
Here Goes -
Here Goes - I’ll be honest, even though I am a writer and life coach, I have avoided writing and publishing my blog because I was afraid of appearing imperfect. How would people find me “legitimate” when I have so much to work on in my own life? For a long time I let it paralyze me. And then I realized, my story of imperfection IS my gift. In my own defense, I have to say out loud that it’s not my ONLY gift. I am good at what I do. I am intuitive, empathetic, compassionate

Emotional and Physical Pain Activate Similar Brain Regions
When people feel emotional pain, the same areas of the brain get activated as when people feel physical pain: the anterior insula and the anterior cingulate cortex. ...Over the course of evolution, our bodies decided to take the economy route and use a single neural system to detect and feel pain, regardless of whether it is emotional or physical... Pain, of course, is always both a physical and an emotional experience. If I stub my toe, in addition to the physical pain, I am