Healthy Personal Boundaries – Part 3 – Creating Healthy Personal Boundaries
Learn how to create healthy and sustainable personal boundaries that serve you well.
Healthy Personal Boundaries – Part 2 – Unhealthy Boundary Personas
It is easy to identify the absence of boundaries in extreme cases of abuse. It is just not so easily identifiable in less severe cases. You may not even realize it and the lack of boundaries may be chipping away at your self-confidence slowly but steadily. If you can...
Healthy Personal Boundaries – Part 1 – Introduction
Boundaries are essential to maintain self -esteem. Learn about the benefits of setting different kinds of healthy boundaries.
Iatrogenics – Look before you Intervene!
Iatrogenics – negative & unintended consequences of medical intervention. See how it affects other domains in our lives and how to best manage it!
Regrets – How to Not Look Back!
Regret is common but not inevitable. Look at a new way of looking at regret so that the past empowers you and works for you!
Denial – The Unhealthy Defense Mechanism
Denial is a self-defense mechanism. But it gets out of control if not checked. Learn how to identify and manage denial in self and others!
Decision Making – The ‘Other’ Kind of Risk
Take a look at why we find decision making difficult & learn why it is so important to push yourself towards action!
How to Start Listening to your Gut
Intuition has been reduced to a lot of hocus-pocus in the past. Scientists have now proven how it is very ‘real’. Learn how to identify and enhance your intuition!
Self-Awareness via the Lost Art of Introspection
Introspection done the right way can lead to self-awareness. Learn what to do and what not to do while introspecting!
Letting Go, Gracefully after a BreakUp – Part 3
Don’t let breakups, break you. Here is a series that can help you let go and move forward, gracefully and intentionally!
Shut up and Shape up – Stop Complaining!
“Call me insensitive but I am only interested in hearing your problem once. Our next conversation has to be about solutions” I was inspired to write this post based on some incessant complaining that I have been subjected to over the last few days. But then, when I...
You Owe this to Yourself – Stop Getting Manipulated Now!
Given the nature of the coaching I do which is empowerment coaching, I come across a number of people who feel they are not in control of their lives primarily because they end up doing things that they do not want to. A lot of the times, it is due to a lack of...
Are You Taking Care of Your Emotional Bank Account?
It is often said people tend to look towards a spiritual path or a path of emotional intelligence and self-discovery when they face some extreme difficulty in life. I have often wondered why that should be the case but it seems evident that one does not set out on a...
Living a Fulfilled Life in these VUCA Times
Even though the acronym was coined before Covid-19, the pandemic has brought everyone to a realization that the world is increasingly getting more Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous. Welcome to the VUCA times! The lack of control that we feel during these...
The Real Reasons to Give – Benefits of Sharing your Precious Resources
I write this post just a few days after Thanksgiving and after seeing a lot of talk on social media about gratitude, sharing, giving, and charity. It’s great that we have a special day to remind us to be grateful for what we have and to remember to pass it on. It is...
Healthy Personal Boundaries – Part 4 – How to Say No!
Boundaries are created when you learn the art of saying 'no'. Often the real challenge is the actual implementation of the boundaries we have set ourselves. It can be tough initially to start saying no when we want to. Boundaries and Barriers - What Keeps you from...
Healthy Personal Boundaries – Part 3 – Creating Healthy Personal Boundaries
The very first thing to know when you start is to understand that boundary-setting should not come from a place of fear. When you set boundaries to avoid things you are afraid of, you significantly suppress growth (because the things we fear that lead us to deep...
Healthy Personal Boundaries – Part 2 – Unhealthy Boundary Personas
It is easy to identify the absence of boundaries in extreme cases of abuse. It is just not so easily identifiable in less severe cases. You may not even realize it and the lack of boundaries may be chipping away at your self-confidence slowly but steadily. If you can...
Healthy Personal Boundaries – Part 1 – Introduction
Would you ever build a house with no doors or locks? I am sure your answer would be no (even though some idealists may want to live in a such utopia). If you know you should protect your house and material possessions from potential thieves, unwelcome guests, and...
Iatrogenics – Look before you Intervene!
If you look up ‘Iatrogenics’ on Google, you will find numerous definitions of the word relating to the harmful effects of medical intervention. Iatrogenics was first used to describe the consequences that were inadvertently induced by a healer in an attempt to solve a...