One of the most common questions I’m asked is how are you different to a psychologist? So what is the difference between each of these professionals and how can you ascertain who you need right now? Read on to learn for yourself.

Self soothing is for adults as much as it is for babies. When you are angry, frustrated, sad, disappointed and disheartened you need a bag of strategies to help you regain calmness. The more often you can use these strategies as soon as you feel highly emotional the greater you can return to happiness. Here’s 10 strategies to self soothe you need today!

Emotional regulation is a super power that allows you to connect with others effectively and ensure that you get the best out of life. It is ability to manage and control your emotions so that you respond not react to people, situations or scenarios.

One of the most common reasons individuals struggle being truly confident is because they lack the ability to trust themselves. This lack of self trust keeps them playing small, second guessing themselves or never fully committing to what they want. ‘But what if something goes wrong?’ This is what most people who lack self trust say on a regular basis. On the surface thinking through things thoroughly, reducing risk to yourself and playing small feels safe and secure but it is abundant in regret. Living a life of ‘I could have, should have’ isn’t the key to happiness so here are 10 ways you can work on your self trust daily.

If you are in the dating world chances are you have met someone who has commitment issues., maybe it has even been you! People who are afraid of commitment generally tend to keep others at an arms length to protect themselves. When you understand why people struggle to commit you can approach them differently, possibly even enable them to open up and overcome their fear. Here are 10 reasons why people struggle with commitment.

I have a confession to make. I LOVE buying nothing. In fact it has become so addictive that I find myself looking at what I can declutter or get my hands on BEFORE I go shopping. I owe this addiction to Buy Nothing Facebook groups in the Toowoomba region.

Being in a relationship is a wonderful thing, you feel a sense of belonging and an immediate feeling of being enough. However, to keep a relationship going well you need to prioritise a commitment to yourself, this way you won’t look back on your time and think ‘I lost myself’. This tends to happen in toxic and positive relationships and it’s nothing to do with the partner but rather about how much you value yourself. Here are 10 commitments you need to make to yourself when you get in a relationship, they are perfect for newly coupled individuals or people looking to sustain a great relationship for life. Take a read.

In modern dating you may hear people say that they don’t want to experience drama, they want something casual because they are done being hurt. Reality is, everyone on the planet has been hurt before. When you are single and not in a relationship you get hurt as well, by shutting people out and not allowing them to love you. But what happens if you want a relationship, but you are scared of getting hurt yet you don’t want to pass a seriously great person by? Here are 6 tips to drop the fear and open yourself up to the greatest joy: love.

‘I need a confidence coach!’ This is the most common comment I received from others when they learn that I am a confidence coach. But happens if you aren’t aware of what a confidence coach does and how they can help you? Chances are you won’t reach out for help if you don’t feel that you need assistance. Some people think that a confidence coach simply helps you to become a great public speaker few understand that a confidence coach dives far deeper than that because confidence coaching isn’t about the mechanics of how to move (or do certain things) but rather why you make the moves you do.

Every year almost on every week you hear of a new fitness trend that you ‘must try’. So what are the current 20 Fitness Trends and how can they help you improve your physical health and confidence this year?

When you are trying to work towards your goals you should expect that challenges will come your way. Having this expectation allows you to be more prepared and able to adapt when needed. So what are the common challenges people face when trying to achieve their goals? Here’s the top 5 challenges you can expect to face.

You’ve probably heard people mention that to live a healthier, happier, more confident life you need to live by your values. But what is the benefit of this and why do people swear by it so much?

Do you wish you had greater self confidence? Many people can easily recognise where they feel confident and where they do not in their lives but how do you improve your confidence if you’ve never really felt successful in different areas of your life?

Confidence begins with self awareness, an understanding of who you are, what you do, why you are the way you are and your recognition that you can always find solutions to challenges and have done in the past.

You’ve entered a new year so surely you have new intentions for the following new, shiny 365 days right? Maybe not. For many people who maintain their confidence at positive levels a new year simply means continuing the great things from the previous year, dialling in on the intention and creating some small goals. How you start your year sets the tone for what is to come, so have you thrown the baby out with the bath water or have you started completely anew and what is best for you?

If you are a high performer there’s a high chance you are a personal development junkie. High performers know that performance comes from having your life in balance and prioritising career and health equally as one directly affects the other. There are so many ways that you can grow into the person you want to become here and 20 tools to help you do that.

When your confidence takes a hit you tend to start noticing people with confidence more often, getting envious and even jealous that you were them. ‘She has it so easy, look how confident she is!’ Truth is, having confidence isn’t as easy as deciding you want to be confident and then it happens. Those women you are envious of have put in the work, to love and accept themselves and be an all round awesome human being. You can have ease, feel confident and enjoy life more too when you understand what makes others fall in love with you easily. Here are 10 traits that makes anyone lovable.

Everyone knows that action helps build confidence, still many people do not take the action that will enable it. Why? The action that is required to build confidence is not the same as lifting a set of weights for 12 reps at the gym. Action that breeds confidence requires you to unpack who you are, your decisions, behaviours, accountability (or lack thereof), when many start this journey they focus on the negative more than the positive, they become filled with self judgement and frozen in commitment.

Building self-awareness takes time and effort, but it is a valuable investment in your personal growth and well-being. By taking small steps and being patient with yourself, you can gradually build a more complete and accurate understanding of who you are and what you need to be happy and fulfilled. The easiest place to start tapping into your awareness is to ask yourself who am I? What do I value? What do I want out of life and why? From here you can learn about yourself, why you do what you do, why you think how you do and how that impacts confidence in your life across the 8 dimensions of health.

In the dating world as soon as someone gets above 30 years of age society starts wondering, ‘What is wrong with them? There is no way they should be single.’ People go looking for the problems instead of actually giving someone a chance, so how is such an outdated belief taking hold on singledons? We explore this dating doozy.

You get up in the morning walk to the bathroom, go to the toilet, wash your face, and look at yourself barefaced in the mirror, ‘Hello again’. Your hair looks like a birds next from the seriously good sleep you had yet you see those dark circles under your eyes, ‘Why do I always look so tired, I guess this is as good as it gets.’ As you’re making breakfast you think to yourself ‘Far out I have so much to do today, I should have done more yesterday. I need to get my act together’. Before long you’ve dished yourself a dose of negative to begin a brand new day. Are you even aware that you do it?