Failure is painful, and far too often the advice for overcoming failure is to minimize how you perceive the impact instead of allowing us time to grieve and process that we’ve lost something meaningful. Every failure is a complex loss of effort, hope, and the reality that we did not reach a goal. Allowing ourselves…

This is a question a lot of my clients struggle with. Introversion, anxiety, and dread are all three very different things that often get placed under the anxiety umbrella. Introversion is simply the state of feeling that you expend energy in social settings. This can happen at the one on one or group level. Feeling…

Being your own best friend is rooted in having compassion for yourself and truly liking who you are. Most of us have a time in our lives when we enjoyed our own thought process and doing things on our own. When was that for you? The next question is to ask ourselves, do we want…