Posts by Valerie Friedlander
Understanding Your Stress Language
Understanding your stress language will help you support yourself better when your response is triggered. It can also help you navigate your relatiohnships with others. Our society has a love-hate relationship with stress. We rely on it for a sense of productivity and we spend a lot of energy trying to prevent chronic stress from…
Read MoreYou’re More Than Your Personality Test
Lots of people love personality tests. Personality tests can definitely be fun and can also be helpful to normalize your experience of life. BUT the self-labeling that happens with personality tests can also create an identity box that limits you and holds you back in ways you don’t even notice. In this episode of Unlimited,…
Read MoreWhat is Life Coaching?
One of the questions I get asked most often is “What is life coaching?” That’s why episode #1 of Unlimited is all about life coaching! In this episode of Unlimited, the podcast, I’m sharing the importance of life coaching and how to understand this very popular, very helpful, but also very vague modality. Some of what…
Read MoreWelcome to Unlimited
Welcome to Unlimited! This podcast is for badass women who are on a journey to move beyond their learned limitations to live present, fun, and impactful lives. It’s about reaching for the stars while keeping your feet on the ground. I’m your host, Valerie Friedlander, CPC, ELI-MP. I’m a certified life/business alignment coach with over…
Read MoreYou Are NOT Too Much
You are NOT too much. Society constantly feeds women the message that we’re too much something or another. These messages are designed to keep us playing small. To keep us “in our place.” It’s time to deprogram our internalization of these stories. When I was young, I knew I was amazing. I was creative. I…
Read MoreHoliday Book Gift Guide: 7 Short, Powerful Reads for the Personal Development Lover
Holiday book gift guides are helpful because finding the perfect gift for a personal development book lover can be tricky with so many great options to choose from! Several years ago I wrote this blog to help you pick a low cost, high impact gift for a busy Mom who loves personal development. Since then I’ve…
Read MoreSustaining a healthy marriage
Hi lovely Mamas! Today we are continuing our conversation about relationships. And we are talking about intimate relationships such as with your spouse or significant other. As we all know, they change rather dramatically sometimes when we bring children into the picture. And this is because of a variety of reasons. Some of the key…
Read MoreCreating a Good Relationship With Your Kids
Creating a good relationship with your kids is something most parents want. Of course we all want to be an amazing parent for them. We want to help guide them, nurture them and support them. We’d also really like them learn from our mistakes and all the trials we’ve been through so we can keep…
Read MoreReleasing Perfectionism as a Multi-Passionate Mom
Releasing perfectionism as a multi-passionate Mom has been a big challenge in my life. Consciously, I believe that the most perfect you can be is authentically you and being authentically you is totally awesome! The thing is, there are times when I’ve struggled to embrace being perfectly authentic for me. Times when I tried really…
Read MoreWhat’s Wrong With the “Power of Positivity”?
What’s wrong with the “power of positivity?” Well, nothing intrinsically. The problem is actually judgment. Most people equate positivity with “good” and negativity with “bad.” This thinking leads many of us to deny, avoid, and beat themselves up over “negative” emotions and thoughts. I see this time and again with Moms and have experienced it…
Read More