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What Fear-Based Beliefs Are Sabotaging Your Happiness?

Life is what we make it when we choose to retain and own our personal power. Sometimes we give our personal power away to others and sometimes we give it away to life events or things that happen to us. But often times we give our personal power away to our own fears and the beliefs that spring from these fears. For example, a lady in her mid-50s came to me anonymously several years back. She wanted to talk about the fact that she was divorcing her husband. She said he had been unfaithful and she made it clear to me that she lived by this ironclad rule or belief: “If my husband ever cheats on me, it’s over. I will divorce him.” I asked her to explain what had happened and she told me the following. She and her husband had been married for 26 years. They had known each other since high school. He had lots of friends from his college days that he still socialized with. In fact, they got together every Thursday night for a boys night out where they played poker. Everyone gat...