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CLB 028: How to Meditate Effortlessly Even if You’ve Never Meditated Before
Do you have a desire to learn how to meditate effortlessly? A question I often receive from clients and listeners of the podcast is, “How do I meditate?” I think we’re all pretty familiar with the benefits of meditation so I’m not going to use this time to go over that… the issue seems more…
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CLB 027: How to Make Resolutions Actually Stick
Do you set New Year’s resolutions? Do you know how to make resolutions so that they actually stick? I know some people laugh off the idea of setting resolutions and I don’t blame them… I think the statistic is that by the end of January something like 92% of resolutions have already failed. Doesn’t exactly…
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CLB 026: Loneliness Over the Holidays
Do you experience loneliness over the holidays? It’s that season again. Even if you don’t celebrate Christmas it’s hard not be touched in some way by the festivities and sentiment of the season. I mean we’re inundated with it – Christmas music playing on the radio and in the department stores, Christmas lights hung on…
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CLB 025: Mandela’s Example
I often find myself incorporating Nelson Mandela’s story and how he approached life, his attitude, into the Calm Living Blueprint because I think it offers a wonderful example of taking committed action even in the face of fear, pain and discomfort. So that’s what I want to examine in this podcast episode – five lessons…
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CLB 024: Is It Ever Too Late?
Is it ever too late? The other day one of my clients said, “Maybe it’s too late for me.” She felt defeated, like things had never gone right for her and she felt hopeless that things would ever go right for her. Now, this wasn’t a one-time thought. This particular person had this thought before.…
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CLB 023: The Seeds of Calm in Anxiety
What do I mean by the seeds of calm lie in anxiety? Well… the idea for today’s podcast episode came to me as I was reflecting on how to better help people open up and make space for feelings of anxiety rather than continuing to struggle with them. That’s something we’ve talked about in previous…
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CLB 022: How to Stop Ruminating and Gain Meaning from Painful Memories
Ever wonder how to stop ruminating? Have you ever gotten stuck thinking about a past trauma or negative event, a problem or really any kind of setback… over and over again… you just can’t stop thinking about it… like a hamster running in a hamster wheel in his cage your thoughts just seem to run…
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CLB 021: How to Stop Blushing and Relax
Have you ever blushed? Of course you have. We all blush. There’s nothing wrong with blushing however blushing can become a concern when we feel anxious about blushing. We’re afraid of blushing or when we blush we get anxious about blushing and that just further adds to our overall anxiety. So this episode is devoted…
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CLB 020: How to Sleep Like A Baby Even if You Have Anxiety Part II
So, how have you been sleeping? What changes have you made since the last episode to improve your sleep? In episode 19 we tackled the environmental and behavioural factors that can affect our sleep and what we can do to overcome them and improve upon them to optimize our sleep. In this episode we’re going…
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CLB 019: How to Sleep Like a Baby Even if You Have Anxiety
Do you sleep like a baby? Or… Have you ever found yourself lying in bed, staring at the ceiling and wanting to scream out in frustration because you just can’t fall asleep? You peak at your alarm clock out of the corner of your eye and it reads 3 o’clock! 3 in the freaking morning……