Are You Living out Your Values? Why Values Provide the Roadmap to Living a Purpose Driven Life
Values are defined as “a person's principles or standards of behavior; one's judgment of what is important in life.” A person’s values are guidepost along the road of life. When we get off track and don’t live by these deep-seated beliefs, we don’t think, feel, or act...
Crush Your ANTS! How to Kill Your Automatic Negative Thoughts (ANTS)
Automatic negative thoughts (ANTs) are just like they sound, negative, random thoughts that we think about ourselves.ANTs are often gloomy, depressing & fatalistic. They sound like: "Nobody likes me", "It will never work out", "I just know something will go wrong,...
Emotional Numbing. Why Avoiding Your Pain is Compounding Your Problems
A mistake often made by those who suffer from anxiety and post traumatic experiences is utilizing emotional numbing as a primary mechanism to cope with their mental distress. Emotional numbing is defined as “process of shutting out feelings and can be experienced...
The Blame and Shame Game of Trauma Brain (Understanding How Your ‘Irrational Reactions’ are Normal and Not ‘Bad Behavior’)
People with trauma experiences spend too much time blaming and shaming themselves for human stress responses that are physiologically beyond their control, yet they believe they should be able to control them. When I was a young EMT working on an ambulance, I...
What is Trauma? Types, Symptoms, Brain Science and Trauma Informed Healing
What is Trauma? Psychology Today states, “Trauma is a person’s emotional response to a distressing experience. Few people can go through life without encountering some kind of trauma. Unlike ordinary hardships, traumatic events tend to be sudden and unpredictable,...
Worry Much? Why ‘Future Tripping’ is Keeping You from Getting Sh!t Done!
Ever lay in bed at night unable to fall asleep because your mind was racing thinking about all the things you must do and don’t know how you are going to find the time, energy, or resources to do them? Your heart starts racing, you break out into a sweat and the...
Got Coach? The Value of Working with a Life & Mental Health Coach
To hire or not to hire a coach, that is the question. The purpose of this blog is to help clarify what a coach is, what a coach is not, how a coach can help create life changing results, and how investing in a coach can be worth ten-fold the return on your investment....
Shut the Back Door! Getting Past Your Past. 3 Steps to Stop Living in the Past Now!
Why do so many of us hold onto our awful past? We desperately want to move away from the toxic soup of invasive memories, yet we’re drawn back like a moth to a flame. How do we jump off this crazy train, this never-ending thought loop of dysfunction and despair? The...
HO, HO, Holy Cow! Overwhelm and the Holidays! 3 Steps to Keep Calm & Carry On this Holiday Season.
My family calls me the Grinch. They think I hate Christmas. Truth be told, I am not a huge fan of the timeframe between Nov 23-Jan 2nd. Why? Am I just a cranky old lady who wants everyone to get off her lawn? Well partially yes, BUT NO! The reason I act so moody is...
The Passive Income Nurse Podcast- Episode #78 (Part 2)
NURSE SPOTLIGHT SERIES: ”What Better Thing to Invest in than Your Mind?” - Interview with Nurse & Life + Mental Health Coach, Char Marie [PART2] Welcome back to our NURSE SPOTLIGHT SERIES!! In this series, I am interviewing nurses, just like you, who have started...
The Passive Income Nurse Podcast- Episode #77 (Part 1)
NURSE SPOTLIGHT SERIES: ”As Nurses, we are Coaches at Heart” - Interview with Nurse & Life + Mental Health Coach, Char Marie [PART1] Welcome back to our NURSE SPOTLIGHT SERIES!! In this series, I am interviewing nurses, just like you, who have started their own...
Overcoming Anxious Thoughts- Stop Letting Anxiety Rule the Roost
The number one question I get from people who experience anxiety that keeps them stuck and from accomplish goals is: How do I overcome my anxious thoughts? This blog is going to provide you with the absolute most effective strategies I use to help women take control...
An Origin Story… PTSD, Depression & Anxiety-OH MY!
I’m Char- Coach, RN, and 30-year veteran healthcare leader & innovator. More importantly, I am a mother, wife, daughter, sister, friend & critter rescuer. I have overcome a whole bunch of bullsh!t to become the successful thought leader I am today. I also have...
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Charlene Zielin is a Success & Business Coach whose mission is to help professionals achieve more success, balance and joy at work and home.
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