From Toxic To Happiness: Honouring Your Preferences

When is the last time you heard about a toxic workplace, family, relationship – or anything “toxic”, really. It’s a popular term. A lot of things seem to be “toxic” these days. You hear about it all the time. Meanwhile everyone also talks about self-love and self-care.  Is there an unexplored disconnect here? The difference between the two is that almost nobody practices self-care and self-love…

Honouring your preferences

Instead of waiting for all-the-way, full-on “toxic” before changing something, self-care could mean to take action and change something simply because you don’t like it? It didn’t have to get all the way “toxic”, but you could change something in your life, even just out of a slight preference for things to be different?

In my Happiness book I share my not so pretty story about depression and how I initially used travel as a mechanism to get away from a life I didn’t even like to begin with. In that process of self-discovery, I’ve burned myself out several times. I was …