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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 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...

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The Psychology of Pretending – How Trauma Wires Us to Perform and How to Heal It

We live in an era where image often matters more than essence and presence. Where “doing more” is valued over being. Where pretending and performing, once adaptive survival strategies, have become...

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Imposter Syndrome Isn’t a Sign You’re Failing, It’s a Sign You’re Growing

After my virtual reality start-up collapsed, I wasn’t sure who I was anymore. I hadn’t yet become a coach. I wasn’t in business anymore. I had no clients, no clear plan, and I felt completely untethered.

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12 Ways to Beat Imposter Syndrome in Your First 18 Months as an Entrepreneur

Do you ever feel like you’re faking it in your business, like one day everyone will realise you don’t know what you’re doing? That feeling has a name: imposter syndrome. And trust me, you’re not alone...

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From Self-Doubt to Self-Trust and Rewiring the Good Girl Brain

In a world where achievement often feels like the key to overcoming self-doubt, Julie Vander Meulen explores the deeper roots of self-questioning in her article, From Self-Doubt to Self-Trust: Rewiring...

Confidence & self-love

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Grace, Self-Love and Transforming the World

Being able to support speakers in using their voices for impact is a privilege and I had the pleasure of sitting down with Founder of The Awakening Journey, Sandy Shum, to discuss why our inner work...

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Success Grows From Consistency – 7 Lessons That Built My Self-Respect and My Success

I have spent my entire adult life building things that matter. Companies, communities, brands, and a life centered on purpose. People often see the outcomes but not the consistency, boundaries, and...

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Reclaim Your Self-Worth in 2026 – The 5-Point Manifesto to Live by Choice, Not by Default

Stop right there. Before you download another planner or commit to another goal that promises external fulfilment, ask yourself one crucial question, "Am I living this life by my own design, or by someone...

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Emotional Intelligence – Do We Really Understand It?

I tend to write about whatever shows up in life, in conversations, in passing moments, and often in sessions with my clients. Emotional intelligence is one of those ideas that’s been floating around...

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Lighting the Way – The Voice of the Divine Feminine Is Fire

There is a moment in every woman’s awakening when her voice no longer trembles. It doesn’t matter if she’s whispering prayers in the dark, speaking truth in a boardroom, or roaring her pain into the winds...

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What Trauma Taught Me About Love

I believed trauma therapy would teach me how to stop reacting so strongly. How to stop taking everything in. How to become a more “manageable” person. Instead, I saw something completely different.

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The Healing Power of Self-Reflection – How Looking Inward Transforms Emotional Patterns

Most people move through life reacting, not reflecting. We respond to triggers, repeat familiar patterns, and carry wounds that have never been fully named. For years, I lived inside those cycles...

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The Science of Confidence – Why Most People Build It Backwards (And How To Fix It)

Confidence is one of the most misunderstood parts of performance. Many people believe it’s something you feel, something that shows up when everything is going well. But confidence isn’t a personality...

Emotions

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3 Hidden Money Blocks That Keep You Stuck and How to Clear Them

Most people believe money problems are solved with better strategies, higher income, or smarter investments. Yet, year after year, many capable, intelligent professionals find themselves stuck in the...

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The Art of Letting Go – How Your Nervous System Learns to Release What No Longer Serves You

Your body knows. Even when your mind keeps telling you, “I’m fine,” your nervous system is holding onto what you’ve been pretending to release all year. The unfinished conversations. The patterns...

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Living in the Moment – Really?

Whether it’s the loss of a job, a relationship, a friendship, or the death of someone we love, life has a way of reminding us that it’s precious and should never be taken for granted. And yet, once the...

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From Wishing to Watching – The Gift We Really Need This Season

As the holidays approach, many of us find ourselves wishing for things to feel a certain way. We wish for more peace. We wish for more connection. We wish for rest, magic, meaning, and moments that...

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Paradox-Generated Figures as Jungian 'Counterterms' in Dark

Dark (Netflix, 2017-2020) is a German sci-fi drama about a missing child that unfolds into a labyrinth of time travel, interlocked families, and causal loops where the past and future continually create each other.

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When Life Turns – The Emotional Cycles of Our Inner Seasons

If there’s one consistency that life will offer us, it’s that life is very inconsistent. The inconsistency and surprises bring up many emotions along the way as energy moves through the body. As the energy moves...

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The Calm Illusion – How to Stay Zen in a Dysregulated World

You scroll your feed and feel your chest tighten with the day’s headlines. Another crisis, another opinion war. You walk into work already overstimulated, and someone tells you to “calm down.”

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Why One Single Smile Can Shift Your Entire Day

“How can you be so happy?” It’s a question I’ve been asked more times than I can count. A question filled with curiosity, confusion, or even disbelief whenever someone hears my story, that I lost both...

Spirituality

Resilience

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Why Courage Is Vital To Resilience

Courage is an innate human quality that we access when we least expect it, often when we appear to be at our weakest. In a sudden crisis, it can rush in out of nowhere in the form of risking our own...

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Permission vs. Non-Negotiable – The Inner Line That Defines Leadership, Resilience, and Legacy

In moments of transition, many people believe they are waiting for clarity. They are simply waiting for permission to speak, act, make different choices, or trust their own instincts. This waiting often...

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A Different Kind of Strong – What the Pause Teaches You

There are seasons in life when your carefully planned calendar gets replaced with hospital chairs, unexpected decisions, and the kind of silence that forces you to breathe differently.

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When Your Job Shakes, You Don’t Have To

In a world of restructures, “strategic realignments” and never-ending change, it’s no surprise that so many high-achieving professionals feel like the ground beneath them is never fully stable.

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Adversity – More Weather Than Storm

We tend to picture adversity as a major event. The big hit, the interruption that demands all of our attention and energy. Sometimes it is exactly that, sharp, heavy, inescapable. But that is only...

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Science & the Sacred Feminine – How Trauma and Healing Live Inside the Body

For decades, trauma research has focused on how the body stores pain: the bracing of muscles, the vigilance of the nervous system, the collapse of breath when safety is uncertain. All of this is true and...

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The Miracles That Power Resilience

Growing up Roman Catholic, the belief in the possibility of miracles was ingrained in me since I was a child, with stories of Jesus healing the sick and disabled, and the many marvels attributed to...

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Finish What You Started – The Confidence to Complete What You Were Called to Begin

There’s a quiet ache that lives in every heart-centered woman entrepreneur, the gap between what we envisioned and what we’ve actually finished. You know that half-written program, the course outline...

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Why Some People Fear Wasting Their Life More Than Failing

Have you ever felt a quiet dread underneath your choices, not fear of failure, but fear that none of it will matter? Maybe you have hesitated to fully commit, not because you do not care, but because...

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What Is Kundalini Energy and How Does It Awaken Your Life Force

Kundalini energy is not a new age concept. It is very ancient in its roots. Working with Kundalini energy is a journey of self-discovery and empowerment.

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How to Use Past-Life Regression to Uncover and Resolve Emotional Blocks

There is an ancient wisdom inside you that quietly remembers far more than your conscious mind ever could. It remembers the moments when you chose love and the moments when fear felt overwhelming.

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How-To – Shamanic Journeying for Spiritual Connection

Welcome, my wonderful readers, to my fifth article, part three of my articles on this ancient spiritual practice called shamanism. If you haven’t read the first article about preparing for a soul...

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Understanding the Awakening Beneath the Chaos

We are awakening from the illusion within the illusion, the game within the game. The third density is a school, and just as school is an illusion of the greater world outside its walls, Earth school is...

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Beyond the Six Human Needs – An Energy Intelligence Model of Core Energetic Fulfillment

Traditional psychological models, such as Tony Robbins’ Six Human Needs framework, identify the universal drivers that shape human behavior: certainty, variety, significance, love and connection, growth...

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The Gift 7 – The Coordinates of Your Remembering

Welcome to The Gift Shoppe, a sacred space of remembrance. Each offering is a frequency, a revelation, a soul whisper wrapped in divine timing. This is gift 7: The coordinates of your remembering.

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The Silent Revolution – Why Millions Are Turning Inward to Heal

Across the world, a quiet yet profound shift is unfolding. Millions of people are turning inward, not in search of quick fixes or surface-level self-improvement, but in pursuit of something deeper and more...

Personal Development

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It's You Versus You

In today's world, the greatest battle we often face is not against others, but against ourselves. The struggle of "You Versus You" is born from a disconnection between our true selves and the roles we...

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Why Your Current Reality Is Just Old News and How to Rewrite It

You're not stuck with the life you have. What you see around you right now, the struggles, the limitations, the circumstances, is merely the echo of yesterday's assumptions. Most people spend...

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Become the Peace – The Inner Work That Changes Everything

Peace is often mistaken for silence, avoidance, agreement, or the absence of conflict. It is frequently confused with staying calm on the surface while suppressing the truth underneath or with spiritual...

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The Ripple Effect – Why Your Smallest Decisions Hold the Biggest Power

We often think transformation begins with grand gestures, the perfect job offer, the big investor, the breakthrough moment, the opportunity that finally validates the months or years of waiting.

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It’s Okay Not to Be Okay – Why Struggling Doesn’t Mean Failing

In a world that constantly celebrates happiness, strength, and success, admitting that we are not okay can feel like an act of rebellion. From social media feeds filled with smiling faces to motivational...

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Optimize Your Internal System – A New Way to Understand Burnout

Burnout isn’t a badge of honor. It isn’t weakness. And it isn’t your identity. It’s simply a signal that your internal systems are asking for a reset.

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Why Being Authentic Feels So Hard and What Therapy Gets Wrong About It?

Authenticity is presented as something empowering, a personal choice, a mindset, even a skill we can practise. We are repeatedly told to “be ourselves,” speak our truth, and stop hiding who we...

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From Survival to Soul Alignment

For 17 years, I endured a career that never truly felt like my own. What began as a compromise slowly became a life of quiet suffering until my body, circumstances, and the Universe itself forced me to listen.

Productivity

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Why AI Will Not Fix the Global Productivity Crisis, and What Will

When I lived in Sydney, one of my favourite times of the year was the Sydney Writers Festival. Walsh Bay is a stunning location, and the atmosphere is electric. Rooms hum with both free and paid...

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10 Tips for Dealing with Brain Fog at Work

For decades, menopause has been largely ignored or treated as a private matter. A stage of life hidden behind closed doors, spoken about in whispers, if at all. Yet it’s something that will affect half...

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Why Change Feels Hard for Busy Working Women and How to Break the Cycle for Good

Change is something most women desire, including healthier routines, better focus, more balance, deeper confidence, or simply more time for themselves. Yet even with strong intentions...

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8 Signs Your Strategic Plan Is Just Fancy Procrastination (And What To Do Instead)

High-achieving women don’t stall because they’re unmotivated. They stall because they’ve been conditioned to plan their way into safety instead of trusting their way into action. If you’re the type...

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Why Perfectionists Never Feel Good Enough

Perfectionists often chase flawless results, yet often still feel like they’re never enough. From childhood praise to professional pressure, perfectionism quietly shapes our nervous system, creativity, and sense of worth.

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Agile and CI/CD for 2-Person Teams – Shipping Weekly Without Burning Out

When your entire product team fits into one video call, rhythm becomes your survival strategy. This article explores how two-person teams can thrive using Agile and CI/CD principles, focusing on steady...

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Is Time Real? Become a Time Surfer and Find Out

Do you ever feel like you're drowning in deadlines, perpetually behind, and running on a treadmill that's going nowhere fast? Yeah, me too… For the longest time, I tried to make time very real! But what if time isn’t the enemy...

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The 5x5 Productivity Formula – A Neuroscience-Backed Path to Peak Performance

Most people think productivity means cramming more tasks into already packed schedules. The endless to-do lists, color-coded planners, and late-night hustle may create the illusion of progress, but neuroscience...

Coaching

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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...

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What Happened to Personal Excellence? And How We Bring it Back

Personal excellence used to be the baseline standard in work and life. Yet, over the years, expectations have lowered, and mediocrity has become more common. In this article, Brittney Hall explores why...

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Unharvested Lessons on Patience, Purpose, and Coaching

I sat down to write something professional about my coaching approach. Instead, I’m going to tell you about digging clay and having tantrums in a Portuguese forest. Bear with me. A couple of...

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The Success of a Client – The Polymerization of Personal Training & Nutrition

This article explores the transformative power of combining personal training and nutrition, focusing on how these elements can reverse chronic health issues and improve overall well-being. Through...

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Your Voice Reveals Everything, Master it and Transform Your Influence

Most people think confidence lives in the words they speak, yet it lives in the body long before the voice ever opens, in the breath, the posture, and the hidden micro-signals that tell an entire room...

Goal Setting

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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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Transform Your Life With Feng Shui Annual Strategy

Every year carries its rhythm. Some years open doors with ease, while others test patience and resilience. The difference is not random, it is written in the shifting patterns of energy that move...

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How to Use Dopamine and Time Horizons to Stay Motivated When Everything Feels Hard

Most people think motivation is about willpower, discipline, or inspiration. But the real driver of sustained motivation is far more biological and far more practical. By understanding how dopamine...

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The Clarity Effect – Why Most People Never Transform and How to Break the Cycle

Every January, millions of people decide they’re finally going to change their lives. They commit to better habits, new goals, new standards, new promises, and by March, 92% of them have already stopped.

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The Quality of Ambition & Dreams Is Becoming Extinct Before They Can Get off the Ground

When we think about dreams, we tend to view them as a means to reach a goal or achieve a type of success, but we rarely consider them a mission. We may even call the dreams we have for ourselves...

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Mastering the Art of Setting Clear Goals

When I first began working with startups and mentoring young people nearly two decades ago, I realized that one of the biggest hurdles they face when setting goals is clearly defining what they want to...

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Living with Intention – Learn to Slow Down

In our modern society, we are busy. In fact, this has become a favourite phrase, “I’m just so busy,” as if it were a badge of validation that one has somewhere to be. We use this to excuse ourselves from everything...

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