motivation] Should statements fail to connect with the clarity and joy of choosing to do the work of achieving a certain desire or dream. They pull us from our center and from the joy of taking care of ourselves. Notice how many times a day you say "I should do this," or "I shouldn't have done that." How does it feel to say those words?


  • Taking Life Less Seriously
    [Self-Improvement] "I don't want to be controlled by food (or alcohol, poverty, unsatisfying relationships, etc.). I just want to feel good. I know there is more to life than this." Although filled with anguish, these are beautiful words. They signify the beginning of new possibilities. Your current life may no longer be satisfying, but it is magnificent for the understandings it brought. Even though change is desired, and your facing difficult emotions, it is possible to create change without going into battle against yourself. Here are a few tips for stepping forward while taking life a little less seriously:


  • Happy New Year Questions to Make This Year Your Best Ever
    [Self-Improvement:Motivation] Allow a quiet moment to stop and notice yourself. Take stock of how wonderful you already are. Who you are is more valuable than what you do. Because of who you are, the people who come into your world are touched and changed. Your very presence effects others. Your worth as a person is not based on your intelligence, your income, or how hard you work. It is enough to be you. The ideas you have, the feelings you possess, the words that live in your heart are the important things. This year, live life true to your own Spirit.


  • Your Successful, Happy Future - Straight Talk From a Personal Growth Expert
    [Self-Improvement:Success] The path to creating a life of greater joy is a mysterious event. Each individual person will walk their own individual journey to healing, inner peace, and empowerment. A few people walk a fairly straightforward path toward their desired outcome. However, most of us loop around a curved path, taking many side roads. Practice these 6 steps to tap into your true inner power and reach the success and inner peace you are looking for.


  • How to Handle Anger
    [Self-Improvement:Anger-Management] Anger is an emotion that can be difficult to deal with. Sometimes it's experienced as a fleeting annoyance while other times it consumes our bodies with a burning rage. Anger is a natural human emotion, and it happens to everybody, whether we openly express it or not. The problem is not that we have anger. How we process anger determines whether it becomes a tool for self healing or a weapon of destruction.


  • Finding Your Authentic Self
    [Self-Improvement:Self-Esteem] Are you living your authentic life (who you were born to be) or living a life based on who you think you should be? Choosing your actions and expressions for the wrong reasons is a surefire way to drain the passion, optimism, and energy from life. To bring back your zest for life. read these tips to reconnect with your authentic self.


  • How to Let Your Authentic Light Shine
    [Self-Improvement:Success] Long ago, when your life was new, there was a light that shone brilliantly and freely within you. You carried this creative, loving, joyful spirit with you into this world. This light and power within you was your energetic life force.


  • Create A New Passionate Relationship With Food And Life
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] When was the last time you sat down and ate with passion, without feeling bad by thinking about calories, fat, or what's healthy and unhealthy? Imagine savoring the joy of eating - the smell, visual appeal, taste and texture - and being alive during each bite. Truly experiencing food is one of the great joys in life.


  • Stop Boredom Eating
    [Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] "Hello! I just need some advice please! I try to eat healthy and work out on a regular basis, but I constantly eat when I am bored, even though I am not hungry. I get bored and keep wandering into the kitchen and grabbing all kinds of snacks. How do I stop this habit?"


  • Is Today The Day You Take Action?
    [Self-Improvement:Motivation] Will today be the day I gently push aside all of my excuses, and take tangible action on my personal desires? As the year quickly moves forward, this could turn out to be just another day, week and month that passes by, or it could be the beginning of something new


  • Acknowledge and Celebrate Your Success!
    [Self-Improvement:Success] If you are attempting to achieve a big goal, such as weight loss, overcoming depression, or ending an addiction, your journey may often seem like one difficulty after another. The key to achieving success is learning how to maintain your enthusiasm despite the often-challenging journey. Learn how to celebrate your successes and so that you can live the life of your dreams.


  • How to Raise Your Self-Worth
    [Self-Improvement:Success] If you plan to achieve your goals, whether they are goals of weight loss, ending emotional eating, or overcoming stress, sadness, or depression, you will also need to build a valid sense of self-worth. While self-worth is not about your achievements, it is about spending energy and effort in pursuits that are meaningful to you and your happier life. When you feel worthy, you feel motivated to make behavior choices that support your overall goals of success and joy. Below are a few suggestions that can and will actively build your self-worth.


  • Sustained Motivation!
    [Self-Improvement:Success] In the beginning, it is easy to feel excitement about your goal-achieving venture. It is shiny new and filled with the sparkle of new potential. Those bursts of initial passion are helpful to get you started, but to stay committed to a successful outcome requires sustained motivation. Follow these six tips below to gain sustained motivation and make your dreams come true!


  • 10 Action Tips to Make Your Dreams Real
    [Self-Improvement:Success] Are you disappointed, discouraged and discontented with your present level of success? Are you secretly dissatisfied with your present situation? Do you want more abundance, inner peace, joy or happiness? Do you want improved health, a lighter body, or an end to a food obsession or addiction? Follow these practical and powerful tips and make your dreams real!


  • Optimistic Determination!
    [Self-Improvement:Success] Optimistic determination is a sense that your goals and dreams will most likely turn out successful. It doesn't mean you won't run into challenges along your journey, but you have a belief that your challenges have meaning and serve to make you stronger. Optimistic determination is your ability to see the good even in the worst of situation. If you are not currently a "glass half-full" type of person, utilize these tips to gain optimism and give yourself a new sense of impending success!


  • How to Have More Joy in Life!
    [Self-Improvement:Success] Gaining more joy can seem perplexing at first, but with practice and a positive attitude, your ability to feel more alive, happier, and more joyful gets much easier. Joy is always around you, in you, and available to you. Follow these ideas and give your joy level a boost today!


  • Depressed, Stressed, and Anxious No More!
    [Self-Improvement:Spirituality] Are you caught up in a vicious cycle of stress, depression, or anxiety, and feel like you may never get out? While you can't buy happiness, you can learn how to kick stress, depression, and anxiety out of your life. This easy six-step plan will help you gain control and feel calmer and happier as you get your life back.


  • 10 Core Principles You Need to Remodel Your Life
    [Self-Improvement] To live your best life, you want to make sure that you follow core principles that empower. Listed below are ten fundamental principles of personal responsibility that can help you become more successful in your own life.


  • Increase Your Luck!
    [Self-Improvement:Success] Consider what you could create if you knew luck was on your side! Below, in condensed format, are some basic skills needed to increase luck...


  • Easy Short Cuts to Serenity
    [Self-Improvement:Success] Listed below are some easy suggestions to help quiet the mind -- and they don't require much time or learning ability. Try one or more of these ideas if you either don't know how to begin, or if swear that you're just so busy that couldn't possibly create a moment of silence for yourself. Enjoy!


  • How to Turn Your Pessimism into Hope and Optimism
    [Self-Improvement:Positive-Attitude] Turning yourself into a person who tends to see the glass half-full instead of half-empty is possible! However, it will not happen on its own or occur magically overnight. Learning to become a person who is optimistic and who loves life takes desire and effort. Follow these simple action steps to create a new way of loving your life!


  • Failures - Opportunities In Disguise
    [Self-Improvement:Motivation] Failure doesn't generally feel good, but the experience can be valuable. Actually, it's probably the only way to become successful. The obstacles, setbacks, and stumbling blocks are an anticipated aspect of any journey. Failure is really just feedback telling you to adjust your plan or to try a new approach.


  • One Powerful Step to a Happier Life
    [Self-Improvement:Success] If you are struggling with emotional eating, depression, excessive stress, or low self-confidence, you might be pleased to know that emotional well-being is attainable for you! Review the definitions of emotional well-being and choose one specific action to incorporate into your life right now that will take you one-step closer to the life of your dreams.


  • One Empowering Action to End Compulsive Overeating
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] No more delays. No more waiting until Monday to start your next diet. Follow this simple and effective approach and you will feel empowered right now as you take one important step toward your weight loss and long-term weight management success.


  • Proven, Practical, and Easy Steps to Create a Happier Life
    [Self-Improvement:Happiness] Are you lacking confidence? Perhaps feeling blue, depressed, stressed, or hopeless about a particular issue in your life? There is good news! It is possible to create a happier life. Find out how to take a few simple, but powerful, steps to make you feel better from the inside out.


  • Learning How to Love Yourself
    [Self-Improvement:Self-Esteem] The most important relationship you will ever have is the one you have with yourself. Yet, how often have you heard yourself say, "I am my own worst enemy"? If your goals involve raising your confidence, ending depression, moving beyond diets or overeating behaviors, or just plain wanting to live a happier, fulfilled life, you have to know what self love looks like. Learn how to define self-love and then how to bring it into your own life!


  • How To Make Your Dreams Real
    [Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] Are you living a happy and satisfied life? If your answer is a solid no, have no fear. Even if you are overly stressed, depressed, suffering low self-esteem, or stuck in a cycle of overeating or other addictive process, you can turn things around. One way to make your happy and satisfied life happen is to start taking action on your dreams. Read below and learn the steps that will guide you into a world of dreams come true.


  • Passion and Your Weight Loss Journey
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] When you choose a goal, such as weight loss or ending emotional eating, you have chosen a direction for your life. Yet, until you apply passion to your journey, you will view your goal as an unfair burden, or as something you "have" to endure. Learn how to apply passion to your journey and achieve never-ending motivation!


  • There's Magic In Journal Writing!
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] If you have ever toyed with the idea of starting a journal, or you are considering doing so now, take a chance and go for it! There is no right way or wrong way to write. Your benefits will far outweigh your efforts. Who knows what wonderful adventures your journals may one day inspire!


  • Confidence Building Steps That Work Like Crazy!
    [Self-Improvement:Self-Esteem] Self-confidence plays a large part in determining your happiness through life. If you don't currently have much self-confidence, read this article and discover six practical way to boost your confidence level through the roof!


  • Considering Weight Loss? How to Go Beyond Thinking Into Action!
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Are there moments in time where you seriously consider making some changes surrounding your food habits or your weight? Contemplating change is an important stage to go through on the way to achieving success. Yet it is common to get seriously stuck in contemplation - sometimes for years and years. Continue reading and learn how to best utilize contemplation to strengthen your internal motivation and pave the road to change. These tips can help get you off the fence and moving forward into action!


  • Healthy Happy Weight Loss, Healthy Happy Life!
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] As you know, healthy weight loss involves more than just cutting calories and exercising more. You want to change your weight, but you also want to create a healthy relationship with your life, food, body, and self. Follow these simple guidelines and learn a few tips on how to make your weight loss journey balanced and healthy.


  • This Two Minute Morning Time-Out Can Change Your Life
    [Self-Improvement:Success] By taking just two minutes every morning, you can set your mood, put yourself in the right frame of mind, and maximize your outcomes for the upcoming day. Learn this easy, simple to use strategy and turn your routine, ho-hum morning into a two-minute potential generating, life changing opportunity.


  • Conditions of Happiness - Happy vs Unhappy - Do We Have A Choice?
    [Self-Improvement:Happiness] What exactly is happiness? We know it when we feel it and we certainly know it is missing. Find out if your level of happiness is pre-determined and unchangeable, or if you really do have the ability to control exactly how much happiness you feel in your life.


  • Weight Loss Success - Body Acceptance and Self-Acceptance Techniques
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Self-acceptance and body love can be tough concepts to grasp and even tougher to incorporate. The degree of difficulty doesn't seem to matter if you are thin, or very large, or somewhere in-between. It takes time and persistence to create a new belief about your self and your body. Follow these tips and begin to build a new relationship with your self and your body today!


  • You Really Can Learn to Love Your Body - Here's How
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] You really can learn to love your body. Discover these innovative ideas on how to create a brand new relationship between yourself and your body.


  • A New Approach to End Comfort Eating
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Almost everyone engages in the act of comfort eating from time to time. It is common to reach for food when we are unhappy in life, feeling stressed, depressed, bored, or disempowered. However, we often feel worse after comfort eating then we did before. Learn how to create pleasurable eating experiences and gain the sweetness of life, and the fullness of love you long for.


  • How to Build A Self-Confident Life!
    [Self-Improvement:Self-Esteem] Do you like you? If your self-confidence could use a boost, here is an easy and effective way to raise your self-confidence and think about yourself in a whole new way.


  • Happiness, Pleasure, and Weight Loss
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] If you are struggling with an inability to maintain long-term weight loss, or stuck in behaviors of binge eating, emotional eating, or stress eating, you already know that your weight or eating patterns are about something far deeper than food alone. The pattern of how you eat is a language of sorts, speaking of your own decisions to be alive, energetic and passionate, authentic . . . or not. Read these tips and watch your relationship with food change as you become more "true to yourself" and more willing to allow yourself pleasure!


  • Do, Or Do Not - There Is No Try
    [Self-Improvement:Success] When you say "I'll try" you are giving yourself an out. Sure, you will move forward if everything falls into place and your day happens to run smoothly. However, should some obstacle surface, you now have a built in escape route that gets you off the hook. Find out how to make one small shift in your language, and make your success inevitable.


  • Visualize Success for a Happy Life
    [Self-Improvement:Success] Are you frustrated not following through on your plans to lose weight, build your confidence, end your depression, or live the happier life you know you deserve? Learn how to use creative visualization to help you melt away your mental roadblocks and live your dreams now!


  • Compulsive Eating and Binge Eating Disaster Plan
    [Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] Sometimes good intentions and willpower aren't enough to overpower a craving or the urge to comfort eat. This is where positive desire needs to be coupled with a predetermined, personalized plan of action. Follow this empowering guide and develop your own individual crisis management plan of action!


  • Do You Love Yourself?
    [Self-Improvement:Happiness] People who lose confidence often forget how to love themselves. Read these tips and reawaken your memory of what healthy self-love looks like. Then learn two simple ways to increase your commitment to a happy, fulfilling, self-loving life.


  • Appreciation & Blessings To Eating Peacefully
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] If you are reading this newsletter, chances are you have less than peaceful coexistence with food. Perhaps you have a love-hate relationship with food, wish that food didn't exist, or have some other distorted relationship with food. Whatever your individual challenge, food may no longer represent enjoyment, satisfaction, and nourishment. Read these heartfelt blessings, prayers, and simple moments of quiet contemplation to develop a new peaceful relationship with food and life.


  • Feeling Stuck? Eight Steps to Get You Moving Forward
    [Self-Improvement:Motivation] "I know what I need to do, but I just can't get myself started." Who among us hasn't been caught in this scenario before? We know what to do, but we cannot seem to put knowledge into action. As a result, we feel frustrated and stuck. Use these eight ideas to move beyond complacency and start making your dreams come true!


  • Five Steps to Stop Your Food Cravings and Prevent Overeating
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Oh, no . . . You suddenly realize that you are well on your way to eating more than you had intended. Maybe it's a meal that you've already eaten too much of, or perhaps an unexpected binge. How do you stop? It's not going to be easy, but it is possible to find a way to put the brakes on. Use these five steps and discover your inner power to say "no" to food and "yes" to a happier, thinner life.


  • "Stinking-Thinking" Mistakes That Kill Your Weight Loss Efforts
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] If you want successful, long-term weight loss or an end to emotional or stress eating, you are going to need all the optimism and self-support you can generate. One essential tool you must have to build solid self-reliance is the ability to identify your negative styles of thinking. Discover these nine types of "stinking-thinking" patterns of thought and your whole life will change before your eyes.


  • Five Simple Motivation Strategies That Work
    [Self-Improvement:Motivation] Every one of us has the potential to successfully more through the unique problems that face us. Yet, creating success often involves identifying the many ways in which we continue to think negatively and the many ways we limit ourselves. Use these five proven tips to help you weed out negative habits and replace them with positive, supportive behaviors.


  • Creating An Effective Toolbox For Success
    [Self-Improvement:Coaching] Most people have a toolbox of coping mechanisms that effectively get us through life's tougher situations. But if that toolbox isn't very full with empowering tools, then we are unable to cope with balance when a stressful situation arises. Oftentimes, people who use food to cope (anorexia, bulimia, compulsive overeating, binge eating, etc.) do not have many soothing, calming, nurturing tools to alleviate anxiety. The use of food or addiction becomes one of the few ways to reduce the effects of stress from the mind and body.


  • Five Simple Steps to End Procrastination and Get Motivated Fast
    [Self-Improvement:Motivation] Procrastination not only delays you living the life of your dreams, it also commonly involves feelings of guilt, frustration, stress, and depression. Use these five steps to put your goal into perspective, provide clarity, organize your priorities, and start moving forward with doable yet meaningful actions. Soon, you will be feeling lighter and happier as you find yourself on the road to a better life!


  • 8 Secrets to a Happy and Motivated Life
    [Self-Improvement:Happiness] One of the secrets of achieving your goals requires understanding that the changes you are asking yourself to make will be uncomfortable. Your success rests on planning ahead to give yourself the tools and support you need to make yourself feel safe even in the midst of change and uncertainty. The following strategies are designed to help you find that trust and self-assuredness when you are in the midst of creating a major life change.


  • Master the Art of Self-Support and Achieve Your Dreams - Fast!
    [Self-Improvement:Success] Are you moving forward on your efforts to achieve your goals and dreams? If so, along the way you will certainly experience many victories. Yet, most likely, there will also be challenges and failures. Use these empowering suggestions to stay on track until your goal is achieved,


  • Master the Skills of Success and Achieve Your Most Elusive Goals
    [Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] Everyone has something in their life that they would like to change. Some really big goals include overcoming addiction, achieving and sustaining weight loss, attaining inner peace, manifesting health, or becoming more successful. We are born to continuously expand our abilities.


  • Practical and Useful Steps to Gain Inner Peace
    [Self-Improvement:Abundance-Prosperity] We all crave inner peace, but how do we reach it? Will it take years of intense meditation practice or hours of yoga classes to reach inner peace? Maybe or maybe not. If you are ready to have greater inner peace, continue reading and discover practical and useful steps that you need to know to get you started.


  • How to Feel Joyful, Even If You Want to Lose Weight
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] We all want to feel joy. However, do you feel that you have to go on a diet, lose weight, wear the right clothes, or become worthy before you can feel joyful? Joy is something that you can choose right now. By following these steps, you can figure out how you keep joy out of your life . . . and then take action to bring more joy into your life. You deserve to enjoy your life!


  • Law Of Attraction Vision Boards - The Secret To Getting What You Want In Life
    [Self-Improvement:Attraction] Have you ever wondered why your dreams haven't come true yet? Law of Attraction Vision boards are a terrific tool that combines all the success and motivation techniques needed to become clearly focused on the joy of creating your dreams and goals. Vision boards, or dream boards as they are sometimes called, are great tools that allow you to accelerate your success!


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