How to Let Go of Coping Mechanisms That Don’t Serve You

How to Let Go of Coping Mechanisms That Don’t Serve You

Coping mechanisms, we all have them. While sometimes coping mechanisms are useful tools in helping us process the stress in our day, some coping mechanisms end up doing more harm than good. Maybe it's food, maybe it's wine, maybe it's shopping, maybe it's TV - whatever it is, it's important for us to check-in and let go of coping mechanisms in our lives that we find no longer help us. That is why I brought on Th Stress Less Show this week life coach and owner of Eau Claire Sober Living, Michelle Markquart, to share her tips on how to let go of unhealthy coping mechanisms in order to make room for healthier ones…

How to Set Healthy Boundaries

How to Set Healthy Boundaries

Boundaries, boundaries, boundaries! I cannot stress enough how important they are, but setting healthy boundaries isn’t always as easy as we'd like it to be. We may have trouble knowing what boundaries we need in our lives when we’re so accustomed to focusing on everyone else's needs first. Or maybe we do know what boundaries we need to set, but every time we try to we can't seem to actually stick to them. Let’s face it, creating boundaries can be tough! That is why I brought on The Stress Less Show this week, Mary Brown, founder of Intentional Life Coaching and boundaries expert, to help break down how to set healthy boundaries in our lives and actually make sure we stick to them…

How to Achieve Balance

How to Achieve Balance

How are you doing right now? Throughout this entire month, we have been talking about mental health on The Stress Less Show in honor of Mental Health Awareness Month. While mental health is always an important part of our well-being that we need to pay attention to, we find ourselves living in a time where mental health and taking care of ourselves has become even more important. As we continue to adjust to shelter-in-place and stay-at-home orders as a result of COVID-19, we might be finding ourselves juggling a million new challenges at any given moment of the day. That is why I brought counselor, Majet Reyes, back on The Stress Less Show to help us find balance during this uncertain time…

How to Accept Yourself for Who You Are

How to Accept Yourself for Who You Are

Loving and accepting ourselves sounds a whole lot easier than it actually turns out to be. As we grow up and change, we all can find ourselves having to learn how to accept ourselves over and over and over again. Throughout our lives, we may reach points where we feel disconnected from who we are, and knowing where to begin to accept ourselves can seem so out of reach. That is why this week I brought on The Stress Less Show, Licensed psychotherapist Kira Yakubov, to begin to help us start truly practicing self-acceptance…

How to Have a Positive Perspective on Your Mental Health

How to Have a Positive Perspective on Your Mental Health

Happy Mental Health Awareness Month! Taking care of our Mental Health is extremely important for our growth and happiness. However, for a lot of us, the idea of focusing on our mental health is scary. There can be so much stigma around mental health conditions that many of us would rather not face it at all. However, approaching your mental health doesn't have to be a negative or scary experience. That is why I brought mental health coach and owner of Locall Motion LLC, Heidi Garborg-Mueller, on The Stress Less Show to talk about how we can shift our perspective on Mental Health and view it much more positively…

Spiritual Ways To Manage Stress, Anxiety, and Depression

Spiritual Ways To Manage Stress, Anxiety, and Depression

Recently, I had the pleasure of being featured in a blog post on spirituality and stress, 43 Spiritual Ways To Manage Stress, Anxiety, and Depression among a bunch of other great experts. Take a look at my advice!

Simple and Gradual Ways to Become More Spiritual

Simple and Gradual Ways to Become More Spiritual

Spirituality can seem like a daunting thing to try to cultivate in our lives. Especially when we have grown so accustomed to focusing on everything else in our busy minds and days. Fortunately, becoming more spiritual doesn’t have to be complicated or confusing. That is why I brought on The Stress Less Show holistic health and lifestyle coach, Britta GreenViolet, to share her simple and gradual ways to start becoming more spiritual…

How to Start Your Spiritual Stress Management Journey

How to Start Your Spiritual Stress Management Journey

At The Stress Less Company, we talk a lot about our Stress Less journeys (of course!), but what we don't always focus on in specific is our spiritual Stress Less journey. For a lot of us, we may feel a bit lost when it comes to connecting to that spiritual side of ourselves, but deep down, we might find ourselves noticing that there's something there that we need to connect to. That is why I invited Ilia Stranko, founder of Spiritually Curious, on the show to help us start our spiritual Stress Management Journey…

How to Uncover What Your Dreams Are Telling You

How to Uncover What Your Dreams Are Telling You

Are you a dreamer? Dreams are fascinating experiences. They offer us a peek into our subconscious in ways that often perplex and even scare us, but the fact is that our dreams are also clues into ourselves that can help us transform our relationship with not only our stress but also our lives as a whole. That is why I brought on The Stress Less show Abigail Vettese, an herbalist and dreamwork enthusiast, to help us really dig into the power of our dreams…

How to Tap Into Your Intuition

How to Tap Into Your Intuition

Question for you, how often do you trust your gut? In hindsight, it is often much easier for us to understand what our intuition was trying to tell us, But in the moment of a big decision, listening to your gut and trusting your intuition isn't that simple. That is why I brought on The Stress Less Show this week intuitive development coach, Colleen St. Michaels, to help demystify the power of intuition so that we can start to listen to what our gut is telling us in the moment and act on what it is trying to tell us.

Do You Know Your Worth?

Do You Know Your Worth?

Knowing your worth is easier said than done. Many of us don't spend a lot of time thinking about our value to our loved ones, to our employers and the world overall. However, that value cannot be understated. The reality is we have so much to give to the world and one of the most important things we can do for ourselves is to recognize our worth and stand up for it. That is why I brought on the Stress Less Show this week Stephanie Heath, a job search consultant and career coach, to talk all about the importance of knowing our worth so that we can reclaim selfishness and put ourselves first.

Combat COVID-19 Stress With Creative Stress Reduction

Combat COVID-19 Stress With Creative Stress Reduction

Let's face it. We are living through some very stressful times right now. No matter who we are, where we live or what we do, COVID-19 has no doubt disrupted every area of our lives and the reality is that things probably aren’t going to feel normal for a while. Major disruptions in our lives can be a bit overwhelming, but when these disruptions happen on a global scale, fear, panic, and anxiety run rampant in our minds and our communities. As a stress management coach and expert, I spend a lot of time talking about the need for reducing stress in our lives, but now more than ever managing our stress is critical in making sure we are taking care of our health - mentally and physically…

How to Escape the Expectations of Others and Focus On You

How to Escape the Expectations of Others and Focus On You

How many of us out there have ever felt trapped by other people's expectations of us? Whether it's our family members, our partners, our friends or even our coworkers, we can face a lot of pressure from others when it comes to the decisions we make for ourselves. As much as we would love to be able to please everyone, the reality is that what we want and what we expect of ourselves is far more important than the expectations that anyone else has for us. We can't please everyone and when we try to, we only end up letting ourselves down. This week, I'm so happy to have confidence coach, speaker, and our Self(ish) Philly MC, Danielle Mercurio, on the show to share her story and her tips for finally putting yourself first ahead of everyone else's expectations of you…

Am I Afraid of Putting Myself First?

Am I Afraid of Putting Myself First?

Are you afraid of what would happen if you put yourself first? Last week on The Stress Less Show, I talked a little bit about reclaiming the word selfish and starting to put your needs first. If you saw that episode or read that blog post, I'm willing to bet there was a part of you that thought, “Sure, Carlee, that sounds great but I can't do that.” Putting our needs first, frankly for a lot of us, is scary because we are so used to putting ourselves last on our list. Well, enough is enough! We are facing that fear head-on because we deserve to take care of ourselves first. That is why I am so excited to have on the show this week Danielle Massi. Not only is Danielle the founder of The Wellness Collective and a holistic mental health therapist, but she is also my wonderful partner in crime and co-founder for a brand new transformative self-care conference called SELF(ish) Philly!

Danielle and I have…

Am I Being Selfish?

Am I Being Selfish?

How many times have you been called selfish? One thing I’ve found is that women often get called three things: fat, crazy, and selfish. Now, fortunately, there are so many amazing companies and individuals - nutritionists, health coaches, fitness trainers, therapists, you name it - that are doing incredible work reclaiming the word crazy and standing up for body positivity. But what about selfishness?

The truth is when most people call someone selfish, what they really mean is the word narcissist. Here’s the thing though, being selfish and being a narcissist is NOT the same thing. Being selfish is all about putting your needs first and making sure that your cup is overflowing so that you can give more to the world.

So this month on The Stress Less Show, we are reclaiming the word selfish because we deserve to put ourselves first!

How to Use Tai-Chi Techniques to Bring Peace Into Your Day

How to Use Tai-Chi Techniques to Bring Peace Into Your Day

A lot of times when I talk to people about stress they mention trying meditation but not quite being able to make it work for them. if you are a newbie to meditation and mindfulness,  you might be wondering how sitting down in silence for 25 minutes is going to reduce your stress when your mind just keeps going and going and going. Fortunately, there's so much more to meditation and mindfulness and just sitting down in silence and there are actually simple ways to start incorporating other mindful practices into your life and begin to understand your stress in new ways…

How to Use Your Senses to Stress Less

How to Use Your Senses to Stress Less

Sometimes stress management can feel like a daunting or overwhelming challenge, but the truth is that it really doesn’t have to be! This month, we are focusing on all the simple ways there are to stress less and to kick us off I brought on founder of Vibrant You Coaching, Nancy Smith, to give us a few pointers on how we can start stressing less by using our…

How to Manage Illness While Creating a Successful Business

How to Manage Illness While Creating a Successful Business

While there are a lot of reasons we may want to work less, one important reason is one we don’t always talk about: Illness. Chronic illness is something that affects a lot more of us than we realize. Whether it’s physical or mental, chronic illness has the potential to seriously impact our personal and professional lives; and when we are entrepreneurs trying to build a business, a chronic illness can feel like an impossible obstacle to overcome. But it’s not. I brought founder of the Solopreneur Academy, Sue Allen Clayton, back on The Stress Less Show, to give us some tips for managing illness and a successful business!

How to Be More Efficient in Your Career

How to Be More Efficient in Your Career

Happy New Year on The Stress Less Show! It is our first episode of the new year and the new decade and we are kicking our productivity into high gear this month by learning new tips on how to work less while achieving more! In this week’s episode, I am so excited to have executive coach, Erin Owen, back on the show to share some of her tried and true tips on how to be more efficient in our careers…

How Floating Can Improve Your Wellbeing

How Floating Can Improve Your Wellbeing

Okay, I can hear you now: “Floating? Carlee, what are you talking about??” I’m talking about float therapy! This month, I’ve been talking about treating ourselves this holiday season on The Stress Less Show and when I say treat ourselves, I don’t just mean eat an extra piece of pie at Christmas dinner! I’m talking about really listening to what we need to take care of ourselves. The holidays are a stressful time of year and there are always stressors that threaten our personal well being. We all need to find ways to step away from the holiday madness and really devote ourselves to our health and well-being. That is why I brought on Keri McGinn, owner of Halcyon Floats, to talk about how we can start taking care of our well-being and how float therapy can play a role in our self-care…

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