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!
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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 …

Setting Intentions
I led a workshop a few years ago on setting intentions. I offered this for a personally selfish reasons: my habit every January would be to look at what I didn’t like about myself and resolve to make changes in concrete ways. I would begin the year carrying those actions out, and they would work until some time in February. Sure, it felt good for a week. Then it became an increasingly burdensome chore until the burden was great enough for me to stop doing them. …