I was coaching the members of my Financial Alchemy Academy yesterday.

One of my members is going a major life transition, and she was judging herself for her naturally occuring feelings of grief and unhappiness.

Somewhere along the way, in all her years of personal development, she picked up the message (like most of us do), that she was supposed to be happy all the time. No matter what.

There was something wrong with her for being human…

Haven’t we all felt this way?

I call this the Tyranny of Positive Thinking.

Is positive thinking the answer? Not always. (more…)

thou shalt not hear, see, nor speak any negative vibrations

So there’s this movie (and book) that purports to share the biggest secret of the ages, carefully hidden until now, blah blah blah. Don’t get me wrong–this is an immensely uplifting, feel good movie. It has value. And it’s also full of crap. What exactly is their “secret”

It’s not like Think and Grow Rich or The Power of Positive Thinking, or The Law of Attraction have been kept hidden by some cabal of powerful business men. None of this is new, and none of it’s a secret. In fact these are the titles of immensely popular and influential books over the last century.

So what’s the secret? (more…)

I love and believe in all this vision board/intention setting/beliefs change your reality filter stuff. (Full Disclosure: I don’t even have time to create vision boards anymore. I’m manifesting too fast for that. These days by the time I finish telling a friend what I want–such as, “I want to spend my next birthday in New Zealand”–I’m getting a phone call telling me I’ll be spending my next birthday in New Zealand…)

And there’s a big BLIND SPOT in all of this. (more…)