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Kirsten Johansen
Mar 27, 20241 min read
Stick with It and Quit Promptly: Knowing When to Persevere or Move On
This week, we explore gaining comfort with discomfort so that we can investigate the source and determine whether to stick with it or...
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Kirsten Johansen
Mar 27, 20241 min read
The Art of Detachment: The Benefits of Caring Less
Release your past. Own your present. Trust your future.
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Kirsten Johansen
Mar 19, 20242 min read
The power to get unstuck might be in your feet!
Believing that travel feeds the soul and grows the heart and mind, Kelly embarked on a two-year travel sabbatical...
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Kirsten Johansen
Mar 19, 20241 min read
There’s Nothing Wrong with the Way You Look
Appearance standards are unrealistic, ever-changing, and, most importantly..made up!
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Kirsten Johansen
Mar 19, 20241 min read
How to Navigate the Tunnel of Insomnia and Get a Good Night's Sleep
Tunnels are useful. They get us from point A to point B when there is no other way or when going the long way around might cause us to...
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Kirsten Johansen
Mar 17, 20241 min read
Living Well at 80!
Karen Johansen is spry, active, vivacious, social, and fully engaged in life. She has accepted and navigated life's challenges with...
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Kirsten Johansen
Mar 17, 20241 min read
Discovering Your Inherent Value: A Guide to Welcoming Worthiness into Your Life
Worthiness: the quality of being good enough and deserving attention and respect. From whom? From YOU! Pay yourself first when it comes...
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Kirsten Johansen
Mar 17, 20241 min read
Unleashing the Power Within: How to Awaken the Divine Feminine
What does it really mean to awaken the divine feminine? Growing up in a hypermasculine culture can result in the denial of our feminine...
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Kirsten Johansen
Mar 17, 20242 min read
Finding Fulfillment: Balancing Work, Purpose, and Happiness
Your skills, abilities, education, job, career, business, passion, calling, and dreams. Many humans share the desire to engage in joyful,...
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Kirsten Johansen
Mar 16, 20241 min read
Unmasking the Unseen: How Anesthesia Behaviors Can Amplify Suffering
Anesthesia creates an insensitivity to pain. When it wears off, if the source of the pain is still active, you hurt. Anesthesia behaviors...
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Kirsten Johansen
Mar 16, 20241 min read
Is it time to give up your grudge? The power is in your hands.
When you hold resentment, you are re-feeling and re-experiencing a wound caused by treatment that feels unjust, unfair, and just plain...
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Kirsten Johansen
Mar 16, 20241 min read
Uncovering Your Purpose: How Every Choice Shapes Your Journey
Identify your life purposes, live them, and organize your life around them by developing daily practices to support your life purpose...
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Kirsten Johansen
Mar 16, 20242 min read
Exploring the Mind-Body Connection: Nurturing a Healthy Relationship with Food
Let's talk about FOOD! It is possible to have a balanced, harmonious relationship with food that supports your health and well-being. It...
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Kirsten Johansen
Mar 5, 20242 min read
Embracing Your Body: Building a Positive and Supportive Relationship with Yourself
"One of the greatest sources of suffering endured by the human body is the hatred heaped upon it by the voices in our heads." -Kirsten...
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Kirsten Johansen
Mar 5, 20241 min read
Using Your Challenges as Opportunities to Practice
Your challenges can provide unique opportunities for immersive practice. Our work to develop unconditional love, acceptance, and...
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Kirsten Johansen
Mar 5, 20242 min read
The Power of Healing: Evolving Beyond Socially Contracted Wounds
“What do you believe about White men?” This one question asked discerningly during an executive diversity training with counselor, coach,...
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Kirsten Johansen
Mar 5, 20242 min read
Understanding Compassion Fatigue: How to Prevent a Life-Threatening Result
Do you hurt when others hurt? Do you feel sympathy and concern for the misfortunes and suffering of others? Are you compelled to use your...
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Kirsten Johansen
Mar 5, 20241 min read
The Benefits of Unschooling: A Personal Journey and Perspective
Preschool, kindergarten, elementary school, middle school, high school. For many of us, these are a given. The process by which we are...
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Kirsten Johansen
Mar 5, 20241 min read
Unveiling the Reality Behind "The Idealized Image": How to Embrace Authenticity
We learn early in life that we must live up to and perform to certain standards to be considered intelligent, successful, attractive, and...
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Kirsten Johansen
Feb 26, 20242 min read
How to Overcome Negative Self-Talk: Conversations with Your Inner Critic
Does your Inner Critic have a lot to say? You’re not alone! Your Inner Critic takes its job seriously and shows up to remind you that...
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