by Dionne Thomson | May 21, 2023 | Hot Mess to Awesomeness
Maybe instead of forcing ourselves to relax, we need to take a look at why we feel the need to stay busy!?! When I worked a 9-5, it meant 2 days off from my J.O.B…2 days to unwind and relax! But was that really true? More often than not, I just exchanged one...
by Dionne Thomson | Apr 22, 2023 | Hot Mess to Awesomeness
The short answer…practice! The habit of putting yourself last is built the same way every habit is built, by practicing certain beliefs, thoughts, feelings and behaviours…In this case the beliefs are fuelled by fear, the thoughts and feelings are wrapped...
by Dionne Thomson | Mar 18, 2023 | Hot Mess to Awesomeness
The more you know the more you realize how much you don’t know! This is how I felt (and how I often still feel) going through my own healing journey. I experienced a deep awareness, combined with crippling overwhelm in the years right after my children were...
by Dionne Thomson | Jan 28, 2023 | Hot Mess to Awesomeness
Say it with me… Pleasure is not a dirty word! At our last Hot Mess to Awesomeness Society Meeting, halfway through a beautiful moment of connection and growth, I was stuck by a sense of fear, wrongness, almost ‘dirtiness’ (aka shame). Each woman...
by Dionne Thomson | Jan 1, 2023 | Hot Mess to Awesomeness
I have some pretty shitty days (perhaps you can relate) and I’ve noticed that sometimes it only takes a couple of shitty minutes to spin my day out of control. It’s like I’m driving by a car crash or having an out-of-body experience…watching from the other side,...
by Dionne Thomson | Jan 12, 2022 | Hot Mess to Awesomeness
If you wrote down every thought that ran through your head throughout the day, would most of them be thoughts that led to or connected directly to the belief that you CAN and DESERVE to be happy? Many people feel like happiness eludes them… That it has something...
