Dear Tonya: Boredom, Elegance & Lashes

Dear Tonya: Boredom, Elegance & Lashes

I get questions from my ladies regularly on all kinds of topics. And what I generally do is save them so I can consider the answers, and answer them all together. But I put out a request for questions from my community recently and the response was overwhelming. So,...
Dealing with a Changing Body

Dealing with a Changing Body

It’s time for some real talk about a topic so many of us are affected by, but a lot of us don’t really want to acknowledge. Have you experienced weird and strange things happening to your body? For example, you wake up and have an ache that wasn’t there the day...
Thinking Highly of Yourself

Thinking Highly of Yourself

I was talking with a friend recently about how proud I was of what I’ve achieved. I was pretty much bragging on myself. And she pointed out that I must think really highly of myself. And I was like, “Yeah, shouldn’t we all?” There was also a moment during a class on...
Past vs. Future Action

Past vs. Future Action

Your life is being created by the moment to moment decisions and actions that you take. But what we often do is we just live on autopilot. We wake up thinking the same things, feeling the same ways, and taking the same actions. And then we wonder why nothing is...
Pre-Deciding Your Day

Pre-Deciding Your Day

Before I discovered personal development and the art of using my brain for me instead of against me, I used to wake up every morning thinking about what went wrong the day before. Sound familiar? This behavior is completely natural to us as humans. However,...