Energy Vampires: How to Identify and Deal With Them
Halloween’s around the corner, which makes this the perfect time of the year to blog about how to identify, deal with, and protect yourself from energy vampires. We like to believe that vampires don’t exist, and they don’t in theory. But energy vampires do exist, and if you don’t know how to identify, deal with, and protect yourself from them they’ll suck the life force right out of you. I love a good vampire movie and series. My favorite modern vampire series are CW’s Vampire Diaries and The Originals, a Vampire Diaries spinoff (No one’s paying me to say this but if you’re interested, both series are available on NETFLIX).…
Why Are We So Negative: It’s an Ancestral Gene Thing
Have you ever asked yourself why we’re so negative? Would you believe me if I said that it’s an ancestral gene thing? Trust me, you want to stay with me until the end of this post. If you tend to gravitate to negative thinking, it’ll make a whole lot of sense to you after you read all of the ways through to the end. Working with people, women, in particular, I get a lot of questions regarding why it is that we can receive 99 compliments, but focus mostly on the one negative thing someone says about our appearance, work, speeches, writing, etc. Is it lack of self-confidence or low-esteem? …
When Loving You Means Learning to Love You
When Loving You Means Learning to Love You wasn’t my blog topic for this week. I was going to write about narcissistic men and their crazy foolishness, but then a good friend of mine called and we started talking about haircuts. She told me that she hasn’t had a sassy, sexy haircut in over two decades because of a negative comment someone close to her made about her last haircut. That negative words could impact a woman’s decision to do something to improve herself that brought her joy annoyed the hell out of me. It made me think about women and self-love, and the fact that most of us don’t…
