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Recent posts from Thriving Now.
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Financial Confidence After Criticism and Rejection
One critical comment can make a capable person forget years of evidence. A client says no, a colleague dismisses an idea, or someone does not listen at work—and suddenly the next invoice, conversation, or public step feels dangerous. Confidence is not the absence of reaction. It is the ability to recover your own information after…
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Business Visibility Without Performing for Approval
Wanting customers means becoming findable. Yet visibility can feel like stepping onto a stage where every person gets to decide whether you are worthy. Marketing becomes performance, and a quiet response becomes rejection. Relational visibility has a different purpose: help the right people recognize a useful fit while allowing everyone else to continue past. You…
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Business Opportunities and Investment: Discernment Without Panic
An opportunity can activate both desire and alarm. You imagine growth, then picture losing the money, missing a hidden detail, or proving that you cannot trust yourself. The mind demands certainty before a decision that cannot provide it. Discernment is not a perfectly calm feeling. It is a process for gathering enough information, respecting risk,…
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#36 – Watch Out For What You Ask For
We learn these sayings from our family and society and they can influence our decisions and beliefs. Sayings evolved for reasons, but they may not be logical or true for us now. We can release the limitations and fears invested in sayings by tapping, and regain our freedom.
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What Is The Meaning Of My Life?
– Connecting with well-being by identifying what’s important to you. – Only want things because of how they make you feel. – Internal vs external meaning – I forced myself to be what they wanted. – Told I could do anything. – Lost in the gap. – What do you want to be?
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Inner Tapping To Help a Scared Younger Self
I’ve been doing some Inner Tapping and found a lot of comfort from it. Sometimes I just feel scared and overwhelmed with pain. I know it’s from long ago, but I can’t figure out right now what caused the fear or hurt. How do I comfort that scared younger me? — Rhonda We often use…
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Voice, Visibility, and the Body Response to Speaking Up
The body often reacts before we speak: chest tightness, stomach pain, a constricted throat, a wish to disappear, or disgust at the recorded voice. These responses can turn expression into a body-image issue. If being heard once brought ridicule, conflict, or exposure, visibility is not merely confidence. It is a prediction about what will happen…
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Can I Be Loved as I Am? Body Image After Childhood Rejection
A child who is criticized for appearance rarely hears only a comment about a stomach, face, hair, skin, or size. The nervous system may translate it into a verdict: I am not the child they wanted; I must become different to be loved. Years later, dating, photographs, mirrors, or a parent’s visit can reactivate the…
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I’m All Alone
– Now you’re alone and life Sucks! – I’m all alone facing cancer – I have to do it all myself – Feel most alone when I’m with people
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Regret, Bad Decisions, and Forgiving Your Financial Past
Financial regret can turn a decision into an identity. You did not merely spend, stay, leave, borrow, trust, or choose poorly. You conclude that you are irresponsible and must spend the rest of your life proving you have changed. Accountability helps us respond to consequences. Shame keeps retrying the same case after the evidence has…