Cultivating Kindness With Karen  Whether you are having a conversation about business, personal growth or spirituality the word 'alignment' is bound to be used. Whatever your definition, or understanding, of what alignment means; add in the word leveragin

Cultivating Kindness With Karen  Having regrets about something is not unusual. Having many regrets over your lifetime is also quite common. Often we brush them off, or push them aside, thinking they are just part of life. What people do not think about i

Cultivating Kindness With Karen  Experts say we have 60,000 - 80,000 thoughts every day; that is over 2,500 thoughts per hour! What is even more amazing, and scarier, is that most people are believing all of these thoughts. The vast majority of these appr

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Cultivating Kindness With Karen In Part 2, the way out of people pleasing will be discussed. When you understand the hold this behaviour has on you, why you enjoy it and the fears underneath letting it go, then recovery from being a people pleaser begins

Cultivating Kindness With Karen How do you see people pleasing? Is it a choice, a reaction or something else? Are you even aware of when you are falling into the role of being a "People Pleaser"? People pleasing (according to psychology) is actually more

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