Dealing with your emotions is like dealing with a two-year-old. Logic won’t get you very far. You need to bring out your wise and loving inner parent. Easier said than done, given that no one had any good role models, your parents neither.

Remember drawing paint-by-numbers pictures as a kid? A similar process helps to go from being stuck to moving forward again.

Let’s talk about your feelings, shall we – said no man ever. When you want to make a change that you know is in your best interest but you feel resistance, it is a clue that you have some emotional reaction to the change you want to make. What trips us up is that most of us can’t pinpoint exactly what it is.