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Understanding Coaching: The Hunch

If you’ve ever worked with a coach, you might’ve heard the notorious phrase, “I have a hunch, may I share it with you?” or perhaps a variation of it. This is one way a coach shares something they are observing, and it is usually followed by an invitation to confirm

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Feeling Frozen? Do Nothing

When something changes the way we view ourselves (aka we face an identity shift), many of us say things like “I need to get it together.” At the same time, we feel less certain of ourselves, we feel like we’re lacking direction and clarity. And although we want to move

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Our Harshness & Negative Self-Talk is Hurting Us

When I started Self Love Atlas, I did it because I noticed a harshness: a harshness in the way we talk to ourselves and the way we treat our bodies. This harshness exists in our minds, and it appears as a whole lot of “shoulds” and “shouldn’ts.”  We think to

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Redefining Success: How to Make Your Own Success Metrics

Over the last week, I’ve been reading “A New Earth” by Eckhart Tolle. And while every page of that book is overflowing with wisdom, there was one passage about how we measure success that really caught my attention.  Eckhart writes,  “Don’t let a mad world tell you that success is

Money Doesn’t Love You Back

Having a relationship with money is nothing like having a relationship with a real person. But if left unchecked, a relationship with money can start to negatively impact the other relationships in our lives (without us even realizing it!). In this post, we’ll discuss a boundary that needs to be

Self-Care Made Simple

Although self-care is becoming far more popular in recent years, there’s still some negative stigma associated with doing things for ourselves. This is a huge problem, because if we can’t view caring for ourselves in a positive light, chances are we will fail to maintain our health and well-being to

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One Simple Mindset Trick to Do More and Stress Less

We say “I need to…” when something has been assigned at work or school. We say “I need to…” when we have chores that are overdo. And we say “I need to…” when we’re avoiding the next thing on our to-do list. Usually when we use this language, we’re referring to

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When Someone Fails to Meet Your Expectations

At times, the people in your life will fail to meet your expectations. Maybe they’ll show up late to a date, maybe they won’t wash their dishes, or maybe they won’t say thank you after you gave them a gift. When our expectations aren’t met, it’s frustrating, disappointing, and sometimes

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How to Stop Feeling “Behind”

So many of us feel like we’re behind in our lives. We glance around and see numerous examples of people achieving the things we want to achieve. Maybe we’re comparing ourselves to someone who has more financial stability than us. Maybe they have a skill we want to cultivate, a

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Choose Your Friends, Change Your Life

I’ve been told “surround yourself with good people” more times than I can count, but doing this is easier said than done. While most of us know that choosing good people to keep close in our lives is beneficial, many of us don’t truly understand the full extent to which