I’m doing my best to mindfully raise my son to feel safe and encouraged to express himself. – Karen Salmansohn
I describe a soulmate as a ‘soul-nurturing mate’ – someone who nurtures your soul – thereby promoting insight and growth. – Karen Salmansohn
Only allow yourself to think negative thoughts and/or complain about anything for three minutes, three times a day. – Karen Salmansohn
I’m a huge fan of meditation. I know lots of people assume meditation to be some Buddhist mumbo-jumbo, but it’s been scientifically documented to create therapeutic changes in the brain. – Karen Salmansohn
When you’re warm and approachable, you don’t have to go up and talk non-stop to someone in a social situation. You just have to be open to the conversations you’re already having – and warm and receptive to the people you’re meeting. – Karen Salmansohn
If you want to love your life more, you can begin by living and loving more of it – by zestfully living and loving every teeny-tiny, gorgeously-detailed minutiae moment! – Karen Salmansohn
The next time you find yourself racing quickly down the street, know that you’re not only running to your next appointment, you are literally running from contact with your truest feelings, deepest needs and most valuable insights. – Karen Salmansohn
I recognized that I needed to re-train my brain to stop eating like I wanted to punish myself or punish someone else. I needed to re-learn how to eat like I loved myself, and want to nourish and support myself. – Karen Salmansohn
Basically, discipline, effort, patience and courage are hugely important core values for kids to grow up embracing. – Karen Salmansohn
Stop bragging about your lack of sweat and effort in achieving your goals. Start bragging about how hard you work, how patient you’ve become. – Karen Salmansohn
Cultivate the habit of zest. Purposefully seek out the beauty in the seemingly trivial. Especially in the trivial. The colors and shapes of the foods you eat. The shadows a vase makes on your table. The interesting faces of the people on the bus with you. – Karen Salmansohn
You’re not looking for perfection in your partner. Perfection is all about the ego. With soulmate love, you know that true love is what happens when disappointment sets in – and you’re willing to deal maturely with these disappointments. – Karen Salmansohn
The more you stay with and/or complain about a toxic person, the more you’re merely delaying doing the important inner work you need to do – to heal your wounds, expand your limiting beliefs, and show yourself far more love and respect. – Karen Salmansohn
The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone. – Karen Salmansohn
It seems every morning I wake up to face a list of 20 things to do, with time only to do 10, and somehow I always wind up squishing in 30. – Karen Salmansohn
Power might feel tasty and good in the moment, but it will never be satisfying, never fill you up. Yep, no matter how much power you get, you will always feel empty. You just keep wanting more and more power. – Karen Salmansohn
You know you’re living with the habit of zest if you purposefully choose the scenic route to wherever you are going. Or you choose clothing because you love the texture of the fabric. Or you pick a shampoo or cleaning product because you love the smell – smell being just as important to you as how the product works. – Karen Salmansohn
Stop allowing yourself to focus on depressing life circumstances – including focusing on being depressed about your weight. All this negative focus will only lead you to feeling bummed and wanting to pig out. Instead, consciously focus on happy life circumstances you enjoy doing, and create more of them! – Karen Salmansohn
I believe whoever has the most energy wins. You need energy to win at your relationship, win in your career, win as a parent, win at being your highest potential self. – Karen Salmansohn
A lot of people love to do affirmations first thing in the morning – to keep themselves feeling peppy and positive. – Karen Salmansohn
Your subconscious’s goal is to recreate unresolved childhood issues and then hopefully mend them. – Karen Salmansohn
If you’re a good choice maker, you can choose the best emotional responses and choose the best new life paths, forward and upward. – Karen Salmansohn
Indeed, many of life’s most fun and pleasurable choices come with potential dangers. It’s important for my son to grow up recognizing that what might appear exciting or inviting at first glance could also have eventual negative consequences. – Karen Salmansohn
All my life, my immediate response to emotional pain has been to make jokes. Lots of jokes. – Karen Salmansohn
I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it’s good to make thoughtful, good choices. – Karen Salmansohn
Volunteering is a great way to look outside your own problems. Giving back to makes you happier by both giving you a sense of purpose and helping to put your problems in perspective. – Karen Salmansohn
I’m a big believer that your life is basically a sum of all the choices you make. The better your choices, the better opportunity to lead a happy life. – Karen Salmansohn
Basically, a bad breakup is never meant to teach you ‘I’ll never fall in love again.’ It’s meant to teach you ‘Now I better know what makes for healthful, happy love – and thanks to this breakup I’m now better able to recognize it and snag it!’ – Karen Salmansohn
It’s not enough to just mildly want what you want. You must wildly want what you want. Nobody ever got their greatest wishes by being wishy-washy. You need to put extreme energy into your power of intention to win what you wanna win. – Karen Salmansohn
Basically, Aristotle believed that every time you behaved unkind and immorally – performing actions your soul was not proud of – you tarnished your soul. The worst shape your soul became in, the worst shape your mood and spirit. – Karen Salmansohn
