‘Am I Self-Aware?’ Do You Trust, Listen To, Care For, and Know Yourself?

We’re often encouraged to be self-aware, but what does that mean? Here are some questions to help you answer the question Am I self-aware? Do you say no when you need, want to or even should? In those instances where you recognise you need to say no after saying yes,...

The Relationship Pothole of Giving Our Power Away to False Authorities

All of us have relationship potholes. They’re blind spots that keep catching us out. One of mine I’ve had to face down numerous times over the years is about ‘authorities’.  Pre-Baggage Reclaim, I tended to put romantic partners on pedestals. Doing...

Podcast Ep. 273: Ignoring, Dismissing and Overriding Ourselves Always Leads to Problems

When we sense or know something that means we need to change course but we go ahead anyway, we’re always self-critical in the aftermath. We beat ourselves up for not having listened to ourselves. But a dilemma so many of us struggle with is knowing when we...

Podcast Ep. 253: Was your intuition ‘wrong’ though?

There are times when we believe that we trusted our intuition and that it was wrong. From how we confuse it with fear, to how our interpretation and fear responses can lead us astray, to our unrealistic expectations of our intuition that cause us to expect it to...

Distinguishing Intuition From Fear Builds Self-Trust and Confidence

Something we find really difficult to do as humans is working out whether what we’re thinking and feeling is prompted by fear or our intuition. We struggle to distinguish fear feelings and criticism from our inner voice, so our sense of self, including our...