Resistance is what it sounds like. Something that hinders you or slows you down. When the resistance is so great, it can stop you altogether. The brakes on your bike are a form of resistance. They help you to slow down, but push hard enough and you stop. The same…

I recently stumbled on a past trauma that proved to be the key to a lot of the anxieties I’ve wrestled with as an adult. As someone who hunts down head trash — especially my own — this is a HUGE win for me. When something isn’t shifting, I dig…

You’d be hard pressed to find anyone who says that they don’t self-sabotage. But what do we really mean by this? Most people think of self-sabotage as being where we get in our own way and we scupper our chances of success in doing something. And that’s pretty accurate but…

What is tokophobia? Tokophobia is a pathological fear of pregnancy and birth. The word comes from Greek ‘tokos’ meaning childbirth and ‘phobos’ which means fear. Phobias are a type of anxiety disorder that typically involve an intensely irrational fear of an object or situation that poses little or no danger. We often associate…