Why do we believe the negative stories that our ego offers up every time life doesn’t go as we expect or desire? Stories like: ‘I’m not enough; There is something wrong with me; I can’t do it’. These inner stories are not true, and they generate the negative feelings we have about ourselves, others and the world.  Here is the fascinating part - when we were young, these stories served a critical purpose for many of us…

Why does it feel like the world around us is getting worse? Politically, economically, environmentally, socially, so much is shifting and changing. What if the crumbling of these systems simply reflects the old breaking down while the new is emerging…

How do we end up saying yes to everything and then never have enough time to get it all done? This is a common experience in most corporations these days with shrinking budgets and fewer staff to meet all the expectations required for growth ‘…’

What is it that has us give our inner authority away to others? Instead of focusing on what is best for us, why do we seek out the answers/validation/approval from others assuming they know better than we do‘…’

Humans are judgment machines. We do it unconsciously all day every day in the background of our mind‘…’

What is it that allows others to invalidate our experience? When we say we feel sad and are told we should be happy and/or grateful. When we say what we want, and we are told to want something different. When we act on behalf of our own self-care and are made bad or wrong by those around us‘…’

Why do we continue to feel like victims in certain situations and with certain people? Can others make us feel this way, or is it something about us that generates our internal victim experience? Read more to explore where you stand in the Victim/ Accountability loop...

Why is it that we still react like a child to certain situations and people? Why do we still find ourselves fighting back in defense, avoiding or hiding away, or freezing until it’s over like we did as a child? These strong reactions are driven by the unexpressed emotions of our inner-child. Every time our external environment is similar to the environment we experienced in past trauma, our inner child is ‘triggered’ and all of the trapped and unexpressed emotions become ‘fuel’ for our strong reaction to the present-moment experience…

Why do we allow others to give us their negative attention & energy? Why do we keep coming back for more of their criticism, their complaints, their dissatisfaction, and their disappointment even when it doesn’t feel good to us?‘…’

Why do we take what others think, say or do so personally? What is it about us and our belief system that interprets someone else’s actions (or inactions) as a judgement about us? When the boss rolls their eyes, we can see that they are discounting what is being said, yet when we take it personally, we may feel that WE have been discounted, not just the information we are sharing…

Why don’t we use both sides of our brains equally? When did we decide the left side was better than the right? Many of us have heard something about the difference between our left and right brain and how they work and what they are useful for.

Why do we rarely get what we want from others, even when we give our all? What if we could never count on getting what we wanted from others? How would that have us feel...

What has us feel powerless in our efforts to influence others? How can we balance the power between us in key relationships to create the greatest common ground and the greatest common good…

For years, I never felt like I had enough time. I would watch anxiously as my calendar filled up with more than I had time to do. I would feel exhausted with the heavy responsibility that weighed on my mind about getting it all done…

What if the things that make us so mad keep us from accessing compassion? Compassion for ourselves and others‘…’

What is the point of balancing our energy? Does it really matter in our day to day lives, or is this only important for those looking to evolve or expand their human consciousness‘…’

What if we woke up to the fact that we are co-creating our own reality? Now is the time of the great awakening and this means ‘all that is hidden shall be revealed’…’

How many experiences have you put on hold waiting for others to be ready? Ready to support you, ready to leave, ready to decide, ready to do the right thing, ready with the resources you need? ‘…’

Where did the NEED to ‘get ahead’ in life originate? Why do we experience an overwhelming desire to be in a future that hasn’t yet unfolded? ‘…’

What is it that makes it so hard for many of us to make decisions? Many of us struggle, or watch our loved ones struggle with constant indecision. It shows up in small things’…’

How often have you held back your truth with others? Perhaps you hid your truth in order to avoid hurting someone’s feelings? Maybe what’s true for you isn’t acceptable to others, so you keep it to yourself?’…’

How do our beliefs show up in our relationships? One way to know is how you feel about yourself in that relationship--not how you feel about the other person, how you feel about YOU…

What is it that keeps us from being grateful in our lives and why does it matter? Many of us learned that gratitude is connected to the experience of comparison and guilt – those that ‘have’ versus others that ‘do not have what we do’.

At some point in our evolution, we became disconnected from our natural and easy collaboration with the universe. Many of us learned when we are fully aligned with what we want and don’t want, the universe delivers ‘…’

Why is it so difficult to change outdated and unconscious behaviors and habits? What keeps us from making the changes we know will help us feel better?

What is it that keeps us from being our most expansive selves? Even when we do lots of inner clearing work we may still find ourselves bound up inside. We act and react in ways that no longer work not knowing how to change. ..

How do we change our beliefs about abundance? Most of us have some limiting beliefs that keep us from enjoying the abundance that is naturally ours. Abundance of time, friends, health, love, beauty, peace, expression, money, energy, etc.

How do our beliefs about receiving keep the pleasure out of our lives? Most of us learned that we need to delay our gratification. Vegetables before dessert. Homework before play. Do what they say and we'll get what we want. Our parents negotiated with us in endless ways around the belief that we have to 'pay' for our pleasure.

Why is it so hard  to recognize our limiting beliefs while they are in play? What is it that keeps them hidden from our consciousness?

Our ego, which is ultimately trying to protect us from pain, will defend our beliefs as sacred truths that we have to be right about...

Do you believe that our emotions are a problem? Perhaps you learned to shove them down, hide them, fake them, numb them out, rise above them or ignore them.

Many of us learned that ‘only babies cry’, ‘it's time to man up’, ‘Christians don't get angry’, ‘you'll get something to cry about if you keep it up......