When all you do is remove triggers from your environment, you don’t grow. I appreciate the sentiment behind a trigger warning. I personally have a number of triggers that can send me to an entirely different mental reality, totally derailing my day, week, month… I understand that there are some…

I’d been working toward my Master Certified Coach Credential for many years. On one of my first vision boards, I had “Michelle Akin, MCC” on it. You can’t see it in this video still, but you can see the board itself… I remember putting it up there and thinking, “will that actually ever happen?” It seemed wildly unachievable to me. …

My inner parent didn’t used to exist. Then, once she did… she was mean. Everything was about judgement and punishment. It showed up in many forms: -Scolding myself for “bad” behavior, and always trying to whip myself into shape. -Never allowing me to just be me, full expressed and unapologetic. …

After reading this, I realize I already do this to help myself fall asleep (and sometimes I can't come up with the scene myself so I listen to audio books and try to let my mind get lost in the story) This is how I dealt with my mother having…

Well, not much… unless you say so. And, I say so! It’s funny, my first coach gave me that phrase: “Because I say so.” So much of my life up until that point was lived from what other people said. Now, if you ask my big sister, she will tell…

I only applied to one college. I was very casual about the whole process while my classmates were patently freaking out. (I didn’t want to go to college, I wanted to go to cosmetology school. My Mom forbid it. And she was scary about it.) Had my Mom said it…

Today is my 6th wedding anniversary and I gotta tell you, marriage blows. What it essentially is is getting to know someone so well that you could successfully win a court case proving why they are the worst person imaginable. Like my husband, for example… He doesn’t side-seat drive, exactly…

It was December of 2012, almost a full year after I had lost my Mom. I had been numbing out on a steady diet of cheese fries, video games, beer, and weed… not to mention obsessively listening to Harry Potter on audio book. One of those not so fun facts…