As I recorded this episode, the Sonoma County fires of 2019 were happening--and I live in Sonoma County, approximately 20 miles from the initial origin of the fires. I wanted to share an episode on handling difficult situations and use challenging circumstances such as these fires and how they have impacted myself and my community, to highlight ways of handling difficult situations.

Today’s Your Courageous Life podcast episode offers some help with perfectionism. Often, people say they know they are perfectionists, but they have less of an idea of what to actually *do* about perfectionism. How do we stop getting stuck in the cycle of perfectionism? Today’s episode breaks down how perfectionism shows up and what we can do to notice it and change our habits.

It’s time to stop people-pleasing. Some people know that people-pleasing is an issue that needs to stop, and others may think it’s not an issue--but in fact, there may be some hidden areas where, under the right circumstances, you unconsciously go into people-pleasing mode. Fact: you can never please everyone. We know this logically, yet when we try to stop people-pleasing it all feels murky and more complicated. Today’s Your Courageous Life podcast episode is going to break down people-pleasing and give you small, doable ways to not get caught in the people-pleasing habit.

We often wonder how to become happy, or expect that happiness is the natural outcome of self-help work. Actually, we become whole.