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Recent posts from Thriving Now.
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Raising Happy Healthy Kids (Free Recording)
Empowering Our Children for Happiness, Abundance and Success with Special Guest Christy Whitman Listen to this lively and informative free teleseminar with the creator of the Enlightened Kid Program, Christy Whitman, and childhood trauma relief specialists Cathy Vartuli and Rick Wilkes. You will learn… …The kinds of beliefs that are crucial for a child to have…
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What Dreams Do You Have?
What dreams immediately come to mind? Write a few down. Now look again, a bit deeper. You might find a hidden chest of forgotten dreams…ones your heart gave up on. Just like cleaning out a closet once in awhile can be useful, cleaning out your chest of old dreams can lighten the load and help…
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Creating Your Dream Life
To All Dreamers and Creators, One of the things I’ve noticed over and over again, is I often need to see different perspectives and hear insights from different sources before I really “own” the experience and integrate it deeply. The more I’m exposed to new information, the more important my primitive brain thinks it is,…
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Dolphins Don’t Climb Trees – Your Child and ADD/ADHD
We spend a lot more time labeling kids than co-creating safe environments where they can express themselves authentically. This system produces emotional distress, pressures, judgements and self-doubts for everyone – kids, parents, and teachers, too!
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What Are Your Excuses?
What are your excuses? – I’m too busy. – There isn’t enough time. – It’s too hard. – I’m not good at these kinds of things. Most of us have dreams. Things we want to create. And for most of us, those dreams will remain just that… dreams. The fears, blocks, and procrastination will eat…
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Are You… TOO MUCH?
Are you… Too nice? Too smart? Too happy? Are you… Too much? Ouch! When people view us as being too much of anything, it can really trigger our primitive brain. We can feel this need… a compulsion almost… to tone ourselves down, to stay within other people’s comfort zones (no matter how narrow THEIR range…
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Heartbreak and Breakups: Empowering and Comforting Yourself During and After
Wouldn’t it be affirming, amidst the pain that naturally comes when relationships change, to hear from your dearest friends: “Wow, you’re handling this SO well” and “I’m really proud of how you’re behaving amidst all this” and…
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Who Holds The Key… To YOUR Love?
What is it that opens your heart to that yummy, warm, essential feeling of being loved? This past week I’ve struggled more than usual. It has seemed that some essential emotional nutrient was… missing.
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Dealing With FEAR
It’s easy to think we’re “broken” or “damaged” when we’re afraid. Fear is like anger- most of us have not been taught how to deal with it. We never saw it modeled (and resolved!) in healthy, powerful ways.
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7 Steps to Breaking Out of Old Comfort Zones
The conflict and inner struggle can end up sapping all of your focus, so all you have energy for is another rerun. And yet another day passes in the same old way. You haven’t taken action to create your dreams. You’re stuck in your old comfort zone… or maybe your dead zone!