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One of the most painful experiences is rejection. Rejection by a romantic partner, a family member, even a stranger feels the same. The pain manifests in symptoms of offense, jealousy, loneliness, shame, guilt, social anxiety and embarrassment. Most of the time the cause of these symptoms remains unknown. The emotions are so loud they perpetuate a mental loop that validate themselves. For example, when interactions with a co-worker seem stilted and uncomfortable. You find ann

When I was little someone showed me a map of the world. I remember zeroing in on British Colombia saying that if I ever got to live abroad it would be there, simply because I liked how it sounded. Fast forward many years, and British Colombia became my home. When I was a teenager, I spent endless hours researching and dreaming about travelling the world. Many times, frustrated about how I was going to achieve it. At age twenty-two I began a six-year journey working on cruise

Becoming aware of a habit or a response to an unwanted scenario is the first step toward change. This step is the acknowledgement phase, where you recognize a repeated pattern that gives you a less than satisfactory, or temporary satisfactory, result. Those habits that offer an immediate endorphin hit, like a sweet treat or recreational drug use, but over the long-term act only as a plaster to underlying personal dissatisfaction. A reminder, after the acknowledgement phase, e