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"Feel the fear and do it anyway" has long been an understanding of people who achieve great success.  

Feeling fear, intense fear, and doing things in spite of that fear has been the reason for getting some of the best things in my life, and I want it to be for you too. 

When I was applying to graduate school, I was beyond terrified that I wouldn’t get in.  My husband Nick just told me, “Shelby, if you don’t get in, you are just going to apply to another...

Have you ever felt selfish for pursuing your dreams?  Like you are leaving people behind that need you and love you? 

I was talking with someone the other day about exactly this subject.  She asked me if she was being selfish for leaving her current place of employment, as they were already “short-handed” as it is.  She felt as if she was going to be leaving them hanging if she moved on to pursue her own goals and dreams.  She felt guilty for considering...

I thought it would be fitting to give you the first concept I ever learned as a therapist as the first blog post to Connections Rising.  That concept is this:  Systems Thinking. 

THINKING SYSTEMICALLY MEANS TO SEE EVERYTHING AS INTERCONNECTED.  All things relate to one another and have an effect on one another.   

When this applies to people like you and me, it means that you are not just affected by the emotions in your own body and thoughts in your own mind....