Ten reasons why there’s actually NOT something wrong with you

When we start working together, so many of my clients have this deep belief that there’s something wrong with them. It’s a misunderstanding, and here are ten solid reasons why it’s untrue.

Allowing Yourself to Feel It All

Rather than trying to control your emotions, letting yourself feel them will give you more freedom and help you to feel empowered in your life. It’s a simple shift in perspective that creates lightness, ease, and freedom within yourself. You don’t have to try to control your emotions anymore. You just need to let yourself feel them.

Angst, Exhaustion, Impatience, Oh My!

Learn about your Zone of Optimal Arousal so that you can support yourself in getting out of overwhelm, anxiety, and exhaustion. Highly Sensitive People or HSPs tend to have a smaller zone of optimal arousal and need more tools in order to come back to a place of feeling calm, happy, and peaceful. This helpful tool will do just that.

Understanding SensitivityAngie IlgSeptember 25, 2020Angie Ilghsp, highly sensitive person, anxiety, overwhelm, nervous system, empowerment, hsp toolsComment

Does the world move too fast for you?

When we go against our natural rhythm, it can lead to exhaustion, anxiety, and overwhelm among other things. Learn how and why to allow yourself to rest, pause, and do less, so that you can have more energy, feel happier, and feel more like yourself. If you’re HSP (a Highly Sensitive Person), you may have a biological reason for needing more rest and downtime. Gain knowledge I use in life coaching to help people know and honor what pace works for them.

What would you do with a life changing opportunity?

When we feel stuck in life, sometimes what we need is a good dose of courage. If we’re willing to look within ourselves and face what’s there, we become free. From there, we can gain clarity and learn how to just be ourselves. We go from powerlessness to empowered, and insecurity to self-confidence. Life coaching can help you have the motivation for this type of work.

A powerful calming tool at the tip of your fingers ✨

Studies have shown that putting pen to paper can activate different parts of our brain, and help us gain clarity. Use these journaling prompts to make the most of a challenging time, and help sort through confusion or just living life status quo. You have the power to go from overwhelm and confusion to peace, calm, and clarity.

Let yourself be where you're at ❤️

Four powerful life coaching tools you can use no matter what you’re feeling. In these uncertain times, many of us are feeling overwhelmed and anxious, especially HSPs (Highly Sensitive People). That’s because our nervous system is being asked of a lot right now. Self-acceptance is the best practice - allowing yourself to be exactly where you’re at.

Could you use some relief and some clarity right now?

With all that’s going on in the world, you might feel overwhelmed and feel waves of emotions. If you’re a highly sensitive person (HSP) you may feel this more than others. Journaling is a powerful tool I use as a life coach to help people gain clarity, have more ease, and find direction in their lives. Use these journaling prompts to slow down and hear your own inner voice.

In times of uncertainty, you can be sure of this ✨

Life is really uncertain, and when we’re uncomfortable with uncertainty, unfortunately it can create a lot of suffering in our life. It can even lead to anxiety disorders like OCD. But when we can learn to embrace uncertainty by living according to our values, we go from feeling controlled by our emotions and our circumstances to being in control of our lives. We can begin to feel empowered again.

The "I'm not doing enough" lie

Learn how to feel like you’re doing enough by using this shift in perspective, and finally start to feel ok resting and relaxing. We often feel overwhelmed and overworked, yet think we need to keep going and do more. The truth is you’re doing enough, and there is a lot of value in resting, play, and pleasure. Gain self-worth by not putting all your worth in your productivity.

On Being SensitiveAngie IlgFebruary 20, 2020Angie Ilgself-worth, hsp, highly sensitive person, play and pleasureComment

A Surprising Reason for Overwhelm

Overwhelm isn’t just about having too much on your plate, or thinking too many steps ahead. It can also come from overly-embodying masculine energy, and discounting the value of feminine energy. In this article I break down common misunderstandings about these energies, so that you can begin to feel more harmony and balance in your life, and feel like you can catch a deep breath again.

Overthink much? Time to DECIDE.

Overthinking is the worst. Ami right? Especially when it comes to decisions. We can go back and forth and drive ourselves crazy. Learn a simple decision-making life coaching tool , practical ways to experiment with better decision making, and some ways you can use decisions that you probably haven’t thought of yet.

Could your self-talk use an upgrade?

Our inner critical voice can be so loud sometimes. At times we might not even be able to distinguish between ourselves and this voice. But there are tools we can use to tune in to our true self, and hear our loving inner voice, so that we can begin to be kinder to ourselves. This allows us to feel happier and more content in life.

When "YES" will set you free ✨

If you’re feeling stuck, or life is just feeling status quo, it might be a sign that you’re resisting doing what scares you (but deep down you know is best). Often we resist change because it feels safer or we feel more in control that way. It may feel safer but it also feels extremely limiting. But when we lean in and say “yes” (to whatever that next step is) our life begins to open up. It may feel scary, but you will also feel more alive. Use these perspectives to help clarify your next step and feel more confident moving forward.

Sensitivity ToolsAngie IlgNovember 21, 2019Angie Ilgresisting change, hsp, highly sensitive person, courage, feeling stuck, facing fearComment

The Magic of SIMPLICITY ✨

Life in the world we live in can so easily be chaotic and noisy. All this noise can create self-doubt, confusion, anxiety, and overwhelm. When we find ways to simplify our life, not only does it help create more peace and calm, but it also creates less anxiety and overwhelm, because in the magic of simplicity, we’re able to hear our own inner guidance more, and learn to trust that.

Doing less, trusting more ✨

In our culture, we often identify our worth with our busyness, and wear busyness as a badge of honor. But all this running around can leave us exhausted and disconnected. It’s empowering to realize how much of a choice you have in what and how much you do, and that you have more of a say than you think. With this shift, you can start to prioritize and live according to your values. What a breath of fresh air and way less burden to carry.

Doubting yourself vs. TRUSTING yourself ✨

How many ways do we doubt ourselves? Let me count the ways! It’s become so ingrained in our culture, especially if you identify as a woman, to doubt yourself - what you do, how you dress, how much you do, what you say, what you look like… Yet, this is not our natural state. We weren’t born doubting. We learned to doubt. And we can make the empowered CHOICE to begin to TRUST. Yes, it’s a choice, and it can be practiced and learned.

Who are you really? And why that question matters

In a culture that expects us to be constantly productive, and lives little time or wisdom for slowing down, it’s easy to become disconnected with the truth of who we are. I work with coaching clients all the time who feel this way - they don’t have a clear sense of their true self. But who we are is underneath all that pressure and busyness. It’s there in the stillness. It’s our essence, and it can never be taken away or lost, only recovered.

3 (More) Life Lessons from Planning a Wedding

We can learn so much through any experience we go through in life, especially the ones that stretch us and require change. Here are three valuable lessons gained during planning a wedding, that you can apply to all of life, including better decision-making skills, how to receive support, and how to stop people-pleasing so much!

How to Shift out of Panic and Overwhelm

If you’re feeling overwhelmed or in a state of panic, your first instinct may be to run from this or find a way to cope. But I want to offer you a more helpful, effective approach, where you can feel empowered, and create more freedom in your experience. When we resist what’s happening, it grows stronger. But when we have tools to work with our experience, then we can move forward and feel lighter and happier overall.