THE BRAVELY BALANCED BLOG
For the overachiever and the overworked!
How exhausted are you? I know the feeling!
Does being exhausted serve you? What if I told you that you could have it all without subjecting yourself to hustle culture?
Sounds divine, doesn’t it? Follow along and feel the ease!
Category
- Anger and Depression
- Anxiety Stress & Fear
- Balance
- Burning the candle
- Burnout
- Change
- Dealing with Urgency
- Drive
- Emotional awareness
- Empowerment and Living
- Epigenetics
- Expectation
- Healing
- Hope
- Introversion
- Leadership
- Personal Boundaries
- Personal Strengths
- Resilience
- Self-reliance
- Shame
- Trauma
- Victim Mentality
- Vulnerability
- Worry
- avoiding conflict
- balance
- being alone
- conflict resolution
- connection
- decluttering
- emotional eating
- empathy
- feeling stuck
- imposter syndrome
- intentions
- justice
- mindfulness
- overeating
- perfection
- perfectionism
- procrastination
- regret
- resolotions
- self-awareness
- unfairness
- visibility
Expect the Unexpected: A Gentler Way To Build Resilience
I was speaking with a friend a while ago about how disrupting it is to him when something unplanned happens. Many of us don’t handle change well, especially change we hadn’t seen coming. …
The Trouble With Expectations
Every morning, I remind myself that when I have an expectation, to notice it, to let it go and instead be open to whatever happens.
Expectations are stories …
I Used to Worry About Everything - Now I Choose What Matters
I worry about the future, and have since I was too young to remember not worrying about the future. I would worry about getting things done, about getting things done right, about being accepted, about wearing the right clothes, about serving the right food, about being prepared for any possible disaster – no matter how remote.
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Embracing Solitude
My husband and I were talking about living in very small communities – 100 or less. I’ve lived in such a community when I lived in the Rockies. In that community, people came together for community Bingo night and other such events, …
When Emotions Run High, Pause First
In planning for my weekly blogs, I write down any ideas I come across, then review them for my next blog post. The following idea popped up: how powerful a momentary pause is in becoming master of our personal world.
I was talking to a friend yesterday about a relative he loves who tends to get bossy …
A Strength And Its Shadow: Lessons From A Two-Toned Car
Green and orange: that was the colour of our family car – bright orange covering the top; dark forest green covering the bottom. My dad was a traveling salesman and spent a lot of time out of town. Apparently, this was his way of keeping track of my mom as she went about her day.
Needless to say, it failed:
My Grandmother’s Quilt
The following is a blog I wrote several years ago, about ties with my grandmother through the quilt she made me, and which I use every summer. I’d just switched from winter to summer bedding. That brought me my annual opportunity to feel her presence, and experience the closeness I had with her.
Here it is …
I’ve spent the last month of evenings re-sewing the quilt my grandmother gave me …
Decluttering Your Mind
I used to spend most of my time in my mind, dreaming, planning, worrying, and spiraling. It was not only off-putting to anyone around me, it could also be dangerous. …
When Hard Work Turns Harmful: A Story Of Change
I spent time with an old friend a few weekends ago, who was convalescing after a long illness that was caused largely from overwork. My friend was known for her relentlessly hard work, never stopping when she got tired, pushing through any physical barrier to finish what she’d committed to on time.
People admired her for her energy …
Mistakes Are So Awesone!
just spent a weekend away making mistakes: I locked myself out of my suitcase and had to go to a hardware store to get something to break into it; I rented a car and, in the process of picking out the one I wanted, left my backpack – that contained everything I work with daily …
From Knowing to Experiencing: A Journey of Self-Discovery
I spent time, recently, re-connecting with friends who I haven’t seen for a while. I loved those re-connections: they brought back past times where we worked together for a common goal and experienced, together, both triumphs and trials. I believe we grew and matured from the experiences, and that an essential part of that growth was our connection.
I was thinking specifically about the trials we met together in an organization we belonged to. …
From Reaction to Reflection: The Importance of Self-Awareness
I write about the importance of awareness a lot, especially over the past year. I’ve written blogs, and articles, and spoken about it in my videos. It’s just so critical to self-care – awareness. It’s the first essential step to changing how we approach issues and problems. Without becoming aware that there is an issue, and how we feel about it, there is no way to go further. …
Ready for a New Beginning? Embracing the Next Chapter of Your Life
What do you do when your spouse decides to leave? Or when you find yourself needing to learn to live without the one you can’t live without? Or when your business partner suddenly turns on you and demands a change you can’t agree to?
These are a few instances of major life changes that are visited on us many times over, …
From Stuck to Unstoppable: Confronting Perfectionism and Fear
I was speaking with a friend this week about something she was really stuck on – deciding what she wanted in her business by the end of 10 years. She actually had a good idea – she talked about it a lot. But when it came down to putting it on paper and executing it, she was stuck.
It turned out that what she was stuck on was her own perfectionism: …
Navigating Unfairness: Finding Empowerment In Chaos
My mind and heart have been dwelling on how unsafe the world feels lately. How innocent people are being hurt and that harm is justified by the countries inflicting it. …
From Resolutions To Intentions: A Journey Of Self-Discovery
It’s March already so the typical resolution time has come and gone. But not for me – I do mine on my birthday, which was in February. I also decided a while back to switch from making resolutions to making intentions.
Resolutions, for me, were concrete goals I felt I wanted to attain. They often entailed …
Spice
I like to produce and watch youtube videos. This time of year I see a lot of dieting commercials on youtube. It may be that some of them have merit, but they really aren’t for me and I regularly skip them. I have my own way of dealing with regulating my diet.
Many of us do. But doing so is really hard for lots of us because of these are uncertain times …
You Already Have Everything You Need
What can I do? That’s a question I’m asking myself about my life situation and the (mostly political) chaos around me today. What can I do? So that I can feel like I’m part of the solution in my own life and in my community and not feel helpless.
The answer,…
From Fear To Freedom: Embracing Total Self-Acceptance
I’m a driven woman, and I work with driven women and men. Being driven is a wonderful way to live, if one’s drive is the kind that feeds one’s spirit. It is for many of us. And at least for some, it’s tinged with something that doesn‘t feed the spirit.
If you find yourself worried …
The Power Of A Story
I have a story. Two days ago my purse fell apart. The story of how I chose this purse has its own story, but that isn’t the one I want to tell today. Today I want to tell how I became a purse abuser.
Yes, you read right – I am a purse abuser. After carefully getting the purse that would fulfill all my requirements, it still ended up not being quite adequate.