The time has come to stop wasting your heart and time in anger and obsession – re-living the pain of relationships past. The time has come to put your love and time into learning from your mistakes – so you can successfully find a partner who is far more right for you!
Can you resist the siren call of immediate gratification – when it comes to food, love, lust, money, Facebook, texting etc? Chances are if you’re having a problem right now in your life, it’s due to your needing to practice better impulse control. Read on…
A lot of people love to do affirmations first thing in the morning – to keep themselves feeling peppy and positive.
I myself have some favorite go-to affirmations which I love. But…I gotta say, sometimes I’ve noticed that affirmations just don’t work. Especially if I’m feeling particularly curmudgeon-y – which is when I need the mental and emotional support the most.
Stop the “negative loop” of self-defeating self-stories. Swap feeling like you’re wearing a “KICK ME” sign – to feeling like you’re wearing a “KICK ASS” sign!
“Hold the vision, Drop the excuses. Swerve around obstacles. trust the process” Karen Salmansohn
I have a wide range of “Resiliency Tools” – which I share throughout my various books. But for this particular essay, I’m sharing 6 empowering phrases I believe parents should repeat as often as possible– so as to bolster their kids’ bounce-back abilities!
I endured a huge betrayal from an unlikely place – a younger woman whom I was close friends with and mentored for many years. When we first met, she was trying to write and sell a book – to no avail. Eventually, I gave her an idea for a book – then helped her to write the proposal – asking for no upfront money – just a small 10% back end commission – should the book sell. She enthusiastically agreed – thanking me profusely for not charging her upfront for my time. She had a lawyer draw up papers – which we each signed.
Fear, regret and resentment are not only hostage-takers – they’re brain-washers — whispering how this is the one and only version of life which you get – yet providing you a tiny window for which to see the light of a larger, happiness shining within reach.
I love yoga. If you’ve been following my blog, then you know I’m now joyously studying to be a yoga teacher at Ishta Yoga. Although I’ve always loved yoga, there have been times I’ve let my yoga mat collect dust in the closet (aka: after my son was born ). I didn’t think I had time to do yoga.
The ironic truth: The more you think you don’t have time for yoga, the more you need to take time to do yoga. As Ganga White says, “Yoga doesn’t take time. It gives time.”
If you’re presently caught up in telling stories about the toxic misbehaviors of someone – the time has come to stop getting caught up in name-calling, contempt and blame.
Ban, Delete, Shred, Obliterate the words “I’m Not Good Enough” Karen Salmansohn
“There’s truly nothing more fullfilling and thrilling than discovering yourself to be a stronger person than you ever dreamed yourself capable of being” Karen Salmansohn
If you have time to whine and complain then you have time to do something about it ~ Karen Salmansohn
Learn about Bertrand Russel’s “ZEST”… Do you regularly appreciate the beauty in everyday moments? Are you living with an awakened sense of all your senses, and appreciating all you discover?
Do you sometimes find yourself comparing your “outsides” to other people’s “outsides”? Learn some helpful antidotes to Poison Envy…
Going through a challenging time? Fight through the urge to hide away and instead be with those who love and support you!
I have a wait problem. I hate to wait. When I want something, I want it NOW. My wait problem also applies to my need to lose weight problem. When I want to lose weight, I want to lose it NOW. But how?
Courageous actions tend to create happy emotions. When you risk and do things outside your norm, you tend to feel more alive — more liberated – and this leads to more happiness in general.
You know that expression, “The more things change, the more they stay the same?” Well, Aristotle said it first. In his own particular words and way. Aristotle(one of my personal favorite philosophers)believed that the universe is in a state of constant motion – always changing, always evolving.
My father, Rubin Salmansohn, passed away 4 years ago, in the month of August. On the day he passed, my mother found a post-marked envelope in my dad’s bedroom bureau drawer – the date of which revealed that this was something I had mailed to my dad when I was still in college.