The Living Room is the place you get to have soul satisfying conversations that light you up from the inside out.

You know those conversations - the ones where you realize it's not just you and you find perspective and clarity. They're the ones that leave you wondering why you don't reach out more often, because doing it together is so much easier than separate and alone.

Here are some of the topics I want to talk about with you - connect with me through comments & share your insights in your community.

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Building Mental Resilience Through Preventative Health

Practices in preventative health mean that we have practices even when we don’t seem to need them.

Cultivating Resilience in a Pandemic

We have a tendency to feel less resilient the less power we perceive ourselves to have. How do we feel more powerful? It's different than you might think.

An Alternative Approach to Reducing Anxiety

Practicing Active Listening

Three simple (not easy) practices for active listening.

Holding Space for Difficult Emotions

It's important to reduce the stigma placed on mental health, and how do we ensure we're a safe space to actually support people through difficult emotional times?

Bringing conversations on anxiety to the open

Stop trying to beat anxiety - do this instead.

Thoughts on Vulnerability

If we are to truly shift the conversation on mental health, we have to stop seeing someone with anxiety as broken and in need of fixing and reckon with our own vulnerability of holding space.

A Blindspot in Effectively Navigating Conflict

It’s so much easier for all of us human beings to see the fault in what the other person is doing, but when we concentrate on the behaviour of what is happening on the other side of the table, it strips our power and puts us in the victim seat of not being able to influence or control the situation

I stopped trying to beat anxiety

Rather than "beat anxiety" as if the anxious thoughts are my enemy to conquer, I'd rather turn and face it with…

Do you have anxiety? Read this.

There's an old myth that anxiety (and the entire discussion of emotional health) is a sign of weakness, and it stops us from actually creating a new relationship with our mental health. Here's what does work.