When we make mistakes, we might rush to beat ourselves up. But—don’t forget to ask whether the stories are even true. Perhaps our shame and fear convinces us that we are solely to blame, when in fact, we are simply human.

When you’re dealing with parasitic energy, you’ve got to learn how to recognize that it’s at work and how it’s impacting you. Here are 5 choices for dealing with parasitic energy.

We’ve all been there, before: in a place of negative mental rumination where we’re tossed around by our thoughts. When we start watching the watcher, we engage with a presence-based practice where we step outside of our frantic thinking and into feeling more grounded in ourselves. Here’s how.

Sometimes we talk ourselves out of our dreams with this thought: It’s a lot of work. Really? It’s a lot of fear. Fear tells us that something will be a lot of work—too much work—as a tactic to get us to back down. You can choose something different.