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Mindset

Develop a strong, positive mindset and unlock the power of your mind to transform your life. Learn how to build resilience when facing challenges, boost your confidence and self-love, and engage in personal development practices that enhance your growth. Explore spirituality to find deeper meaning and purpose, learn how to set and reach goals, and how to handle imposter syndrome. Whether you want to learn new productivity techniques, or are aiming to better manage your emotions, our expert contributors provide the guidance you need.

Imposter Syndrome

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The Polished Mask and Why High-Achieving Women Still Feel Not Enough

From the outside, everything looks as it should. Your career is established. Your responsibilities are handled. You are capable, reliable, and composed. Others describe you as impressive...

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Why Imposter Syndrome Is a Sign You’re Growing

Imposter syndrome often appears at the very edge of growth. It is that uneasy mix of excitement and fear that arrives the moment you begin to step into something larger. For many, it feels like proof...

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Imposter Syndrome Is Not Who You Are, It’s a Thinking Pattern

If you’ve ever looked at your accomplishments and quietly thought, I don’t belong here, you’re not broken, and you’re not alone. Imposter syndrome shows up for capable, driven professionals more often...

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Why Imposter Syndrome Isn’t a Confidence Problem – It’s a Self-Worth Issue

Imposter syndrome is often framed as a confidence issue; this is a misconception. Imposter syndrome may be a mindset glitch that can be corrected with positive thinking, visibility practices, or...

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The Secret Struggle of High Achievers – Using Overwork, Overproductivity & Overpleasing to Mask Fear

Awareness is the vital first step. Awareness is the cornerstone of everything we do, which is why I’ve chosen it as the focus of my first article: to create a strong starting point for you and me to move...

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5 Steps to Overcoming Imposter Syndrome

Is imposter syndrome even a real condition? Maybe you’ve experienced the automatic negative thoughts that tell you that you are not smart enough, not experienced enough, or not good enough.

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The Reputation Trap – How Shifting to a Character-Based Mindset Unlocks Authentic Success

Ever felt like you're one wrong move away from shattering the perfect image everyone expects? That is the reputation trap snapping shut, a silent thief robbing your joy, fueling anxiety, and derailing...

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How to Tell Whether It’s Imposter Syndrome or an Old Belief Holding You Back

Self-doubt can strike hardest in moments of transition such as starting a new job, stepping into leadership, or launching a business. Is that nervous voice in your head a classic case of imposter syndrome...

Confidence & self-love

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Learning to Trust Your Intuition When Making Difficult Decisions

Making decisions can be challenging, especially when you're constantly second-guessing yourself. This article highlights the importance of trusting your intuition and how to rebuild self-trust.

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Is Confidence Really All It’s Cracked Up to Be? Discover the Truth

Most successful stories highlight the confidence of those who were crowned victors. The ability to perform at the highest levels is not for the faint of heart and is built on a solid foundation.

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7 Ways to Know Your Perfectionism Is Actually Hurting You

Perfectionism has great PR. It’s often mistaken for high standards, ambition, or a strong work ethic. In job interviews, people even list it as a “weakness” that secretly sounds like a strength.

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Why Self Love is Shadow Work and the Radical Romance of Reclaiming Yourself

Self-love has become a bit of a buzzword these days. It's often depicted as taking bubble baths, saying kind things to ourselves in the mirror, and buying ourselves flowers just because. And while those...

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The Hidden Power of Surrender and Why Control Is Keeping You Stuck

What if the very thing keeping you safe is the same thing keeping you small? For many high achievers and visionary entrepreneurs, the need for control feels like protection. But beneath that...

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How to Rebuild Self-Worth When You’ve Spent Your Life Being the Good Girl

Have you ever felt guilty for resting? Do you say yes when you want to say no, just to keep the peace? Do you feel responsible for other people’s emotions, moods, and happiness? And even...

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Why Success Can't Heal Self-Worth – Reclaiming Your Inner Value

As a child, the first time you pronounced a word correctly, your mother clapped and smiled warmly. That was your first encounter with success, long before you understood what it truly means. You anchored...

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You’re Not Afraid of Your Power – You’re Afraid of the Responsibility That Comes with It

There is a stage in a woman’s leadership evolution where her inner work is no longer the problem. She is self-aware, emotionally literate, and intuitively connected. She understands her patterns, has...

Emotions

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Rewiring Anxiety and How Hypnotherapy Can Help Restore Calm and Inner Stability

Anxiety is one of the most common reasons people seek therapy today, yet it is also one of the most misunderstood. Many people believe anxiety means something is ‘wrong’ with them, that they are...

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Fit-ness as Frequency: Love as a way of Being

Love is often spoken about as something we feel, something that arrives, fades, or changes form depending on what life brings. But in its truest expression, love is not fleeting, and it is not something...

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Science or Soulmate? 5 Ways to Slow Time in a Fast-Paced World

In a world that keeps accelerating, information reaches us instantly, to-do lists grow longer, and schedules feel endlessly packed. Weeks slip by in the blink of an eye. Yet, there is one experience...

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Why Contemporary Dance Still Cannot Be Replaced by Machines

In the contemporary world, “creativity” is increasingly measured by outputs: speed, novelty, variability, and scale. Artificial intelligence thrives under that regime. It can generate fluent text...

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Let The Lion Roar – How Anger Becomes Medicine for Emotional Healing

In Traditional Chinese Medicine, emotions aren’t meant to be trapped, they’re meant to flow. Can moving through your anger lead to healthier relationships? Recently, on a family trip out of the country...

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How to Deepen the Felt Connection with Yourself – A Bottom-Up Approach

Do you long for a deeper connection with yourself? Do you crave more peace and balance, more meaning and fulfillment? Are you living too much in your head, stuck in constant busyness, too...

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Hidden Thoughts – The Whisper Beneath Your Mind, and Why It Shapes Everything You Do

There is a conversation happening beneath your conscious awareness, one that quietly influences your decisions, your reactions, your relationships, and the way you see yourself. Most people never...

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Fear vs. Intuition – How to Follow Your Inner Knowing

Have you ever looked back at a decision you made and thought, “I knew I should have chosen the other option?” Something within you tugged you toward the other choice, like a string attached to your heart...

Spirituality

Resilience

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4 Ways to Step Back Into Your Power

I was called strong early and often. It rarely felt like a compliment; it felt more like a verdict passed down after every hardship I survived with a smile. I wore “strong” proudly until the label started...

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Surviving the Loss of Your Children and Finding a Way Through Grief

The loss of a child represents one of the most profound traumas a human being can endure. Whether that loss comes through death or through parental alienation when a child is psychologically manipulated...

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The Science of Fear and Courage – How Our Brains Can Learn to Embrace Challenge

Every moment you face a challenge, an extraordinary choreography of neural activity unfolds within your brain, transforming raw sensation into the choices that define who you become.

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Running On Empty – The Hidden Resilience Fatigue Behind Immigrant Success

Moving countries is rarely just a logistical challenge. Sure, there are visas to sort, schools to research, and houses to find, but the hidden impact is far more personal. Your professional identity...

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Your Energy Is Not Random – It Is the Foundation of How You Live and Lead

Energy silently influences every aspect of our lives, from leadership to daily decisions. Yet, we often overlook its role in our performance and well-being. This article delves into the importance of...

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The Gifts of The Beginner's Mind

The beginner’s mind is a Zen Buddhist concept related to approaching life from the perspective of openness, curiosity and compassion. As we begin a new year of intention setting, perhaps this is a quality...

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Beyond Resilience – The Neuro-Strategy of Sustainable Capacity

Over 70% of senior leaders are burned out, quietly running on empty while the boardroom demands more "resilience." But what if grit is the problem, not the solution? In this piece, business strategist...

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Imparting Understanding Amid Complex Cultural Change

In a world full of noise and constant distraction, Understanding the Journey invites readers to pause and look inward. Through brief, reflective essays rooted in metaphysical insight, this book transforms...

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The Year of the Fire Horse and Why 2026 Is Not the Year to Stay Small

February 2026 marks the beginning of the Year of the Fire Horse, and whether you follow Chinese astrology or not, you can likely feel the shift. There is urgency in the air.A quickening beneath the surface.

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When Does the Healing Work Stop? The Truth Is, It Doesn’t

Healing is often seen as a destination, a place we arrive at once we’ve faced our pain, processed our emotions, and learned our lessons. Many people imagine that one day they’ll finally be “done,” free...

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Understanding the Ages, Eras, and the Root of Religion

What if religion and mythology are deeply connected to the movements of the cosmos? By exploring Earth’s astronomical cycles and the progression of zodiac ages, this article invites readers to reconsider...

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Tips for Navigating the Fire Horse Year

On February 17, we gallop into the Fire Horse year. Firepower comes from the sun; it is hot, fast, expansive, energising, and light. In nature, it is an endlessly creative power visible in our sunrises...

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The Gift 8 – Identity Comes Before Healing

For a long time, I have believed that healing makes us whole. That if I/we do enough work, emotional, spiritual, ancestral, energetic, we will eventually arrive at who we are meant to be...

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Seeing Beyond the Visible and Awakening to Aura Perception

My ability to perceive auras did not begin in childhood. It emerged through awakening, remembrance, and profound transformation that unfolded after my 36th birthday. Until then, my life followed a familiar...

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Birthing Fallen Angels – A Spiritual Awakening in Pittenweem

Some awakenings don’t arrive gently. They arrive as a pull, a whisper you cannot ignore, a force that makes the familiar feel suddenly alive with meaning. In the idyllic fishing village of Pittenweem on...

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Using God to Justify Injustice – How Sacred Language Becomes a Tool of Harm

Religion has long served as a moral compass for billions of people worldwide, offering hope, meaning, and guidance through life’s uncertainties. At its best, faith inspires compassion, humility...

Personal Development

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From Fear to Flow and the Mindset Shift That Unlocks Creative Problem-Solving

When fear is running the show, your mind becomes efficient, controlled, and strangely uncreative, even when you are brilliant. If that sentence landed, stay with it for a moment. Because what I see time...

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The Woman Who Plants Seeds In Broken Ground

There are some stories that don't just inform you, they reform you. Stories that reach into the caverns of your chest and rearrange something fundamental about how you see the world, how you see yourself...

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Becoming Human Again, Part 4 – The Reclamation

You don’t arrive at reclamation dramatically. There are no fireworks. No cinematic soundtrack. No swelling music telling you this is the moment your life changes. Sometimes it’s just the hum of the...

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You’re Not Stuck, You’re Loyal to an Old Version of Yourself

Are you stuck being someone you’re no longer meant to be? You’ve achieved success, mastered your craft, and earned respect, yet something feels off. As if you’re living inside identities that once fit...

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What AI Can’t Replace and Why That Matters More Than Ever

Artificial intelligence is everywhere. It writes for us, plans for us, decides for us, and increasingly thinks with or for us. By many measures, life is becoming easier, faster, and more efficient.

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A Love Letter to My Twenty- and Thirty-Somethings Who Feel the Pressure to Check Off Life’s Boxes

Since the very beginning of my career as a yoga and meditation educator, I’ve always had a sweet spot in my heart for my twenty- and thirty-somethings who are navigating those uncomfortable and...

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How the Practice of the “Triangle of the Three Selves” Can Guide You to the Path of Happiness

In the great journey and sometimes stormy seas of man’s life, perhaps the finest thing that we long and crave for is that eternal beauty that is happiness, forever calling our name, but seemingly...

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What To Do When Self-Help Is Too Much

With literally thousands of books published year after year in the self-help industry and even more articles that complement that, there is no shortage of advice offered on how to fix ourselves and be...

Productivity

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Kairos and Chronos, the Two Ways We Experience Time

Most of us believe we don't have enough time. We move from one obligation to the next, measuring our days in meetings, deadlines, and to-do lists. Time feels scarce, always slipping away.

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Person-Centred Care in the Year of Cognitive Health – How?

As 2026 is recognised as the Year of Cognitive Health, conversations about focus, memory, and emotional regulation are gaining momentum. In a world shaped by constant stimulation, burnout, and rising...

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Do We Really Need Our Phones to Live Our Lives – Or Is It Living Our Lives for Us?

Do you control your phone, or does it control you? In this article, we dive into how phone habits shape our daily life, productivity, and well-being. Through simple, actionable steps, you’ll assess how...

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Stop Waiting – The Life You Want Requires Action, Not Permission

There is a quiet heartbreak I see in so many high-achieving women. They are capable. They are intelligent. They are deeply gifted. And yet, they are waiting. Waiting for clarity. Waiting for...

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Why Managing Energy Matters More Than Pushing Harder

I read a book last year that completely changed the way I think about leadership, fitness, productivity, and overall wellbeing. It wasn’t a book about doing more or waking up at 5 AM to run...

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3 Ways High-Functioning Women Can Reclaim Confidence and Sustainable Stamina

Walk into any boardroom, founders’ gathering, or leadership event, and you will notice her. She moves with quiet authority, makes decisions with clarity, and somehow keeps everything on track with what...

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When Self-Improvement Becomes Self-Abandonment – A Person-Centred Critique of Hustle Culture

We live in an era where self-improvement is no longer optional, but it is expected. Wake earlier. Work harder. Heal faster. Optimise your mindset. Become better. Hustle culture has quietly merged with...

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The Power of When – Unlocking Time and Timing

Time is a finite resource, but how we use it, when we act, is just as crucial. The art of timing can make or break success in both personal and professional life. By aligning your actions with your energy...

Coaching

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Why Everyone Needs a Transformation Coach

Feeling stuck in life can be surprisingly isolating. On the surface, everything may look fine. You might have a career, responsibilities, and a life that appears stable or even successful. Yet internally...

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How To Find the Courage to Go After What You Want, Even When Fear Holds You Back

Have you ever felt deeply drawn to a new path, an idea, or a change, but stopped yourself because you weren’t sure it would work out? If so, you are not alone. Many people delay meaningful decisions...

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Beyond the Algorithm – How SEO Success is Built on SEO Coach-Client Alchemy

Have you ever felt that your online presence does not quite reflect the depth of your real-world expertise? In an era where search engines are evolving to prioritise human trust over technical loopholes...

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Becoming Who You Were Always Meant To Be – How to Live Your Life From the Inside Out

There is a moment in life that comes quietly. It rarely announces itself. Sometimes it appears after a long stretch of exhaustion. Sometimes it emerges after a major milestone. Sometimes it shows up in...

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Why Your Mind Wants Change But Your Body Doesn’t – How Real Transformation Actually Happens

If you have ever promised yourself that “tomorrow will be different,” only to repeat the same pattern again, you are not alone.

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Coaching the Person First – How One Class at Seventeen Shaped a Philosophy of Impact

At seventeen, one unexpected coaching assignment quietly reshaped how I understood leadership. What began as a simple tennis class became a defining lesson in empathy, creativity, and human connectio...

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The Psychology of High-Performance Leadership – 5 Ways Coaches Can Build Confidence in Athletes

Confidence is the most coveted competitive advantage in sport. Athletes chase it. Coaches reward it. Parents are constantly concerned about it. But as important as confidence is to performance, we...

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End Burnout & Scale Your Profit, Time, and Relationships at Once

You already feel it. The tightness in your chest when the laptop finally closes, and you realize you haven’t truly looked your partner in the eye all week. The quiet fear that the harder you push, the...

Goal Setting

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Keep, Add, Drop – 3 Steps to Creating Healthy Habits in Your Life

As the new year starts to unfold, it is time to take inventory of your life. Whether or not you set resolutions for the new year, it is always a clever idea to survey your life holistically. The goal is to...

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Visualization & Mental Reps – The Missing Link in Preparation

Visualization is a mental GPS. When you repeatedly picture your destination, your brain begins to map a route, making it easy to get back on track when you drift.

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Is 2026 Ready for You?

So, here we go again. A new year. Fresh calendars. Bold intentions. But the real question isn’t what your New Year’s resolutions are. It’s this, "Is 2026 ready for you?" If New Year’s resolutions work for...

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The Hidden Reason New Year’s Resolutions Rarely Last

Are you ready to 'actually' crush your New Year’s goals this time? Dive in with me as we explore the hidden reason why 99% of people don’t achieve their goals and how you can finally succeed! Each year...

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The Neuroscience of Goal Achievement – What 35 Years of Research Reveals About Success

Each year, approximately 92% of New Year's resolutions end in abandonment. This staggering failure rate is not attributable to lack of desire or character deficits. It reflects a fundamental misalignment...

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New Year, New You – Why Goals Matter and How to Finally Achieve Them

New year, new you, right? Do you struggle to set goals? Do you struggle to follow through on them? Or are you someone who believes you do not believe in goals at all?

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Pause, Reflect, Reset – Turning 2025’s Lessons into 2026’s Legacy

As the final pages of the 2025 calendar turn, the collective instinct is often to sprint toward the finish line. We are conditioned to “hustle” through December to “hit the ground running” in January. But...

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How to Plan 2026 When You Can't Even Focus on Today

Have you ever sat down to map out your year ahead, only to find your mind spinning with anxiety instead of clarity? Maybe you're staring at a blank journal while your brain replays the same worries on loop.

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