Building Resilience

Sometimes the word "stress" can be used to describe things that are going on inside of us, like our thoughts. Many times, we say our stress is caused by our family, work, school, health, commute, mon…

We're pleased to have our very first guest on this episode of Building Resilience, and it's a big one for us! Dr. Eric Gentry of the Forward Facing Institute is an internationally recognized leader i…

Do you like peaches? Believe it or not, there are people who do not like peaches. You can be the juiciest, most beautiful peach, but there is always someone who's not going to like peaches. But do we…

"You can search the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than yourself. And that person is not to be found." - Buddha

Research shows that self-compassionate peo…

How many times do we say "I feel anxious", but we're not really sure why? Anxiety is an emotion, but it also has a physical component, the stress component, which is the fight or flight stress respon…

Mindset. We've all heard the word, especially in a self improvement setting. But what does it really mean? A mindset is a set of assumptions, methods, or notions held by one person or a group of peop…

The inner critic. The super ego. The Mean Girls. The concept has many nicknames but they're all the same thing—that inner voice we hear criticising us whenever we try to change. We're imagining we're…

Where does love come from? Most people would say, it comes from my significant other, my kids, my dog, my family, my friends—movies or commercials or cards lead us to believe that love comes from som…

Have you ever been in a relationship where someone constantly criticizes you?

Maybe they say you're not tall enough, thin enough, smart enough or sexy enough. Even when you do succeed, that person doe…

Before you go running and thinking "Post-traumatic growth? That's so not for me." —this information is actually really valuable. As we've talked about numerous times before, trauma in all its gloriou…

Contrary to how it might feel, we get to decide how we act. If someone says something offensive to us, we can choose to end the conversation. We can choose to never talk to that person again. What we…

We used to think you can't teach an old dog new tricks. However, we now know that, while children are able to heal from their injuries and learn things much faster than adults, we also have the abili…

As we've discussed, your mind is a powerful thing—but so is your mouth (or rather, what comes out of it). Words matter, and our own mind is listening to the words we say whether we realize it or not.

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This is the second part to our episode on feelings! Join us as we spend some time talking about how to allow, how to process, and how to digest emotion. This is truly the way we gain authority over e…

Not feeling your feelings keeps you safe. That works in the short term, but when we run from them, sometimes it can make things much harder in the long term.

Join Heather and Leah in this week's episo…

A thought download (or put not-so eloquently, a thought dump) is one of those tools that we truly believe in because we use it a lot! Writing things down, whether it be a stream of consciousness or i…

If you asked everybody what their life's goal is, many people would say "to be happy". But what does "being happy" mean? Does that mean you're happy forever? If you're not happy, have you failed? As …

The Equation of Life is a framework based on multiple different philosophies and psychological discoveries which we can use to help reveal things to ourselves, about ourselves. It's elegant in its si…

Our human brains are very complex and we're still trying to figure them out. Different parts are good at some tasks, and not so good at others. However, if we can learn to tap into the more rational …

So many decisions we make put us at a crossroads. The good news? Since we're humans, we have the final say! This week we talk about the duality of our brain, the thoughts we have, and what we can do …