🌟 Welcome to Week 5 of the Change Reflection Series  ❤️ A space where your heart and your mind can connect. Last week we looked at different types of pain, and how the internal maps we’ve developed over time—shaped by past experiences—can influence our future. This week we’re working on embracing reality to ignite urgency and motivation. Reality isn’t always objective—our perceptions shape it. We’ll reflect on what’s keeping us stuck and explore how confronting reality can c

🌟 Welcome to Week 5 of the Change Reflection Series  ❤️ A space where your heart and your mind can connect. Yesterday, we introduced the power of facing reality and the surprising benefits of letting go of false hope. Today, we’ll explore how past experiences can offer valuable insights to help us face challenges and break free from feeling stuck. Reality, shaped by our experiences and perceptions, can feel subjective. But confronting “real” reality is a powerful catalyst fo

🌟 Welcome to Week 5 of the Change Reflection Series  ❤️ A space where your heart and your mind can connect. Yesterday, we explored how past experiences can guide us. Today, we’re reflecting on the surprising idea that sometimes, hopelessness can be a good thing. While hope is often a source of strength, false hope can hold us back—keeping us clinging to something unlikely to work and draining our energy. True progress comes when we embrace good hopelessness , letting go of w

🌟 Welcome to Week 5 of the Change Reflection Series  ❤️ A space where your heart and your mind can connect. Yesterday, we explored how hopelessness can sometimes open the door to progress. Today, we’ll reflect on the role of the past as a predictor of the future. The past often provides valuable insights into what lies ahead. Think about a situation or relationship in your life that’s been troubling you: 🌟 If nothing changes, what will it look like a year from now? If you s

🌟 Welcome to Week 5 of the Change Reflection Series  ❤️ A space where your heart and your mind can connect. Yesterday, we examined the past as a predictor of future outcomes. Today, we’ll explore what can provide us with real hope that someone  will change. Hoping for someone to change is emotionally taxing. How do we know if there’s real hope? Dr. Henry Cloud outlines nine key signs, including involvement in a proven change process, motivation, support systems, and evidence

🌟 Happy New Year, and welcome to Week 4 of the Change Reflection Series  ❤️ A space where your heart and your mind can connect. In this week’s Change Reflection series, we’re diving into the powerful topic of pain and how it shapes our lives. Last week, we explored the idea of embracing endings as a natural and necessary part of life. By normalizing endings, we reduce the brain’s instinct to see them as threats, making it easier to step into new beginnings. Building on that

🌟 Welcome to Week 4 of the Change Reflection Series ❤️ A space where your heart and your mind can connect.  This week, we’re reflecting on the ways pain—both productive and unproductive—shapes our lives and influences our ability to grow. Sometimes we adapt so deeply to unproductive pain that it starts to feel normal, keeping us stuck in patterns that no longer serve us. ✨ But here’s the good news: with effort and focus, we can rewire our brains to break free and move forwar

🌟 Welcome to Week 4 of the Change Reflection Series ❤️ A space where your heart and your mind can connect.  This week, we’re reflecting on the ways pain—both productive and unproductive—shapes our lives and influences our ability to grow. Sometimes we adapt so deeply to unproductive pain that it starts to feel normal, keeping us stuck in patterns that no longer serve us. Pain is meant to signal that something’s wrong, but when ignored or accepted as the new normal, it can ho

🌟 Welcome to Week 4 of the Change Reflection Series ❤️ A space where your heart and your mind can connect.  This week, we’re reflecting on the ways pain—both productive and unproductive—shapes our lives and influences our ability to grow. Yesterday, we reflected on whether there’s any pain in our lives that keeps us stuck. Over the next two days, we’ll shift our focus to the internal maps and past experiences that shape our decisions and beliefs. 📍 Sometimes, what keeps us

🌟 Welcome to Week 4 of the Change Reflection Series ❤️ A space where your heart and your mind can connect.  Happy Friday! 🎉 We’ve reached the final day of this week’s journey reflecting how pain—both productive and unproductive, and our internal maps and past experiences shape our lives and influences our ability to grow. 📍 Our internal maps, shaped by painful past endings, often lead us to tolerate pain or avoid change. By understanding how these maps keep us stuck, we ca

🌟 Welcome to Week 3 of the Change Reflection Series  ❤️ A space where your heart and your mind can connect. Last week, we began exploring the idea of pruning—letting go of what no longer serves us—so that, like a well-tended rose bush, our lives can truly flourish. 🌹 This week, we’re working on normalizing endings as a natural and necessary part of life, drawing inspiration from Chapter 3 of Dr. Henry Cloud’s book, Necessary Endings. By embracing endings, we allow them to b

🌟 Welcome to Week 3 of the Change Reflection Series ❤️ A space where your heart and your mind can connect.  This week, we’re focusing on rewiring our brains to see endings as a natural part of life—something to embrace, not fear. In nature, seasons come and go. For spring to begin, winter must end. The same is true for our lives—new beginnings often require letting go of something else. Take a moment to reflect: 💭 What is your heart’s response to the idea that endings are n

🌟 Welcome to Week 3 of the Change Reflection Series ❤️ A space where your heart and your mind can connect.  This week, we’re working on rewiring our brains to see endings as a natural and necessary part of life—something to accept, not fear or avoid. Yesterday, we took our first step by reflecting on seasons and life cycles, observing how endings make way for new beginnings. Building on that, today’s reflections invite us to look inward: 💭 What endings are you resisting in

🌟 Welcome to Week 3 of the Change Reflection Series ❤️ A space where your heart and your mind can connect.  This week, we’ve been on a journey to make endings a familiar and natural part of our lives—so familiar, in fact, that our brains no longer see them as threats. Over the past couple of days, we’ve reflected on the concept of seasons, accepting that endings are an essential part of life’s natural rhythms. Today, we’re taking the next step in this journey by revisiting a

🌟 Welcome to Week 3 of the Change Reflection Series ❤️ A space where your heart and your mind can connect.  Happy Friday! Today marks the last day of our reflection for both the week and the year before the holiday season. This week, we’ve been on a journey of acceptance as part of normalizing endings in our lives: ✨ Accepting that seasons and life cycles are a natural part of living. ✨ Accepting that our lives produce more opportunities, relationships, and commitments than

🌟 Welcome to Week 2 of the Change Reflection Series  ❤️ A space where your heart can catch up with your mind. Last week, we took our first steps toward embracing change.   This week, we’re exploring the idea that our lives, much like a thriving rosebush, often produce more growth than we can sustain. 🌹 To truly flourish, we must prune. Pruning means letting go of: Things that no longer serve us. Things that are “good” but are taking up space for something great. This isn’t

🌟 Welcome to Week 2 of the Change Reflection Series ❤️ A space where your heart can catch up with your mind. 🌟 Today, we’re starting our journey into the practice of pruning—letting go of what holds us back so we can grow and thrive. 🌱 It’s neither an easy nor a quick process, so we’re starting with a simple but powerful question to ease our hearts and minds into the idea: 💭 How does the idea of pruning make you feel? 🌱 ❤️ Take a moment and let your heart speak to you. �

🌟 Welcome to Week 2 of the Change Reflection Series ❤️ A space where your heart can catch up with your mind. Yesterday, we began exploring pruning by reflecting on how the idea makes us feel. Today, we’re taking it a step further, diving into the different types of pruning that apply not only to plants but also to our lives. In his book Necessary Endings,  Dr. Henry Cloud highlights three categories of branches we may need to prune: 🌿 Healthy branches  that are good but not

🌟 Welcome to Week 2 of the Change Reflection Series ❤️ A space where your heart can catch up with your mind. We're still working on getting used to the idea of pruning in our lives. 🌹 As we’ve discussed, our lives often produce more growth than we can sustain. To complicate things further, our resources—time, energy, finances, talent, and emotions—are all finite. To allow our lives to truly flourish, something has to go. But where to begin? Let’s try a visualization exercis

Welcome back to Week 1 of the Change Reflection Series ❤️ A space where your heart can catch up with your mind. ❤️ Happy Friday! 🎉 We’ve reached the final day of this week’s journey into the concept of pruning our lives. Yesterday’s reflection was a big one. I’ll admit—it wasn’t just one question; it was a cluster of deeply related, and yes, hard  questions. So today, let’s take more time to sit with those same reflections. Sometimes, the deeper insights come when we revisit