Lifestyle, Goals & Confidence Blog | Desiree Sommer, Certified Life Coach

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Change your Worst Stories, Feel Better, & Find a Brighter Tomorrow in One Fell Swoop

Last week I wrote about how our stories determine our futures, and how we can tell the difference between the facts of what happened to...

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To Change your Life, tell a Better Story

If you're having trouble un-sticking old patterns despite your best attempt to not keep repeat ing them, you might be missing a crucial...

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5 Unexpected Self Care Tips for the Holidays (for Women Only)

The last thing you need, when you’re guzzling eggnog like there’s no tomorrow & downing an entire Pecan Pie just to get you by, is to be...

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How to Deal with the Nay-sayers & Negative Nellies in your Life?

Dear Desirée: In this week’s column a reader asks, what do you do about an overbearing family member who’s hellbent on putting you down?...

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Make Your Life Leading Lady Worthy

Ready to play with your Inner Leading Lady? To let yourself show up, be seen and SHINE confidently? To bring the star power of you into...

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Four Ways to Embody Leading Lady Energy in Your Life

Feel like a guest star or supporting role in your own life? Always doing for others? Feel awkward in the limelight? Here’s four fun...

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Ten Offbeat Films Perfect for October Thrills & Chills

You can run, but you can’t hide from fear, that’s what Halloween and scary films teach us. And sometimes, in the safety or our own homes,...

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Does Fear Mean You're Not Ready?

In this week’s coaching column, a reader asks "How do you overcome fear and self-doubt so you can take action on your dream? Can you...

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Turn Envy Into a Treasure Map that Works for You

Jealousy. Envy. We all have it, whether we admit it or not. The question is how are you going to deal with it? Secretly seethe in...

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Better Friendships: The Bad Girl’s Guide to Decluttering Your Friend List.

If your girlfriend doesn’t spark joy, maybe you should consider letting her go. Let me ask you a question: Do you feel more like an...

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When a dream is going to take forever, should you quit?

In this week’s coaching column, a reader asks: Am I too old? Is this dream going to take to long? Should I quit? Read on to get the...

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The Real Secret to Being Happy

And how you can avoid the one Happiness Hook that steals so much of joy from us in our daily lives. It all starts with a very old story....

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The Pleasures of an Ordinary Life

One year, feeling like I was living a hopelessly ordinary life, feeling mired in the mundane and left behind by more adventurous friends,...

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The Art of Free Time (and how to make the most of it)

Free Time. When we’re working it’s often all we can think about… The moment when we get off work, the vacation time, the weekend, that...

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Making Time for a Well Lived Life

About a year or so ago I made a promise to stopping working so much, especially after work and on every weekend. But it didn't quite go...

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The Joys of the Slow Lane

Why going slow may be just the thing we all need to make our lives more meaningful and more sane. Not to mention infinitely more...

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12 Ways to Slow Down & Enjoy the Dog Days of Summer

It’s August and I don’t know about you, but in my neck of the woods that means it's the inescapably sultry & hot dog days of summer. “Now...

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Rambunctious puppies & How to Find What you Love

My days this summer lately have been spent trying to shape the unruly. No, not the garden this week, but my puppy, Bree, a rowdy...

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