Your Favorite You Melissa Parsons

Last week, we talked about the difference between accepting yourself for who you are and tolerating a life you don't love. This week, I’m back to talk about specific ways you can practice acceptance. We’ll look at several methods to help you practice, such as reframing your negative thoughts and recognizing impermanence. No matter where you are on your journey of self-acceptance, I hope you can use these methods to gain the confidence to be exactly you.When you can accept yourself, you can be...

How can we shift from tolerating a life we don't love to embracing acceptance and making the changes we might be afraid to make?When I talk about tolerance, I’m referring to enduring circumstances or situations that don't align with our desires and values. Even if you accept those circumstances, you do not have to tolerate them.In this episode, we’ll talk about the steps you can take to stop tolerating less than you deserve and accept yourself and your reality without judgment or resistance.&...

I’m so grateful to have my former client Kate Mowery as a guest today to share how her coaching experience has impacted her life.Before coaching, Kate was dealing with too much stress from saying “Yes” to everything at work and not having any patience left for her family by the time she got home. Kate knew she needed to take better care of herself, so she made the decision to start coaching. Now, Kate’s favorite Kate says “No” when she doesn't want to do something, has her own woodworki...

Could coaching be the missing link to help you love your life?Maybe you need to have more compassion for yourself or need to trust yourself more. Women get help with so many aspects of their life when they work with a general life coach, like me.I want to share the magic of coaching with all of you, so I’ve gathered some coaching takeaways from women I have worked with. I hope that as you listen to this episode and hear about the positive impact coaching has, it will help you determine if coa...

When you look back on your life, do you regret more of the things you did do or the things you didn’t?Today, my amazing guest Sarah Wittry talks with me about regret from her very interesting perspective. Sarah is both a physician who works in palliative care and hospice medicine and a life coach. Being honest with people at the end of their lives as well as helping humans live a life with as little regret as possible has given her the wisdom she shares with us in this episode.We’ll talk abou...

Your self-worth isn't tied to anything but being exactly you. It shouldn't depend on your achievements, career, family, relationship status, or bank account, but sometimes it’s difficult to see past that. Do external things like these have an impact on your self-worth?In my coaching practice, I have helped women untether themselves from these old, well-worn pathways that they don’t have to walk anymore. In this episode of the podcast, I’ll help you understand how you can do that too.Whatever ...