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How to Upgrade Your Life by Improving Your Thought Life

Some frameworks to improve your internal dialogue

18 min readOct 23, 2020

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Barb Nangle

How to Embrace Flexibility and Bust the Myth of Life Balance for Good

If you’ve ever felt like you keep trying to get to balance but are not able to get there because you keep getting thrown off, this essay is…

5 min read2 days ago

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How to Embrace Flexibility and Bust the Myth of Life Balance for Good

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Barb Nangle

One of the insights I gained early in my recovery journey was that I’d been expecting people to…

As I talked with others on my recovery journey with me, we realized that was true for all of us. And the reason we wanted people to read…

5 min readApr 26, 2024

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One of the insights I gained early in my recovery journey was that I’d been expecting people to…

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Barb Nangle

How to Navigate Between Two Kinds of Discomfort for Chaos or Growth

There are two kinds of “uncomfortable.” The first might come up if you grew up in a chaotic and dysfunctional family like I did. That means…

5 min readApr 19, 2024

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How to Navigate Between Two Kinds of Discomfort for Chaos or Growth

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One Incredible Strategy for Reducing and Managing Emotional Pain

Emotional pain sucks. Sometimes, it’s worse than physical pain. I’ve got some ways for you to reduce the amount and frequency of your…

9 min readApr 12, 2024

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One Incredible Strategy for Reducing and Managing Emotional Pain

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Barb Nangle

How and Why Courage Is Contagious

When I was younger, I believed courage meant not being afraid. I didn’t understand how people could have no fear. How did they get rid of…

3 min readApr 8, 2024

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How and Why Courage Is Contagious

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Barb Nangle

How 12-Step Recovery Taught Me to Let Go and Become Accepting

One of the most important things that 12-step recovery taught me was acceptance: how to accept things I previously considered unacceptable.

5 min readApr 6, 2024

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How 12-Step Recovery Taught Me to Let Go and Become Accepting

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Barb Nangle

How to Transform Envy into Motivation for a Fulfilling Life

What’s interesting to me is that when presented with the same set of circumstances, some people will feel envious whereas others will feel…

5 min readMar 25, 2024

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How to Transform Envy into Motivation for a Fulfilling Life

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Barb Nangle

How and Why to Allow Natural Consequences to Unfold to Break the Cycle of Enabling

So many of us try to step in and prevent or buffer those we love from experiencing the negative effects of their negative behaviors. If you…

5 min readMar 22, 2024

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How and Why to Allow Natural Consequences to Unfold to Break the Cycle of Enabling

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Unlocking Freedom: Reclaiming Your Energy from the Cycle of Controlling Help

If you’ve been giving advice to somebody over and over and over again and they never take it, this essay is for you. We do this in an…

4 min readMar 5, 2024

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Unlocking Freedom: Reclaiming Your Energy from the Cycle of Controlling Help

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Barb Nangle

Barb Nangle

I’m a boundaries coach who works with women who focus on what others think and neglect themselves. I've coached hundreds using my exclusive BUILD framework.

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