Brilliant Balance Blog

We are hitting the midway point of August, which means every mother I know (including me!) is starting to feel like she’s running out of time. Whether your kids have already started school or the clock is ticking on that back-to-school countdown, this is a moment when we all start to feel a lot of…

No, you’re not just imagining it – anxiety is actually everywhere. In fact, anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the United States, affecting more than 40 million adults. And if you do the math, that’s 18% of the U.S. population every year that is dealing with anxiety. So, odds are that you’re…

I work with a lot of entrepreneurs as clients. And it is a struggle to get away from the business when it is your business. There’s a lot of fear about what happens if you step away, or take your eye off the ball for an extended period of time. This could be a weeklong…

As humans, we tend to make happiness very complicated. We withhold happiness for ourselves, we delay gratification, and we believe we only deserve to be happy when every little thing is perfectly in its place. To put it another way, we tend to connect our happiness to some carrot we’re dangling in front of ourselves.…

It’s another typical morning in your house. You open your eyes, turn off your alarm, and then lay back down briefly, stretching your arms and your legs as far as they can reach, sending a message to your body that it’s time to start moving. As your feet hit the ground, you might already be…