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Life presents the toughest challenges.

Every day you are faced with decisions that test your ability to express who you really want to be in this world.

We're told to keep saying affirmations

and keep thinking positively,

but what do you do when that stuff doesn't work?

Welcome to the overwhelmed brain

where you'll learn to make decisions that are right for you so that you

can create the life you want now. Hello and I am here to help you increase your emotional

intelligence so that you can avoid dysfunction, handle toxic situations with

grace and ease, and show up as your authentic self.

Everything I talk about on this show is my personal opinion

and is meant for informational and educational purposes only.

Always consult a medical or psychological professional

before making any changes that could affect your physical or mental health.

All right, welcome to the show. Today I'm going to talk about an exercise that I presented on a couple

episodes on what is it figuring out why you're unhappy and one of the exercises

I called the mind map and I know it's not original but it's using a mind map to help you figure out what associations in your

life are making you unhappy and what I mean by that is you put your name on a piece of paper and maybe you could put a circle around it and then you draw a line to another circle and that circle represents something in your life that has an emotional attachment of some sort.

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