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Mary discusses staying calm and not getting our feathers ruffled. Turn off your reactor button. Not staying calm adds to the problem. Raising your awareness throughout the day. She cites a Wall Street Journal article about heart attacks and those who experienced them were upset at the same time the day before. We can’t make good choices when we’re upset. Road rage is not worth amping up our energy. Our phone is the new pacifier. Challenge: How many times a day do you lose your cool or patience? Do a Gut Check throughout the day. Staying calm takes a lot of restraint.  

Mary uses the Red Convertible analogy to give us a visual of the role our ego, emotions, and our gut play when making decisions.

At some point in our life, we just have to admit we’ve made bad choices and need to make a change. How to make better decisions more consistently. Put these tips in your back pocket for quick reference.

Mary speaks about noticing when we’re a time traveler; thinking about the past or worrying about the future, and how to stay in the moment. We can practice our skill of being an observing and really noticing what is going on during our and while interacting with others.

In this segment, Mary explains how to know where you’re making decisions from; your ego, your emotions, or your gut, and why it should be from your gut.

Mary shares how cultivating a rich interior can slay fear, anxiety, worry, and impatience. And, increase kindness, calmness, trust, courage, and creativity. We’re habitual beings and how we use our Signature Vocabulary and our Signature Responses can keep us stuck in our life. What are your go-to words and phrases?

Mary discusses being kind and if someone isn’t kind they most likely could be narcissistic or a bully. Being gracious, kind, and calm is attractive and deepens our relationships with others. Time flies when you’re dramatic, you have more time when you’re kind. We justify and rationalize not being nice to others and that makes us feel bad about ourselves. Being kind doesn’t mean you’re being a doormat. If someone is being unkind to you pause and stay quiet, it is really powerful. Mary also talks about The Artist Way and the Morning Pages.

Mary shares how patience is a gift we give to ourselves. She suggests a couple of simple exercises to help us develop more patience during our day. Also, how being gentle with ourselves and practicing self-care every day is important.

Gut knowingness is your highest self, giving you guidance. Discussion about how Wall Street traders trust their body signals from how they feel in their Gut. We all have a knowingness but, our ego is so swift. Stay in the “Something tells me.” Learn to trust what your body is telling you.  

Friend, Shanda, in-studio. In the Fall more people fall in love because we want to snuggle. We also can be vulnerable and go inside. Mary & Shanda discuss how confusion is a good thing and how we can get stuck and how to get out of the ‘stuckness’.  Our natural state is to flow. Keeping focus on our soul’s purpose, not our ego’s purpose. Keeping focus on our soul's purpose, not our ego's purpose.Tweet This

Mary talks about the importance of and how to cultivate a sense of surrender. The best thing about free will is that we have the free will to relinquish our free will. We’re here to act out our best self. It makes us vulnerable but, we become stronger for it. Your message is important. Cultivating [...]

Be self-aware of what your body is saying to you. We walk like Mr. Magoo throughout our day, through benign or critical decisions. Learn to be contemplative about your habits and typical conversation. What is your signature vocabulary – it is a clue how you will respond to others. What are your catch phrases? Change your [...]

Cultivate a rich interior to impact your exterior. About our Blessed Mother and praying The Rosary and the interior miracles. Change your consciousness, change your focus. Calms you down and gives tremendous patience.  15 Promises. The gift of the Rosary.  It doesn’t remove potent pain but, it helps you to manage it better, accept it [...]

Gut and Soul are synonymous. Your Gut speaks in a statement, a directive and it won’t give you a reason why to do or not to do something. Your Soul delivers you where you need to be. Your Gut is founded in truth and is courage-based. Don’t worry about your future. Your Gut trusts blindly. Trust [...]

Early morning is the best time to tap into your inspiration. Who do you ultimately want to be on a soulful level? In the bonus chapter in Go With Your Gut, The Soul of Your Gut. Your best work is inspired. Our ego is a very strong component of our personality. Lessen the emphasis of it. [...]

What is a soulful conversation and why is it so important? Be able to soothe your soul to better manage life’s twists and turns. A lot of life is admitting. We spend energy holding back our truth. Write out your Someday Vision. Whatever your faith is; know it, own it. Respond to life Soulfully. Our Soul [...]

Do you want to have a soulful conversation? Just admitting who we are and going after it. Our soul will lead us if we allow it to. The power of observing in life. Mention the problem once then focus on the solution. Whatever one practice that you can do when in a challenging situation that you [...]

Spirit is the verb of our Soul. Cultivate a deeper sense of ‘Okayness’. You can’t have meaningful without your soul. Find out what your potent prayer or mantra is. Take care of your body because your emotional life gets stored in your body. Breathe. Dissipate the energy that gets stored in your muscles. Start The Morning [...]

The Soulful part of Go With Your Gut. If we don’t have depth and richness and somewhere to go inside we’ll lean on others in crisis and they won’t ensure we’ll feel okay. Find your prayer, mantra, meditation, breathing, yoga, affirmations. What makes you stronger from the inside out? What is your mission? It has a [...]

I’m not a writer, I’m authoring what I’m inspired by. Get to that place inside. Then you don’t have to think up your life. Follow your decisions. What patterns and habits relative to decisions do you have? Stay calm, be kind, have patience, all good. Where do you go when you experience a disappointment, loss, [...]