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Your “Legitimate Reason” May Really Be Resistance

April 10, 2023 | Renée Fishman

You can find confirmation for any reason you have to avoid what you’re avoiding. Your reason may even be legitimate. And here’s the tricky part: it can also be resistance.

Filed Under: Life Tagged With: avoidance, fatigue, fear, futility, resistance, self-awareness, self-honesty, showing up

The “Good Trait” That May Actually Be a Trauma Response

February 7, 2023 | Renée Fishman

Being cooperative, deferential, and accommodating are often praised — especially in children. But these behaviors and attitudes can also be signs of one of the lesser-discussed responses to fear and trauma.

Filed Under: Life Tagged With: adverse childhood experiences, behavior, boundaries, complex PTSD, emotions, fawning, fear, fight, flight, freeze, people-pleasing, self-awareness, trauma, trauma response

Full Moon in Gemini: Get Curious About Your Anger

December 7, 2022 | Renée Fishman

The last full moon of 2022 invites us to get curious about how we react when we feel stuck in moving forward, and how we experience and express anger in all its forms.

Filed Under: Coaching Tagged With: anger, astrology, awareness, emotions, full moon, Full moon in Gemini, Gemini, illumination, journaling prompts, Mars, Mars retrograde, Mercury, momentum, opposition, self-awareness

The Best Reason to Publish a Blog in 2022

November 19, 2022 | Renée Fishman

The best reason to publish a blog is not for what you can share with others but what you’ll discover for yourself.

Filed Under: Creating, Practice, Productivity Tagged With: blogging, ideas, organizing, personal knowledge management, PKM, practice, productivity, reflection, second brain, self-awareness, writing

How to See Your Progress in Your Self-Talk

November 10, 2022 | Renée Fishman

When it comes our self-talk, most of our progress can’t be measured by conventional standards. There’s no metric for the quality of your thoughts. Sometimes it takes a big moment to realize how far you’ve come.

Filed Under: Coaching, Practice Tagged With: ADHD, compassion, emotions, meditation, personal development, planning, practice, self-awareness, self-talk

Why I Stopped Watching the News

November 9, 2022 | Renée Fishman

It’s important for good citizens to be well-informed and to have capacity to act. Television news doesn’t actually facilitate either of these things.

Filed Under: Coaching, Productivity Tagged With: emotions, energy, habits, mindfulness, mindset, news, self-awareness

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