Category: Life Skills

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Is Your Master Life Plan Flexible Enough to Make This Your Best Year Yet?

Written by Maria Connolly. Posted in Life Skills, Transform Your Life.

Every December, I engage in a powerful ritual called Best Year Yet. It’s a time when I pause, reflect, and realign my vision for the year ahead. This process often reveals something profound, a shift in how I understand myself in connection with performance and potential. This new understanding is the foundation that helps me adjust my Master Life Plan.

I created my Master Life Plan years ago with the intention that it be flexible — allowing me to grow or rest as I need. It guides me throughout each coming year, making it better than the last. Do you do something similar to get ready for a new year?

Is It Time to Reset Your Life? How to Pay Attention to Holiday & Year End Signals

Written by Maria Connolly. Posted in Change Your Life, Self-Leadership Skills.

“It’s all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self-love deficit.”~ Eartha Kitt

Why does this year lead many to wonder if it’s time to reset your life? The flurry of activity during the holiday season is kind of like a snowstorm — it blows in with gale force, disrupting our regular flow and leaves us feeling a little worse for wear. Plus the changing season — darker days of winter here in the western hemisphere — contribute to the holiday/winter blues.

Have you noticed that when a snowstorm hits, you often have to fiddle with the radio dial to get the station to come in more clearly? (Yes, some of us still have radios with dials!) The storm disrupts the regular flow of radio signals. Life is like that too. We stay in touch with our truest self by looking for signals that mean it’s time to adjust “our dials”.

Setting Family Boundaries: The Somatic Approach to Staying Safe & Closely Connected

Written by Maria Connolly. Posted in Dream Big - Start Small, Healthy Relationships, Somatic Embodiment.

First comes the sudden tightness in your chest at the family dinner table – before the thoughts, before the words. Your body knows. Even as your aunt reaches across the table, inches from crossing that invisible line with another well-meaning but invasive question, your stomach coils into familiar knots. These aren’t just random sensations; they’re your body’s wisdom alerting you to whether or not you’ve been setting family boundaries adequately.

Intentional Living: How to Choose Greater Joy and Happiness Every Day

Written by Maria Connolly. Posted in Dream Big - Start Small, Life Skills, Transform Your Life.

In the hustle and bustle of daily life, it’s easy to find ourselves caught up in the routine, often losing sight of our deeper goals and desires. The key to unlocking a life of purpose and fulfillment is intentional living, which the Inner Fitness Challenge Tool #6 – Setting Intentions targets.

But how do we shift from merely going through the motions to living each day with intention?

Let’s explore this transformation through the lens of a fitness journey—a familiar and relatable process that beautifully mirrors the steps toward intentional living.

Healing Generational Wounds: How to Safely Reveal Hidden Layers of Trauma

Written by Maria Connolly. Posted in Change Your Life, Dream Big - Start Small.

Generational wounds spring from various relationships: parent-child, sibling rivalry, and extended family dynamics. But it goes beyond that. Generational trauma may also emerge from social and economic factors, religious or spiritual beliefs, and cultural and ethnic identity. Whatever the trigger, be assured that there are effective ways of healing somatically.

Category: Life Skills

Is Your Master Life Plan Flexible Enough to Make This Your Best Year Yet?

Is It Time to Reset Your Life? How to Pay Attention to Holiday & Year End Signals

Setting Family Boundaries: The Somatic Approach to Staying Safe & Closely Connected

Intentional Living: How to Choose Greater Joy and Happiness Every Day

Healing Generational Wounds: How to Safely Reveal Hidden Layers of Trauma

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