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Jun 20

10 Research-Based Reasons Compassion is Transformative

By Helen MacMillan + Happiness, Success No Comments

“The formula for true success includes being consistent, courageous, clear, compassionate and focused.” ~ Helen MacMillan Compassion may be the single most important attribute for achieving success and happiness in your life. There are many research-based findings that bear this out. Here is what science has learned that backs up what we already know in our heart. Compassion makes us happy – as happy as receiving money! Jordan Grafman, Neuroscientist at the National Institute of Health found that pleasure centers…

Jan 05

Navigating Self Doubt and Negativity – Emerging Powerful

By Helen MacMillan + Business Growth, Personal Growth, Success No Comments

The darkness was upon her. She could feel the familiar heaviness creeping into her chest. Her mind becoming foggy as the weight of self doubt descended upon her. It happened in an instant. Triggered by a simple comment from a friend. Tumbling headlong into the darkness she was oblivious to the rest of the conversation. Her mind down the rabbit hole of negativity in a flash. She felt helpless to stop it. The tears begin to flow. She reaches up…

Feb 03

3 Tips For Handling Your “Perfect Storm”

By Helen MacMillan + Business Growth, Personal Growth, Self Care One Comment

There’s been some huge shifting going on recently on the planet. Can you feel it? I’m not much of an astrology buff, but I have some pretty cool friends who are and I’ve been reliably informed that the planet Mercury has been in retrograde since January 21st. When this happens it’s an opportunity for clearing old patterns and stuff comes up to be healed and released. This can look like the sh#t hitting the fan! 🙁 In the last 3…

Dec 12

AnnaKay’s Gift

By Helen MacMillan + Personal Growth, Uncategorized 7 Comments

Last week I got the devastating news that a dear friend and past-client of mine had committed suicide. My initial reaction was one of anger and denial: “They better investigate this as a homicide because she would NEVER take her own life!”. The person I thought I knew so well was gregarious, joyful, outgoing and outspoken. Although she was divorced, she had an amazing support structure and loving relationships with family and friends. Her business was booming. She had 2…

Jul 29

Getting Off The Emotional Roller Coaster

By Helen MacMillan + Business Growth, Personal Growth, Self Care 2 Comments

Growing up I was often told I was being “too emotional”. In response to my emotional outbursts my mother would tell me, “All of life is in your mind!”, which I interpreted at the time as “get a hold of yourself and snap out of it”. Unable to understand the profound truth in that statement, I simply felt dismissed, unheard and misunderstood (as many teenagers are apt to do). But, like so much else else, her words were stored in…

Apr 03

The Power of Feeling “Good”

By Helen MacMillan + Business Growth, Personal Growth, Self Care 4 Comments

I am, unapologetically, a big fan of feeling “good”! (happy, contented, joyful, peaceful, calm). Having spent a good chunk of my early life depressed and feeling bad, riding the emotional roller coaster of doubt, fear, shame, judgement, criticism and comparison. I’m soooo over that! 🙂 I wouldn’t change a thing about my past. Inherent in each experience was a gift: a lesson, a healing, an opportunity. It is how we interpret a situation and respond to it that determines our…

Aug 26

Small changes. Big Difference.

By Helen MacMillan + Personal Growth 14 Comments

I am passionate about life. Not just existing, going through the motions each day, but truly living. Waking up each day feeling grateful for my life and joyfully anticipating my day. Feeling free! I didn’t always feel this way though. There were many periods in my life that I dreaded a new day. Not wanting to wake up. Being pissed off that I had woken up at all! I was one of the “walking dead”. I did things because I…

Aug 19

Feeling Challenged?

By Helen MacMillan + Personal Growth 7 Comments

Why is is that we seem to feel ashamed when we are being challenged in our lives? As if we “shouldn’t” have problems? I’ve noticed It seems to be even more challenging the smarter and more successful we become. We feel we “should”: … know better … be able to handle it alone … not even be feeling the way we feel! These judgements often cause us to withdraw and not want to talk about what’s going on, even with our…

Feb 09

The POWER of choice

By Helen MacMillan + Personal Growth, Uncategorized 11 Comments

I “suffered” with bouts of depression for most of my teenage years and on and off through my 20’s, 30’s and early 40’s. What I now understand is that my depression was simply anger turned inward. I happened to be angry for all kinds of reasons: because I didn’t get the attention I wanted; I was made to do things I really didn’t want to and made to feel quite powerless; I was told how I “should” be, or that how…