Self talk to step into your own power.

This piece is a shout out to the wonderful highly sensitive men. About 20 percent of men have the gift of high sensitivity, which is the same percentage as women. In this interview, I talked to my dear friend Kurtis Hooley, about his experiences as a sensitive in relationships, in life and in the corporate world.

And on and on my saga with fear continues. Fear is the hunter and I am the prey. Now what if I turn this situation around and stop being the huntee? No more chicken hiding in the roost. Say hello to bald eagle soaring up to my nest in the sky. My self talk can help free me from fear.

I tell myself about how capable I am and how resilient. I remind myself of the other difficult times I have lived through and how I prevailed.

New positive self talk book written especially for Highly Sensitive Women is now a bestseller.

Laughing is so good for us. It raises our immune systems, lowers our stress hormones, it lightens the load we carry, it makes us feel closer to each other. Fear melts away when we laugh. And when fear melts away, our hearts open and feel love for ourselves, for others, and for this planet that we are sharing.

What do you want to do despite your fear? Fear is interesting. Sometimes fear indicates that there is something that’s not in my best interest to do. Sometimes fear means no. Sometimes fear is obscuring a big yes. Sometimes I’m not even that scared of the present situation but old fears from the past have been triggered back to life. My self talk can help me figure out the difference and tap into the yes behind fear.

In Self Talk Love for Sensitives, Ease Anxiety and Awaken to the Gifts of Being A Highly Sensitive Woman by Maryse Cardin you will learn to: calm an overwhelmed nervous system, ease anxiety and hypervigilance, become aware and validate your power to sense energy, and learn new loving and positive self talk skills.

September is here. It's time to turn on my internal GPS, listen and create. When I'm listenning to my inner guide I am empowered. What do you dream of right now? What does your internal GPS, your guide, have to say? What do you want to dream into being? What feels like yes?

This inner love life is precious and can be fulfilling and healing. There’s no way that someone else -- even if they love me lots - can fill a hole that I may have inside. Only I can do that. Positive and loving self talk can lead me there.

So truly forget your perfect offering and go for your authentic contribution. Whatever calls you, go for it. Make it yours

Some say people don’t really change. I believe they do. People change when they set an intention to change and when they do the work that transformation entails.

A lovely conversation on the podcast Where Money Meets the Soul about the power of self talk to heal and make our dreams come true.

This is earthing time. No cell phone. No reading. Be still. Give your nervous system a chance to relax, however many minutes that takes. Everything else can wait. You are connecting right now with the earth, with your self.

Yes, we are truly worthy of respect for the endurance that we have shown. We have done our best. We have been very capable. We can salute ourselves for that. Big pat on the back. Well done you! Now carry on. Chop wood. Carry water. Do what needs doing. And do it with Love.

What would it look like to be your own loyal friend? Can you imagine the comfort, the relief, the support, and the sense of being loved that you would get by being in the presence of such a being?

This is where trust comes in. To trust that when the moment is right, what you need to see will be illuminated. You will know the direction or the next step.

When my self talk is filled with criticism, recriminations, regrets and put downs that go on and on, I turn to these tried-and-true techniques to get a break from the inner critic.

You, my friend, deserve to be spoken to like someone who matters. You can start right now with kind and gentle self talk. No matter who you are, or what you have done or that's been done to you, compassion is your birthright.

You might as well give some of the love, time and focus you are so good at giving others to yourself. Why not give it a go and see what happens. When you love all of you, even the yucky parts, that’s when self love has a chance to bloom.