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Recent posts from Thriving Now.
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#32 – Waking Up Wrong
Tap Talk Radio #32 – Waking Up Wrong – We all wake up on the wrong side of the bed sometimes. You’re grumpy, things do not look good, maybe it’s even raining outside. A lot of people try to push through this, get one with their day, and that is the opposite of a vibrational…
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Aging, Attractiveness, and the Mirror
Aging changes the mirror, but the mirror is not neutral. It carries cultural rules, remembered praise, old comparisons, and the age we learned to associate with desirability. We can grieve change without agreeing that attractiveness, vitality, or relational possibility has expired. What This Pattern Is Protecting Comparing today’s body with a younger snapshot creates a…
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I’m Sorry, So Sorry!
– Regret and embarrassment – I hurt him. – I’m sorry for everything! – Feel bad about the way I treated my son.
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I Love Money, I Hate Money: The Catch-22 of Wanting More
You may love what money makes possible and hate what it has represented. Freedom and manipulation. Beauty and greed. Care and control. Choice and painful mistakes. When money carries both attraction and threat, avoidance makes emotional sense. We may say we want more while postponing the call, undercharging, losing interest when payment becomes real, or…
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When Your Body Won’t Get Better: Fear, Impatience, and Inevitable Decline
Slow recovery and uncertain symptoms can provoke anger, panic, and the forecast that bad health is inevitable. What looks irrational about health anxiety often becomes understandable when we ask what the body expects and what this response has been trying to prevent. With health anxiety, the aim is not to make the body responsible for…
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Fear of Fear
– I don’t know what’s going to happen. – Worst thing in the world. – Afraid of freezing again. – Don’t upset her!
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Fear of Fear: Stopping Panic Attacks In Their Tracks
by Cathy Vartuli Your heart is racing, breath is coming fast, palms are sweating. You feel scared, jumpy, and vigilant. Panic attacks, anxiety attacks… whatever you call them, they are terrifying. They are especially overwhelming because we are stuck in a fear-based feedback loop. Understanding what’s going on can give you an edge on releasing them.…
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EFT Tapping Tip: I Don’t Know What To Tap On
We’ve all heard that being specific is a key to making progress with tapping (EFT). So… what do you do when you have a general issue like overwhelm, but you don’t know specifically what to tap on??
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I Have to Work Hard for Money: Untangling Family and Creative Rules
“Artists do not make money.” “We have to work hard because someone else did not.” “If it feels joyful, it cannot be serious work.” Family beliefs can bind creativity, earning, responsibility, and resentment into one knot. You may love what you do and still load it with unnecessary effort. Each project must prove that you…
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Trust You?? No Way!
– I don’t trust myself – I don’t trust anyone to love me – I’m not good enough, I don’t trust people (or myself) to value me – I don’t trust myself to take care of myself