How to control your feelings and stop being controlled by them

In this article I talk about how you can take responsibility over your feelings and stop being a victim of them. With this simple exercise, coming from cognitive therapy, you can unstuck yourself and choose beliefs and solutions that serve you better.

Do you know those situations when you feel stuck, powerless and maybe even a victim of a specific environment, person or behaviour? Like, if you have a problem with the way your boss treats you, or the way a family member has opinions on what you should do with your life? Those situations that make you trigger and it seems like you can’t prevent yourself from reacting in a specific way or feeling what you feel – and blaming yourself later.

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You deserve more: here’s why

Low self-confidence and self-esteem are responsible for a low life quality for women, and in the long run they can lead to burn-out and depression. There’s actually a direct correlation between the two. Hence, my commitment to raise awareness for women, to inform them (hem, you) that even if you learnt to live life one way, it doesn’t have to be that way. And also, helping you to concretely learn another way of living, full of confidence and being yourself. There’s a lot of work on self-beliefs and self-acceptance to empower women in my daily job. 

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How to say no gracefully

Learning to say no it’s important to make sure that your boundaries are respected and that you don’t waste time and energy in activities – or with people – that don’t matter to you. With this exercise, you’ll learn how to do it in 4 steps.

In the last post I wrote about setting healthy boundaries, and in order to set boundaries, you need to learn how to say no and to feel good about it. Because if you feel guilty, it’s a lot more difficult to say no.

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