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Feeling Resistance to Change? How to Listen to Your Body’s Hidden Clues.

Sometimes trying to make progress feels like you’re pushing a boulder uphill. When that happens what do you do…push harder, give up, or pause to see what your body is trying to tell you?Sometimes, trying to make progress feels like you’re pushing a boulder uphill. When that happens, what do you do… push harder, give up, or pause to see what your body is trying to tell you? For example, 

Maya had made the decision. She was finally launching her new business after years of dreaming about it. She invested in a branding coach, mapped out her offer, and scheduled her first announcement email.

But as launch day approached, she felt herself slowing down in ways she couldn’t explain.

Her neck seized up. She couldn’t sleep. Tasks she normally breezed through now felt impossible. The email draft sat untouched. The excitement she once felt dulled under a fog of procrastination and tightness in her chest.

“What’s wrong with me?” she wondered. “Why am I resisting the very thing I said I wanted?”

The truth is — her body wasn’t sabotaging her. It was trying to tell her something.

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The Liminal Space: Navigating Transformation’s Uncomfortable In-Between

The liminal space is a transitional period between two states or stages, often causing feelings of uncertainty, ambiguity, and disorientation.The liminal space is a transitional period between two states or stages, often causing feelings of uncertainty, ambiguity, and disorientation. You’re neither here nor there, where familiar surroundings may feel altered and unsettling. My client Sophie (not her real name) found herself dealing with the discomfort of the liminal space…

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5 Priceless Human Skills AI Can’t Replace —Why YOU Are Indispensable!

The skills that make us beautifully, unmistakably human… the skills AI can’t replaceAI is moving fast. Faster than most of us can wrap our heads around. It can write our emails, plan our meals, and answer questions we didn’t even know we had. And while there’s a lot to be excited about, there’s something quietly at risk in all this: the skills that make us beautifully, unmistakably human… the skills AI can’t replace.

What are they? And how can you nurture them now?

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AI as Mirror: What Our Relationship with Technology Reveals About Ourselves

As we use AI as a mirror to our inner self, our tech habits reveal surprising things about our inner patterns, fears, and unmet needs or desires.  Most of us have a complicated relationship with technology. We love what it does for us — the convenience, the speed, the immediate access. But sometimes, if we’re brave enough to look closely and use AI as a mirror, we realize it’s also showing us things about ourselves we’d rather not face.

In many ways, AI and our devices have become mirrors. Not just tools we use, but reflections of our inner patterns, fears, and unmet needs. And if we pay attention, those reflections can teach us a lot.

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