My name is Lynell and I am a recovering perfectionist. Whew there I said it. The way my perfectionistic tendencies show up for me are procrastination, self-doubt, then not doing anything at all because of fear of not doing it “perfect.” I have identified my cycle. This can be a very crippling disease, which can […]
Decision Analysis Paralysis
Struggle with making decisions on your own? Here I walk you through practical steps between polling others and trusting yoursef.
What happens when you get squeezed?
When you squeeze an orange what comes out of it? Yep, that’s right orange juice. It is impossible for something else to come out of it other than what is already in there. Ask yourself, what happens when you get squeezed? When life pushes you to go through experiences that bring about emotions that you […]
Making fear your friend
When I first created this post it was titled “When fear is not your friend,” but the whole point is to make fear your friend because we can’t essentially, and sometimes unfortunately, eliminate it. Fear is this weird emotion that sometimes serves you but can also hinder you… if you let it. I always looked […]
When you heal yourself you heal your children’s children
A woman that I have been blessed to have been spiritually touched by since childhood recently said something that I continuously repeat in my head and say out loud, even to this day . “A woman who heals herself, heals her children’s children.” I sat and thought on that for a minute. When she first […]
Self-Compassion is for everyone- including therapists
We are all locked in the house, trapped it sometimes feels like, in our homes. Day after day I increasingly felt lazier and lazier, like I wasn’t doing anything. As I looked on social media, I saw people pouring out content, making posts, coaches and therapists showing how to get through this quarantine, new things […]