Intentional Living with Tanya Hale

What is it about other people's opinions and criticisms that can make us feel hurt or insecure or good?  Actually, nothing.  Their opinions and criticisms are just neutral circumstances.  It's what w…

Growing up is such an amazing journey.  I feel that this stage in our lives is perfect for putting all of the pieces together, discovering who we are and what amazing contribution we can make in this…

Emotional Adulthood.  It's a beautiful thing when we learn how to take full responsibility for all of our emotions and stop blaming others for how we feel and for our behaviors.  It can be a process …

This is #10, the last of our concepts necessary for mental health -- money management. Our emotional relationship with our money and our stewardship over it plays a huge role in our self-respect, whi…

#9 on our list of mentally healthy behaviors is Time Management.  Technically, it's managing ourselves within our time, and it's brilliant when we can wrap our discipline around being clear on what w…

#8 on our list of things we need to be mentally healthy is unconditional self-love.  This one is SO IMPORTANT!  When we can first, learn what it really means to have unconditional love, and then appl…

#7 on our list of important things to do to have good mental health is contribution.  This refers to contributing to ourselves in order to become the best version that we can be, and then turning tha…

#6 on our list of mental health behaviors is self reflection and self coaching.  When we become more aware of where we really are, and when we can start intentionally moving ourselves out of negative…

#5 on our list of good mental health indicators is internal control.  This refers to our ability to take full responsibility for our feelings, realizing they come from our thoughts rather than from e…

#4 in Brooke Castillo's list of things we need to do for good mental health: Take Action.  And this is brilliant because when we take action we create confidence and self-respect.  We grow into the p…

#3 for better mental health is little to no buffering.  Buffering is the process of using something external to try and solve for an internal problem, such as emotional discomfort.  But buffering, al…

#2 in our list of things we need to have good mental health is emotional balance.  Here we are talking about the 50/50 balance of positive and negative emotions, and specifically about our ability or…

Future plans, #1 on the list of what we need to have better mental health.  Consistently moving toward growth by tapping into our potential and our dreams is an amazing place that helps us find great…

It's fascinating that our culture often defines mental health by stating that it is not having a mental illness.  But mental health is so much more than that!  It is more accurately defined by our ab…

Rejection and approval.  One we seek desperately to avoid and the other we seek desperately to obtain.  And yet they are not always what they seem.  Learning to move into rejection can be one of the …

I don't know too many of us who enjoy being uncomfortable, and given the times and culture we live in we rarely have to endure being physically uncomfortable.  However, mental and emotional discomfor…

Remember last episode when we talked about that huge list of mental and emotional behaviors?  Well today we're going to talk about the antidote for intentionally or unintentionally wanting to engage …

Today we are covering a huge list of mental and emotional abusive behaviors.  When we know better, we do better, right?  This is to give us an opportunity to see behaviors that we may be engaging in …

Life can deal all of us a bad hand sometimes.  But actually, it's not the hand that's bad, it's how we choose to think about that hand.  Today I'm going to share with you the experience of my Client …

Today we are taking a look at the difference between the brain and the mind.  Both do amazing things for us, but where the brain is part of the physical body, the mind is part of our spiritual body. …