It can feel like a heavy burden, almost like carrying a ton of bricks. When it seems like we can't count on other people, we tend to believe that we're alone and that nobody's got our back.

Once your inner caveman snaps into action, it has only four moves: to fight like a rooster, escape like a mouse, play dead like a possum or appease like a dolphin. You probably have a habitual preference for one of the four. Learn how to recognize your reactions.

Just when we think we have completed a body of personal work like overcoming shame, self loathing or chronic insecurity, it can sneak back up on us.

Collectively we are all being forced to reassess what's important and what matters. In a way, we are being dismembered in order to re-member. We are being disintegrated in order to reintegrate.

Lettuce in your teeth: it’s no big deal, but it sucks to find out after that important meeting where everyone else saw it while you yammered away, blissfully unaware. Why didn’t anyone tell you? This article covers the four main kinds of blind spots and strategies for identifying and working with them.

What if you really want to believe in your intrinsic brilliance and ability to learn and grow from any situation, but there’s a part of you that just doesn’t buy it? It’s time we talk about the Inner Critic.

We've all come to believe in some particular way that we are weak, slow, defective, ugly, unlovable or just plain, "not enough." We mistakenly believe that if we're mean or cruel enough, somehow we will slough off our bad habits. Instead, we're practicing being cruel to ourselves, sending us into a depression that deepens the hole we're already in.

Perfectionism will grind you down, make you afraid of risk and crush your creativity. And the world needs leaders who are energized, willing to go in bold, new directions and who are able to see a variety of possibilities.

It's often hard to detect when feeling associated with burnout are just a passing reaction or when it's a message from the deeper interior that change in needed.

Our experience of difficulty depends entirely on the meaning we bring to it. Some perspectives empower us and some render us incapacitated. How we hold the circumstances of our lives can either grow us or take us down.