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The outbreak of the Coronavirus disease can be a very stressful time for people. The distancing of oneself from the people, places, and activities that you once participated in can result in feeling helpless, lonely, and uncertain about the future, which can lead to frustration, fear, and anxiety. This can affect anyone from children to the elderly.

Humans thrive off of a sense of community and connection. During this time of self quarantining, be sure to keep in touch with your friends not just through text but via phone and video calls. If you have children, allow them to keep in touch with their friends via phone and video also.

Humans also need to feel productive. Create projects for you, your children, and elderly parents. Exercise, participate in interactive videos, and play games to keep your mind active. Though this isn’t the ideal situation, you could use this time to bond with your family.

Also, remember to maintain a normal schedule. Keep your days structured by maintaining your regular sleep schedule and mealtime. This will keep stability in your home and make your children feel safe. Keeping a similar schedule as before can also help to reduce the stress that can come from the inevitable… going back to work and school.

Watching & reading about the coronavirus can be upsetting. Be sure to take breaks from watching, reading, and hearing these news stories. If you feel yourself getting overwhelmed, it’s a good idea to turn off or put away the phone/radio/newspaper/ television, try taking deep breaths, & go do an activity that you enjoy.

Misinformation can lead to unnecessary panic. Get your instructions and news updates from trusted, reliable sources

Remember that children often react to what they see from the adults around them. One of the best ways to provide support for your children is by dealing with everything calmly, confidently, and being well-prepared.

Keep your body and mind protected.

At CWC Coaching, our team consists of licensed therapists, life coaches, and counselors. We assist clients with self-improvement, career development, negative self-talk, psychological pain, self-sabotaging behavior, past hurts and finding your purpose. If you are ready to increase your self-awareness and happiness, breakthrough limiting behavior and understand your purpose in life, we’d love to help guide you on this journey.

Figuring out what to say on a date can be tricky. How can you be yourself and still be accepted? How can you be just friendly enough without getting put in the friend zone? Is it okay to give compliments? How far can you take the compliments without seeming creepy? How much about yourself should you reveal? It’s all a delicate balancing act. Below are few things to say and do on a date to help keep your date night on the right track.

Compliment Their Look

If you like your date’s hair, clothes, or even facial features, let them know. It’s important to let your date know that you’re attracted to him/her because your date could be physically attracted to you also but too nervous to admit it. You admitting it first could encourage them to do the same. Anyone attracted to someone wants that someone to be attracted to them.
So, how do you compliment them without sounding creepy? Add the phrase “on you” at the end of your compliment. It makes it more specific. For example, “That dress looks beautiful on you.” Don’t hold back on the compliments out of fear of sounding creepy or too shallow. Just be mindful of the words you use. Remember, everyone wants to feel admired and reassured… especially from someone they like.

Say You’ll Call Them Back Later

For many people in the dating world, it’s not realistic to turn one’s phone completely off and focus solely on your date as if nothing else matters. You may have underage children or you could be the caregiver to your elderly parents and you’d need to be notified in case of an emergency. It’s okay to explain that to your date. Just be sure not to keep your phone faced up on the table. Many people find it to be rude.

Say Thank You

Be cordial to the waiters, the bartenders, and even the valet. Kindness is attractive, but don’t only limit your kindness to your date. Be cordial and kind to anyone you interact with on your date. Everyone deserves respect. Showing your date you believe that could be a major turn-on.

Plan To See Them Again

Sometime during your date, you may reach a high point in your conversation. The high point is typically about a shared interest or value that you both feel strongly about. Once you’ve reached that high point, you have found some similar interests or values. Express to them that you’d like to share that experience with them. This shows that you are truly interested in furthering the relationship.

Talk About Your Relationship With Family/friends

In case you were wondering, it’s okay to talk about your relationship with your family/friends on the first date. It reinforces the idea that you’re a caring person. Having a healthy relationship with your friends and family also shows that you’re capable of respecting and setting healthy boundaries and that you can balance your life.

Ask Follow-up Questions

What better way to show that you’re listening than to ask a follow-up question after your date says something? Follow up questions will keep the conversation flowing and show your date that you’re intrigued with them…which is very likely to get you another date with them. Just be sure not to interrogate them. Listen carefully to what your date says, ask questions based on their previous statements, engage with the conversation by offering your own experiences and insights, rush the conversation. Don’t be so afraid of the awkward pauses or having nothing else to talk about. Once you and your date start flowing and both enjoying the conversation, those awkward pauses could actually become cute little flirtatious glances that you share.

Dating should be fun. Be yourself and enjoy the process.

At CWC Coaching, our team consists of licensed therapists, life coaches, and counselors. We assist clients with self-improvement, career development, negative self-talk, psychological pain, self-sabotaging behavior, past hurts and finding your purpose. If you are ready to increase your self-awareness and happiness, breakthrough limiting behavior and understand your purpose in life, we’d love to help guide you on this journey.

Sometimes, we’re too focused on own our faults and other times, we’re too focused on other people. It’s good to think about others and to be honest about our own mistakes so that we learn from them, but a proper balance is so necessary for a healthy you. Never be so distracted that you forget about loving yourself. Last week, we began the topic of self-love. This week, we’re continuing the topic by giving more examples of ways to love yourself.

Enjoy your own company

Too often do people only have fun when others are around, but you can have fun by yourself. You can take yourself out on dates, enjoy your favorite show and a snack at home alone, take trips by yourself, & you can even find new things to try. These activities can teach you so much about yourself.

Trust Your Self

Imagine how confident you feel when someone trusts you and how much closer to them and happier you are with them. Now, imagine how distant, maybe even hopeless, you feel when someone close to you doesn’t trust you. This is exactly how it feels when you don’t trust yourself. You feel insecure about your decision-making skills and not quite in tune with your intuition. Trusting yourself is a good way to show self-love. Often times, we know exactly what’s right, but we allow self-doubt to creep in. We also usually know what’s best for ourselves. Follow your instincts and stand confident in your decisions.

Take Care Of Yourself

When you love something or someone, you take care of it/them. You should do the same with yourself. Taking care of yourself is a great way to practice self-love. You can practice self-love by eating well, exercising, having proper sleep, and having healthy social interactions.

Keep A Journal

There are so many benefits to keeping a journal. A journal can help to keep your thoughts organized, it can boost memory, and can help you self-reflect. Writing in your journal can be one of those activities you do right before bed to relax and whine down because it relieves stress. Keeping a journal is also a great way to monitor your life. You can write down your goals, write down your daily eating, and even write down every week something about yourself that you like. The latter may take some time getting used to, especially for people that don’t often focus on the positives about themselves. Every week, you can write down something positive about yourself and focus on that thing for the week. It can be a physical trait or an accomplishment. Sometimes we tend to follow the crowd & put value only on the things that society says is valuable. For example, teeth structure, hair texture, skin tone, body type, certain jobs, abilities, interests, or social status…but what if you don’t mirror society’s beauty standards and you’re just fine with that? What if the things about you that were made fun of, you don’t actually hate? What if you’re really content with your working middle-class life? It’s okay to love every inch of yourself-even if others don’t (you’ll find that many of those people don’t truly love their own selves anyway). You can focus on those things about yourself and write them down every week…physical traits, accomplishments…etc.

Don’t allow your insecurities to make you believe they’re small or insignificant.You will always be around yourself. Why not learn to like you? Self-love is one of the best things you can do for yourself.

At CWC Coaching, our team consists of licensed therapists, life coaches, and counselors. We assist clients with self-improvement, career development, negative self-talk, psychological pain, self-sabotaging behavior, past hurts and finding your purpose. If you are ready to increase your self-awareness and happiness, breakthrough limiting behavior and understand your purpose in life, we’d love to help guide you on this journey.

Self-love is critical for genuine happiness. People sometimes think of “on-the-surface” things when the word “self-love” comes to mind… things that involve caring for one’s physical appearance. While up-keeping your physical appearance is a part of self-love, it’s much deeper than that. To learn to truly love yourself, you have to look introspectively and dig deeper.

Accepting What Is

No matter what your current situation is, accept it. Accepting where you are in life doesn’t mean you shouldn’t strive to make things in your life better, but accepting will make you stop dwelling on the past & stressing about the future, and begin focusing your energy on the present. This will bring peace of mind, which makes for a better you.

Making Yourself Your Number A Priority

When you care about someone, it’s easy to put their needs before yours. While it’s not a bad thing to care about the desires and feelings of your loved ones, also remember what you need and how you feel. Before you immediately jump to making someone else comfortable, first consider how doing so makes you feel. If someone is constantly saying or doing something that hurts you, drains you, or makes you feel any negative emotion, it’s your job to allow it no more. Make your feelings a priority. If you constantly disregard your feelings and needs, and if you constantly put the desires of others before yours, you could eventually become drained. If you’re drained, you can’t be the best version of yourself and you won’t have anything to give yourself or others. This is why it’s so important to put yourself first and take a break to recharge.  

Stop Criticizing Yourself

Many people are too harsh on themselves about the smallest shortcomings. People beat themselves up in their own head for their appearances, mistakes on the job, in relationships..etc.  Remember that whatever you constantly tell yourself becomes your reality. If you say to yourself how fat, stupid, ugly, or unworthy you are, it becomes your truth and you begin to live and respond to the world as that (fat, stupid, ugly, or unworthy) person. Remember that nobody is perfect and everyone has fallen short of a goal. Be easy on yourself and give yourself grace and love.

Next week, we will continue the topic of self-love. Remember that no one can love you the way you can love yourself. You have so much love & compassion inside of yourself. Be sure to give some to yourself. 

At CWC Coaching, our team consists of licensed therapists, life coaches, and counselors. We assist clients with self-improvement, career development, negative self-talk, psychological pain, self-sabotaging behavior, past hurts and finding your purpose. If you are ready to increase your self-awareness and happiness, breakthrough limiting behavior and understand your purpose in life, we’d love to help guide you on this journey.

Have you ever snooped around your partner’s belongings? Have you ever looked through their phone, in search of specific pictures or personal messages? Perhaps you snoop right now on your current partner, or maybe it’s something you did in the past that you aren’t opposed to doing again if you ever suspected dishonesty from your partner. Below are four points to consider about snooping and your relationship. 

The Golden Rule

You know the golden rule that says” Treat others the way you want to be treated”? Imagine how you would feel if your privacy was invaded…if someone spied on you or went through your personal belongings. Snooping is essentially spying and being dishonest. And if you really think about it, it’s doing the very thing we’re afraid of our partner doing -being dishonest. 

Snooping Feeds Fear

When you snoop, what you actually fear is your partner engaging in activities that you disapprove of (spending huge amounts of money without your knowledge, being sexually involved with other people, hanging out with friends that are bad influence). There’s a world of things you can imagine that could be happening and when you snoop, it only feeds your fear. It doesn’t take much for your fears to be fed, but with a little encouragement (snooping), it can grow into something enormous that can consume your mind. Once you’re in this state, it’s difficult to think rationally and you usually keep looking for things to prove your fear is real. 

It Breaks Trust

 We all know how long it takes to open your heart up to someone and start trusting them, but it only takes a moment to destroy it all, and it can be even harder to build that trust up again once it has been broken. Maybe you feel that your partner has broken the trust between you, but snooping around will only worsen the trust issue and make your partner feel insecure about you being around their personal items. Many people want to retaliate once they’ve been hurt, but revenge doesn’t heal anything. It only worsens the issue and your partner may never get over you snooping. 

Snooping Can Lead To Stalking

Snooping can be a gateway behavior into stalking. At first, snooping can seem harmless, but what starts out as just looking through someone’s phone can lead to checking their computer, then driving by to see if your partner really is where he/she says they are and who they’re with. Snooping is a slippery slope.

If you suspect that your partner is being dishonest, don’t snoop around for confirmation of your suspicion. Talk to your partner about your feelings. The reality is that even if you don’t have proof of your partner being unfaithful, once you are suspicious of them, there’s a problem in your relationship and you need help. Consider a therapist to help create a safe space and healthy exchange for you and your partner to discuss this very serious matter. Mistrust and insecurities should not be taken lightly and will always be a hindrance from a healthy relationship and a happy you. Not to mention, cheating (if your suspicion about your partner is accurate, then you’ll definitely need the help of a therapist). You will need the help of a therapist to help you and your partner get back on the right track. You don’t have to solve your relationship problems on your own. 

At CWC Coaching, our team consists of licensed therapists, life coaches, and counselors. We assist clients with self-improvement, career development, negative self-talk, psychological pain, self-sabotaging behavior, past hurts and finding your purpose. If you are ready to increase your self-awareness and happiness, breakthrough limiting behavior and understand your purpose in life, we’d love to help guide you on this journey.

Last week, we began the topic of being happy. We discussed the main difference between a happy person and a miserable person- daily habits. Today, were delving into more habits of happy people.

Exercise

We all know the effects that excercise can have on one’s body, but regular exercise can also help to reduce stress, feelings of anxiety, and symptoms of depression, all while boosting self-esteem and happiness.
You don’t have to start big by training for a triathlon…or even joining a gym immediately. You can start small by making simple changes to your weekly routine…such as walking around your neighborhood each afternoon after dinner, parking your car a little further than usual to walk to work, starting your day with 5 minutes of stretching.
Don’t limit excercise to being at the gym. You could join the nearest beginner’s yoga class, or activities you always wanted to try, such as golf, bowling, or dancing. Find activities that you genuinely enjoy doing.
Whichever activity you choose, be sure to not overexert yourself. You could end up frustrated, in pain, and discouraged.

Live in the moment.

No amount of anxiety, stress, or regret can change the past or determine the future. The only thing it will affect is the present. Worrying will only take away the opportunity to experience happiness today.
Happy people understand that it’s impossible to be happy if one’s mind is constantly somewhere else. To live in the moment, you must first accept & make peace with your past. Secondly, you must accept the uncertainty of the future. Often times, people are so focused on what happened and what may happen, that they’re blinded from all of the beautiful things around them… Living in the moment will bring awareness to many things that you barely paid attention to before… simple things that could make you happy.

Giving

Giving can make us feel happy. In a 2006 study, Jorge Moll and colleagues at the National Institutes of Health found that when people give to charities, it activates regions of the brain associated with pleasure, social connection, and trust, creating a “warm glow” effect. Scientists also believe that altruistic behavior releases endorphins in the brain, producing the positive feeling known as the “helper’s high.”
Giving can shift your focus away from what you want & don’t have. Giving can also evoke gratitude.
Regardless of whether you’re on the giving or receiving end, giving can be a way of expressing gratitude or instilling gratitude in the recipient.
Find more ways to give. Volunteer. Be charitable. Find the nearest soup kitchen or homeless shelter.

Every day is another opportunity to be happy. It’s up to us every day to choose what to focus on- the negatives or the positives. Though there are other contributing factors that can affect one’s mood, there’s still a portion of our happiness that is within our control. Take some time to reflect on your daily routines and thought processes. Make conscious steps to make your life happier. Remember. You hold the key to your own happiness

At CWC Coaching, our team consists of licensed therapists, life coaches, and counselors. We assist clients with self-improvement, career development, negative self-talk, psychological pain, self-sabotaging behavior, past hurts and finding your purpose. If you are ready to increase your self-awareness and happiness, breakthrough limiting behavior and understand your purpose in life, we’d love to help guide you on this journey.

Being happy is intentional. It’s something that one must create and maintain. Happy people constantly engage in happiness-boosting habits. One of the main differences between happy people & miserable people is their habits. Today, we’re delving into the habits of happy people, in efforts to consciously construct a more happy, fulfilled life.

Be Grateful

Practicing gratitude daily can boost your mood. Acknowledge one thing you’re grateful for every day. This practice can encourage positive feelings of hope and happiness. Throughout your day, try keeping an eye out for the positive and pleasant things in your life. These don’t have to be huge things. You can find pleasantries in the simplest things that happen throughout your day. This daily practice could make you become more aware of all the positive things around you, resulting in you being more grateful in life and happier.

Keep A Journal

Keeping a journal is a good way to destress, to set & achieve your goals, to organize your thoughts, analyze your feelings, and even to self reflect. You don’t have to be a professional writer to keep a journal. You can simply jot down a few thoughts before you go to bed.

Get Plenty Of Sleep

Poor sleep can affect one’s mood by causing frustration and stress. Adequate sleep is vital to brain function and emotional well-being.

To build a better sleep routine:
-Keep notes of how many hours you sleep each night and how rested you feel.
-Go to bed and wake up at the same time every day(including weekends).
-An hour before bed each night, do something relaxing that wines you down. Let this be your quiet time. It could be taking a warm bath, reading, listening to relaxing music, or even playing a crossword puzzle.

You hold the key to your own happiness. By choosing more happiness boosting habits, you can create a life in which you are genuinely happy.

At CWC Coaching, our team consists of licensed therapists, life coaches, and counselors. We assist clients with self-improvement, career development, negative self-talk, psychological pain, self-sabotaging behavior, past hurts and finding your purpose. If you are ready to increase your self-awareness and happiness, breakthrough limiting behavior and understand your purpose in life, we’d love to help guide you on this journey.

Congratulations!  You’re considering a Resolution for 2020.  We think you can absolutely make your resolutions stick.  In this article, we will explore three enhancements to help you keep your resolutions today, in 2020, and beyond.  For the quickest answer for most of us, skip to the section entitled Do It Yourself?

Make Your Goals SMART.

Here’s how you make your 2020 Resolutions SMART – Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Time-Based.  

Specific.  

Develop your plan for achieving your goal by asking lots of questions and refining your goal.  For example, instead of declaring that you’ll finally stop snacking, hone your resolution by asking questions:  what’s your why? how will you stop? who can you count on for support? when are you most likely to want a snack? And, importantly, how will you overcome obstacles? 

    Measurable

It is critical to have a metric to know that you are making progress and that you have achieved your goal.  How do you want to measure your health? – by pounds, a tape measure, body mass index, etc.? There are even ways to measure relationship goals!  So, find a way to quantify your efforts.

    Attainable

    A goal should be achievable/attainable.  Whether your goal is for a financial, career-based, health/well-being or centered around a relationship objective, research the standards and see if it’s doable.   Without this confirmation, your initial goal may be a tall order to achieve, potentially causing disappointment or, ever worse, a waste of energy.

Realistic

Considering other activities in your life, how likely will you be able to fold these new, specific tasks into your life.  What else are you looking to attain in 2020 and how does this goal fit in to your other objectives?

Time-Based

Convert your resolution into monthly and then weekly milestones.  Assign the tasks within your goal to times in your calendar.  

The SMART goals will provide clarity, structure, and the big why to persevere, but we are missing a huge element  – energy.   

Energy Map Your SMART- Goal.

Strategic energy mapping is a term to focus you on the ebbs and flows of your energy on a typical day (Stanford Professors Bill Burnett and Dale Evans).  When do you naturally have your highest energy each day? Can you harness that energy towards your new goal? By looking at the typical week for both the opportunity and the energy for a new habit, you are more likely to keep your resolution.    

Consider which activities improve your energy flow.  What’s your energy re-set: Is it playing a musical instrument, a brisk walk, connecting with a friend, looking at art or wildlife?  Explore and apply. Use an energy re-set to fuel the new habit and build progress and achievement of your resolution.  

Energy mapping your day, week, and month can transform your calendar to what you long to do personally while managing the obligations that keep your life running.  As a result your SMART tasks can find their way into your calendar with a higher likelihood of getting done. And with SMART goals and Energy Mapping you are better equipped to NOT be one of the 80% who find their resolutions slipping by February (US News & World Report, December 5, 2018).  

Do it Yourself?

Some people thrive by working independently, but most achieve their goals more easily and quickly by working with an impartial, experienced coach.  (C. Sime. “How Does Coaching Actually Help Leaders.” Forbes, March 28, 2019). The Forbes article cites a recent study that found individual coaching to be superior in goal attainment as compared to a group training or a control group with no intervention.  

Anecdotally, we’ve seen even our busiest clients stay on track and accomplish their goals because of regular coaching meetings.  For example, one of my clients is a CEO who made time to meet even in her busiest season. She said,“When I hear you re-state some of the ideas, I can decide which ones to eliminate and which ones to pursue.  It frees up my mind to do other things.” The investment of time with her coach generates the clarity to make other decisions and yields better results, sooner.

Clarity.  Balance. Decisiveness.  Happiness. These are some of the many ways our clients describe their lives as a result of working with us.  CWC Coaching and Therapy is client driven, empathetic, and highly attentive. Our full suite of research-based services support clients through life coaching, therapy, and relationships.  

If you’d like to explore how we can support your new year, book your complimentary, private, 20-minute consultation with us today.

BIO:  Genie Sockel is a Life Coach at CWC Coaching and Therapy.  She has a J.D. from Georgetown Law and a B.A. in Psychology from Yale.  Genie enjoys seeing her clients grow and in her personal life she enjoys singing and songwriting and watching their Border Terrier, Seamus, swim at the neighborhood nature preserve.

At CWC Coaching, our team consists of licensed therapists, life coaches, and counselors. We assist clients with self-improvement, career development, negative self-talk, psychological pain, self-sabotaging behavior, past hurts and finding your purpose. If you are ready to increase your self-awareness and happiness, breakthrough limiting behavior and understand your purpose in life, we’d love to help guide you on this journey.

Last week, we began discussing how to deal with stressful family drama during the holidays. This week, we’re delving into more helpful strategies to not just survive this holiday season with family, but actually enjoy your time spent with them.

Find reasons to be grateful

Try shifting your thoughts this season by focusing on what you’re grateful for. Doing so can lift your mood. You can choose to find the positives in anything. Whether it’s gratefulness from being with family that you haven’t seen in a while, a new addition to the family, delicious food and traditions, having a home to live in, or even the beautiful weather. Focusing on the positives of being around your family this season will make the negatives seem less significant, likely resulting in you enjoying yourself more. 

Be at Peace & Accept

The holidays are expected to be a time filled with gratitude and peace in our hearts and minds. Ironically, too often is it filled with pressure, anxiety, and frustration. Pressure, anxiety, and frustration of preparing food, traveling, giving the perfect gift, having your home look perfect, having everyone get along, and just having everything go smoothly. It’s best to accept that not everything will go as planned and to be at peace with it. Accept who your family members really are and accept that you cannot change them. Accept that you can’t control everything they say. Accept that there may be some friction and understand that where there are a group of individuals, there will be differing opinions. With all that could possibly happen, the day can still be beautiful. Accept the spontaneity and the mess. After all, picture-perfect holidays only exist in Christmas movies. 

Shorten your stay

Perhaps you’ve considered this option before, but the feelings of guilt and obligation were too overwhelming. Your decision to spend time with family shouldn’t be led by a sense of obligation or guilt. If being with family for long periods of time is something that you can’t handle, then don’t. Consider shortening your stay. Deciding to shorten your stay doesn’t mean you don’t care about your family, but that you care about your mental well-being. Only you know when you can’t take anymore and only you are obligated to your own happiness. 

  Remember that you can’t control how anyone acts. You can only control your actions. Changing your mindset and properly strategizing is the key to having a happier holiday. 

At CWC Coaching, our team consists of licensed therapists, life coaches, and counselors. We assist clients with self-improvement, career development, negative self-talk, psychological pain, self-sabotaging behavior, past hurts and finding your purpose. If you are ready to increase your self-awareness and happiness, breakthrough limiting behavior and understand your purpose in life, we’d love to help guide you on this journey.

The holidays are expected to be a joyful time spent with family. However, it isn’t always that way. Sometimes, passive-aggressive comments & invasive questions can put you in uncomfortable positions and just downright make you unhappy. The strife can sometimes be so intense that you may have second-guessed being around certain family members the following year.

Before you begin stressing out and allowing the drama to ruin your holiday mood, below are a few tips to help you deal with the family drama this season.

Inspire Fun Activities

While you cannot control everything that happens with family during the holidays, you can definitely spark some fun activities that could positively shift the mood in the room. Encourage your family to go around the table and share one thing that they’re grateful for, starting with you. Other fun activities to consider are bringing interactive games to play and bringing funny movies for everyone to watch. All of these ideas can help to encourage group participation and set a light-hearted mood

Don’t Let Them Control Your Feelings

Always remember that no one can control your emotions without your permission. You can’t stop your family from asking rude questions and bringing up controversial topics. But you can control your feelings and reaction. It’s simple. Don’t engage. You can even say, “Let’s not get into that” or “I don’t want to talk about that right now.” No one can force you to engage and before you become too overwhelmed, remember that you don’t have to sit there and absorb what you can’t handle. Remember that you can respectfully get up, walk away, and continue to enjoy your holiday.

Consider Their Perspective

As challenging as it may be dealing with certain family members, sometimes it helps to understand where they’re coming from. We only see some family members once or twice a year. As annoying as family can sometimes be, they love you. Many of their comments aren’t intended to hurt your feelings, but to help you consider an alternative option. Many of their questions aren’t meant to be invasive, but to get an update on your life, considering their limited opportunities to see you and engage in personal conversations. Knowing that your relatives mean well might not suddenly make you happy about their questions and comments, but it should help you take it not so personally.

Don’t let your family burst your holiday bubble. Decide that you will remain positive, enjoy yourself, and avoid the negativity. Commit to it. Regardless of your family’s opinions of your life’s decisions, remind yourself that you are doing the best you can. Also remember that their opinion of you is more of a reflection of them, rather than of you. What they think about you is not who you are.  

At CWC Coaching, our team consists of licensed therapists, life coaches, and counselors. We assist clients with self-improvement, career development, negative self-talk, psychological pain, self-sabotaging behavior, past hurts and finding your purpose. If you are ready to increase your self-awareness and happiness, breakthrough limiting behavior and understand your purpose in life, we’d love to help guide you on this journey.