Living Someone Else’s Life? Here’s How to Come Home to Yourself.
I started living a double life early on. Starting in elementary school, I needed to be one person at school, and another person at home and at church. The demands of the doomsday cult known...
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How to Forgive Yourself for Past Mistakes: A Step By Step Guide
When I was younger, it used to make me so mad when I'd hear trusted coaches, therapists, and mentors say, “Just love yourself.” They meant well, but those words were not enough for me! At...
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Find Your Purpose by Subtracting, Not Adding
The biggest myth about how to find your purpose is: I'll get there by adding more to my plate. I'll add new habits, and become massively productive! I'll add new virtues, and become a better...
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False Guilt Will Screw Up Your Life; Here’s How to Get Free
I will never forget the day Nora told me what was really going on. When we first started coaching together, the person I'll call Nora had thousands of emails maxing out her inbox. She was...
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What Causes Perfectionism and Exactly How to Heal
I had my first anxiety attack in the first grade, when the teacher returned my paper with See Me written in red ink instead of the usual Excellent. That perceived failure felt so devastating, I...
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My Life Is Falling Apart, How Do I Live On Purpose?
Whenever I run across one of those productivity-culture articles about how to master your time, gain control of your life, and develop a perfect 5-year plan, I always think about whether or not the author...
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Self Denial Made Me Too Scared to Spend $15 on Myself. Here’s What Helped.
I used to have so much trouble spending money "just for me." It had nothing to do with how hard I worked, or how much I had in the bank. Back when I was an...
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Overcoming Perfectionism Gets Easier with This Ancient Practice
Have you ever been enchanted with a story in which the heroine either doesn't know, or doesn't remember, her true identity? (Yes, I get that this is not the typical lead-in to a post on...
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Ask Caroline: Working 14 hours a day to hopefully one day be successful?
What do you do when what you're working as hard as you can (on a business, a relationship, or a creative project), and you're still not getting the results you want? How do you know...
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Ask Caroline: I need to work and earn money, but I have no clue what to do next.
Dear reader, Welcome to the first 2024 edition of Ask Caroline! I'm here to help you stop doing what you're supposed to do, and start doing what you're MEANT to do. In today's video I'm...
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The one thing you need to stop doing this holiday
Before I became a parent, I didn't understand that there are two types of children's books. There are children's books written for actual children, and there are children's books written for parents. When my first...
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Doing nothing wrong?!
The very first challenge in my book, You Don't Owe Anyone, is to do nothing for 15 minutes. To stop all effort and simply be still. It's hard, yes, but it's also the cure for...
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