How to Explore Your Interests and Find a Career Path That Fits

Last week, we talked about finding interests and possibilities during a life transition. But what happens once something catches your attention?

Maybe you have an interest you cannot stop thinking about. But then comes the big question: Is this just a passing fancy? A hobby? A side gig? A new career direction? Could it even be part of my purpose?

It is easy to put a lot of pressure on that interest. Here is the good news: you don’t need to decide yet. You are allowed to be curious before you commit.

An interest does not need to immediately become productive, profitable, or permanent to be worthwhile. Exploring it is how we learn whether it offers energy, meaning, connection, skill-building, flexibility, or simply delight.

Try an Interest Experiment

Think of this as gathering clues, not making a lifelong decision. 

  1. Create a “what matters list” 

Before you decide whether a particular interest is worth pursuing, get clear about what helps you thrive.

What matters to you in the way you spend your time, whether that is in work, a hobby, a volunteer role, or a possible side gig?

You are not trying to create a perfect checklist. You’re simply noticing the environments, rhythms, and values that help you feel more like yourself. 

Your list might include:

  • The amount of flexibility or structure you want
  • The amount of interaction: Working alone, with others, or a blend of both
  • The location you prefer: Remote, in-person, or hybrid setting
  • The financial aspect: whether income is required, optional, or not a factor
  • The opportunities for creativity, movement, problem-solving or service
  • The learning curve and your willingness to pursue education or training
  • The connection to your values, strengths, or a cause that matters to you
  • The time, energy, and financial investment you are able to make right now
  1. Name your interests & pick one to explore

Look back at your notes from the Best Life Exercise, last week’s interest questions, and any career exploration tools you have completed. If you haven’t completed these earlier reflection activities, you can read about them in last week’s post.

What ideas, activities, topics, or roles keep catching your attention? 

Choose one interest that you are curious enough to explore. 

Not the one you think you should choose. Not necessarily the one that seems most practical. Just the one that makes you think, “I wonder what that would be like?”

  1. Gather real-life information 

A quick online search can be helpful, but real-life information is often where things begin to feel clearer. Google can tell you what a job title means, but a real person can tell you what their Tuesday afternoon is actually like. 

Talk with someone who works in the field, volunteers with an organization, or participates in a community you are curious about. You might also attend a meetup, take a class, volunteer once, or join an event.

Not sure whom to ask? Tell friends and family what you are exploring and ask whether they know someone connected to it. You can also search your alumni network, LinkedIn, or local, state, and national organizations related to the field or cause.

If you have a chance to talk with someone, you might ask:

  • What does a typical day or week look like for you?
  • What do you enjoy most about this work, cause, or community?
  • What is more challenging or different than people might expect?
  • How did you get involved?
  • What strengths or qualities are especially helpful?
  • If you were just starting out, what small step would you recommend?
  1. Take time to reflect

After you gather information or try something new, pull out your “What Matters” list and look for matches and mismatches.

Did this role, activity, organization, or community offer some of the conditions that help you thrive? What felt aligned with your values, strengths, needs, and current season of life? What felt out of alignment?

Then decide on your next small step. If you noticed that this interest seems to fit what matters to you, you may want to continue exploring. Perhaps that means another conversation, a class, a volunteer opportunity, or a slightly bigger experiment. 

If it feels like a poor fit, you can set it aside for now and turn your curiosity toward a different interest.

What If Exploration Feels Discouraging?

Exploration does not always feel exciting. You may feel disappointed when an interest, role, activity, or community does not turn out to be what you hoped. It can be hard to discover that something you imagined might be a good fit does not align with your values, needs, energy, or life right now. Sometimes exploration leaves you with more questions instead of clear answers.

If that happens, try to meet yourself with self-compassion. First, notice the disappointment without judging yourself for having it: “This is hard. I was hoping this would feel like a better fit.”

Then remind yourself that you are not alone. Everyone encounters dead ends, mismatches, and uncertainty while figuring out what comes next. This is part of being human, not proof that you are doing it wrong.

Finally, offer yourself some kindness. You might speak to yourself as you would a friend: “It makes sense that I feel disappointed. I am proud of myself for being curious and taking a step. I do not have to have all the answers today.”

Instead of labeling the experience a failure, consider what it taught you. A mismatch can still be meaningful information. It helps you refine your “What Matters” list, choose a more fitting next experiment, and move a little closer to something that feels right for you.

For more ideas about practicing self-compassion when your inner critic gets loud, you can read my earlier post, How to Stop Beating Yourself Up.

Exploration may leave you with more questions instead of clear answers, but each experience can still offer a useful clue about what to explore next.

Join the Conversation

What is one interest you would like to explore more deeply right now?

Or, if you have explored an interest that did not turn out the way you expected, what did it teach you?

Share in the comments. I would love to hear what you are exploring, and your experience may encourage another reader who is figuring out what to try next

Need Support?

If you’d like personalized support while navigating a life transition, email me at dianna@collierclan.net for a free consultation. 

You Don’t Need a Perfect Plan to Explore What’s Next

Do you find yourself wanting a change but feeling unsure what you would move toward?

In my coaching practice, I meet people in this uncertain space all the time.

Some are contemplating a major career or industry change. Some are curious about consulting, self-employment, or building a small business.

Others are nearing retirement and wondering how paid work, volunteering, learning, creative pursuits, and more spaciousness might fit into their next chapter.

The details differ, but the question is often the same: What else might be possible for me?

I know that place well. 

My Path Back to Possibility

When I left my job as a school psychologist, I did not have a clear vision for what came next. I had experienced burnout and a stress response that was affecting my ability to get pregnant. Rather than sign my contract for another year, I chose to step away.

My plan was loose: slow down, try to get pregnant, and, if that happened, try being a stay-at-home mom for a while as I figured out what I wanted to do with my life.

Somewhere along the way, I assumed I would have an epiphany. I thought that once I had enough distance from work, the answer would simply appear.

It did not.

I look back at that burned-out 28-year-old version of myself with so much tenderness. I was trying to recover, become a mother, and imagine an entirely new future all at once. Caring for young children brought many meaningful moments, but it did not naturally create much time, quiet, or spaciousness for self-discovery.

Over time, I learned that clarity often does not arrive on its own. Many of us need to intentionally create conditions that help us dream, reflect, and open ourselves to new possibilities.

For me, one of those turning points came years later, when I enrolled in a positive psychology certificate program. During an immersion experience away from my family, including my then-elementary-school-aged daughters, I had the rare opportunity to slow down and engage in deep self-reflection. 

At first, it felt scary. I found myself moved to tears more than once. Yet that experience helped me begin noticing what mattered to me, what energized me, and what kinds of work I wanted to grow toward.

Looking back, I did not need a fully formed plan. I needed permission to become curious again.

Why Dreaming Can Feel Surprisingly Hard

If you are struggling to picture a new future, it does not mean you lack ambition, creativity, or potential. Often, we are using so much energy to cope with the present that it is hard to imagine anything beyond it.

Burnout, guilt about leaving meaningful work, fear about the future, and the comfort of what is familiar can all narrow our view. So can a long-held professional identity or the pressure to choose the “right” next step.

The good news: you do not have to identify one perfect answer. You can begin by treating your ideas as possibilities to explore.

Ways to Invite in Possibilities

The following practices are simply invitations to get curious. You can respond in a journal or record yourself answering aloud. 

  1. Try the Best Possible Self Exercise

This practice is adapted from psychologist Laura King’s Best Possible Self exercise. You can find the original practice and fuller directions here.

Set aside 15 minutes to imagine your life in the future, after everything has gone as well as it possibly could. Let yourself picture a meaningful life, including work or contribution, relationships, wellbeing, learning, and how you spend your days.

Write continuously about this future, or record yourself speaking freely. For now, set aside practical barriers and focus on what you hope could unfold.

Repeat the exercise on several different days. Then read or listen back for themes: What values, interests, strengths, or ways of living seem to matter most? 

  1. Explore Your Interests

Give yourself permission to answer without judging whether an interest is practical, marketable, or worthy of becoming a job.

  • What was your favorite job, paid or unpaid? What did you enjoy about it?
  • What did you enjoy doing as a child?
  • What topics, problems, or communities pull your attention?
  • What do you enjoy learning about?
  • What would your ideal day at work look like?

Notice what repeats. You may discover that you are drawn to particular types of problems, environments, people, or ways of spending your time. You do not need to turn every answer into a career plan. Let the patterns be information.

  1. Use a Career-Exploration Tool for Ideas

Career-exploration tools can highlight interests, skills, and occupations you may not have considered. They cannot tell you the one right path, but they can offer ideas to explore.

  • ONET Interest Profiler: A free assessment that helps you identify work-related interests and explore occupations connected to them.
  • Career Dreamer: Google’s AI-powered career-exploration tool can help you reflect on your transferable skills and interests, then generate possible career directions. Use it as a brainstorming partner, and investigate any suggestions that spark curiosity.

You are bigger than any one job, role, identity, or imagined future. Inside you are interests, strengths, values, and skills that may not have had room to speak yet.

Start small. Let yourself imagine. Notice what brings a flicker of energy, interest, or relief. Those are not final answers, but they may be meaningful clues.

This Week’s Challenge

Choose one way to make space for possibility this week:

  • Try the Best Possible Self exercise.
  • Answer one of the interest questions.
  • Use a Career-Exploration Tool.

Then ask yourself:

What possibility am I curious enough to explore, even if I am not ready to decide anything yet?

I’d love to hear what emerges for you. Share in the comments and join the conversation.

Need Support?

If you’d like personalized support while navigating a life transition, email me at dianna@collierclan.net for a free consultation. 

When Life Takes an Unexpected Turn

I have been thinking about how rarely life moves in a neat, straight line.

We may be taught to expect life to follow a predictable sequence: choose a path, build a career, find a partner, start a family, settle into our roles, retire, and eventually arrive at some imagined finish line. 

But that is rarely how life works. We face disruptions and move through multiple transitions across our lives.

We build relationships and families, experience endings, and sometimes begin again. We change jobs, step away from work, return after time away, or outgrow roles we once worked hard to earn.

We raise children, send them into the world, and sometimes welcome them back home. Later, we may find ourselves caring for aging parents. Along the way, we encounter detours, disappointments, new desires, and unexpected openings.

Some transitions are ones we choose. Others arrive at our doorstep uninvited.

Regardless of how the change arrived, we can choose to meet it with curiosity, self-compassion, and a small step toward what matters.

My Life in Transition

I recently returned from our annual family summer trip to Rhode Island, where we enjoyed temperate weather, ocean views, and the kind of breeze that makes you briefly consider moving.

Then we came home and dove straight into some of Austin’s hottest temperatures of the year, including several 107-degree days, just in time to move my younger daughter back to college. 

The heat was intense, but the truly terrifying mishap of the move was discovering a forgotten frozen bean-and-cheese burrito at the bottom of a grocery bag that had been sitting in my car for several days after the move.

Meanwhile, my older daughter, who moved home after graduating this spring, just started a remote internship with a startup. It is her first experience in corporate America. She’ll be living at home during the internship, which means our household is shifting in more ways than one.

So, our nest is not empty anymore…but it is definitely not the same kind of full.

Our home has a new rhythm. There is more activity around the kitchen, a few more people navigating schedules and shared spaces, and the quiet awareness that we are all finding our way in a new season.

I feel proud of both of my daughters. I also feel a little wistful, a little curious, and not entirely sure what this changing chapter will look like for our family or for me.

That is one thing I know about transitions: even the good ones can bring a complicated mix of emotions. We can be happy about what is beginning and still miss what has changed. We can feel grateful and unsettled at the very same time.

A New Series: Navigating Life Transitions

Over the next several issues of The Positive Pull, I’ll be exploring life transitions and how we navigate them with more self-compassion, courage, curiosity, and connection to what matters.

I’ll give you a peek into some of my own messy transitions, including some I am still very much in the middle of. 

I’ll also explore themes that come up often in my coaching work: navigating career pivots, redefining identity, making room for uncertainty, grieving and honoring what has ended, and finding purpose in a new season of life.

A Pause for This Week

For this week, take a moment to finish these three sentences:

  • I am moving away from…
  • I am moving toward…
  • What I need most in this in-between is…

And I would truly love to hear from you: What transition or major life change are you navigating right now?

Leave me a comment and share a sentence or two. Your answers will help shape this series.

The hardest part of change is often the in-between. It can be scary to leave the familiar behind when the path is unclear. Wherever you are in your changing season, you do not need to have the whole route mapped out to take one kind, curious next step.

Need Support?

If you’d like personalized support while navigating a life transition, email me at dianna@collierclan.net for a free consultation. 

How to Welcome More Awe Into Your Life

When was the last time you felt truly awestruck, when something made you pause and whisper a quiet “wow”?


Did time feel like it slowed down, just a little?

Awe is an emotion we feel when we encounter something vast, beautiful, or beyond our ordinary understanding, something that invites us to step out of our usual perspective and see the world with a sense of wonder and openness. 

It can happen in “big” moments, like standing at the edge of the ocean or looking up at a star-filled sky, and in quieter moments, like hearing a child’s unexpected wisdom or being moved by a piece of music.

As researchers study awe more closely, they’re finding that it does much more than create a pleasant moment; it can genuinely support our wellbeing in everyday life.

How Awe Benefits Your Wellbeing

  • It can ease stress and quiet repetitive worry which boosts mood.
  • It can change how we experience time, making it feel more expansive and less rushed.
  • It can strengthen feelings of connection to other people, to nature, and to something larger than ourselves.
  • It can foster humility and curiosity, making us more open to learning, growing, and seeing new possibilities.
  • It is linked with acting more generously and placing less focus on material possessions.

Different Paths to Awe

There are many ways this emotion can show up in our lives. Some people feel it most easily in nature, others through spiritual experiences, and others when they witness acts of kindness or courage. It can be triggered by “big ideas,” like scientific discoveries or excellent performances in art, music or sports.

You might notice that certain paths to awe feel especially powerful for you, and that they can be a steady source of comfort and perspective, especially during times of change.

A Short Positivity Break to Experience Awe

One of the places I most often feel awe is in nature, and that inspired me to create a guided visualization set in a natural landscape. My hope is that it will help you use your imagination to create your own awe-inspiring moment, even if you are listening from an ordinary, everyday setting.

You can watch (or simply listen to) the awe positivity break here:

Tap Into Awe: Short Guided Visualization for Calm & Wonder

Closing Out Our Positivity Break Series

This awe practice marks the end of our recent positivity break series based on the 10 positive emotions identified by Barbara Fredrickson. Over these past weeks, we’ve explored how positive emotions like joy, gratitude, and hope can support wellbeing in everyday life, and awe feels like a fitting place to pause. It’s a reminder that even in seasons of uncertainty or transition, moments of wonder are still available to us.

If you missed any of the previous positivity breaks, you’re warmly invited to visit my YouTube channel and watch the ones that call to you: Dianna Collier Coaching.

I’ll be stepping away from the newsletter briefly while I travel to one of my favorite awe-inspiring destinations: Rhode Island. It’s a place where I reconnect with nature,visit with family and experience “wow” moments while exploring the rocky coast and ocean views.

During this pause, I invite you to notice where awe might already be present in your own daily life, and how you might make a little more space for it.

This Week’s Challenge

I’d love to hear from you. Please share:

  • A recent moment when you felt awe, and what you noticed around you.
  • One small way you’d like to make more space for awe in your life (a walk at sunset, pausing to notice trees on your commute, listening more deeply to a favorite song, etc.).

Leave a comment and join the conversation! 

Need Support?

If you’d like personalized support tapping into positive emotions while navigating a life transition, email me at dianna@collierclan.net for a free consultation. I have spots available at the end of August & September.

From Blah to Inspired: A Positivity Break to Spark Motivation

When was the last time you felt inspired?

Not just “in a good mood,” but genuinely lit up — more creative, more alive, more willing to take a step forward. That’s the experience I want to help you reconnect with this week.

What Is Inspiration?

Inspiration is that uplifted, energized feeling that comes from something or someone that moves you. It often shows up as a sense of “I want to do something with this,” a pull to create, to grow, or to take brave action in your life.

Why Inspiration Matters

Inspiration isn’t just a nice feeling; it’s part of a bigger story about how positive emotions help us grow. Research by Barbara Fredrickson and others shows that positive emotions (including inspiration) tend to broaden our thinking and, over time, help us build resources like creativity, resilience, and stronger social connections.

In everyday life, that broaden-and-build effect can look like:

  • Fresh ideas and creative sparks.
  • More motivation to try something new or take the next step.
  • A clearer sense of what matters to you and where you want to go
  • A little more energy and hopefulness about what’s possible.

So when you feel inspired, it’s not “just a moment.” You’re also expanding your mindset and planting seeds for future growth.

This Week’s Positivity Break

This week’s Positivity Break video helps you generate inspiration intentionally, instead of waiting for it to randomly show up. 

In the video, you’ll be guided through a short journaling practice, with prompts designed to help you notice what truly moves you and calls you forward.

You can watch the video here:

Inspiration Starts Here | A Positivity Break to Spark Motivation

Share What Inspires You

I’d love to hear what lights you up.


Tell me about a moment, a person, a piece of art, or a song that inspires you. 

Share in the comments. Your story might spark a little inspiration for someone else.

Need Support?

If you’d like help reconnecting with inspiration while navigating a life transition, email me at dianna@collierclan.net for a free consultation. 

How Healthy Pride Builds Confidence and Momentum

Pride gets a bad reputation.

For many people, it’s tangled up with arrogance, ego, or a sense of superiority. But that version of pride isn’t what we’re aiming for here.

In positive psychology, pride is something much more grounded and useful. It’s a sense of self-approval that comes from recognizing your efforts, growth, and progress. 

Healthy pride stays open. It allows you to say, “I see what I’ve done,” while still leaving room to learn and grow.

And when you let yourself feel it, pride doesn’t hold you back. It helps you keep going.

The Missing Piece for Many High Achievers

Many of my clients struggle to feel this kind of pride.

They’re working toward meaningful, often ambitious goals, yet rarely pause to acknowledge what they’ve already done. 

Their focus stays on what’s next, what’s missing, or what could be better. Over time, that can quietly drain motivation instead of sustaining it.

But pride, when we allow ourselves to feel it, can become a powerful source of energy.

A Small Shift That Changed My Day

I saw this in my own life just last week.

I started the day in a grumpy mood. I didn’t feel motivated or inspired. But instead of waiting to feel better, I began moving through a few actions I had already prioritized.

I walked the dog before the Texas heat set in, got in a weight training session after missing a few workouts, and sat down to work on my newsletter.

While researching and writing, something shifted. I became absorbed in what I was doing, and my energy started to rise.

Then I noticed something else. I felt proud. I was showing up and following through, even when I didn’t feel like it. Recognizing that changed the trajectory of my day.

Pride That Isn’t Dependent on Today

That’s the kind of pride that supports growth.

And importantly, it doesn’t have to depend on how productive or successful today happens to be.

Some days will have more energy or visible progress than others. That’s part of being human. If pride only comes from what you accomplish in a single day, it will always feel inconsistent.

What if you could access a sense of pride based on a broader view of who you are and how you’ve grown?

This Week’s Positivity Break

That’s what this week’s Positivity Break is designed to help you do.

In just a few minutes, you’ll be guided through a simple reflection to help you reconnect with a more supportive and encouraging view of yourself.

You can watch it here:
https://youtu.be/LaQAzdGl9mk

As you go through it, notice what it feels like to receive your own recognition.

This Week’s Challenge

I’d love to hear from you.

What is something—big or small—that you feel proud of right now?

Share in the comments and join the conversation! 

Need Support?

If you’d like personalized support tapping into positive emotions while navigating a life transition, email me at dianna@collierclan.net for a free consultation. 

What Curious People Know That the Rest of Us Don’t

Hi Friends,

What if the secret to a better day is already inside you?

It sounds almost too simple, right? But one of the most powerful tools we have for living a fuller, more engaged life isn’t a new app, a productivity hack, or a perfectly planned morning routine.

It’s interest— that bright, alive feeling when something captures your attention and makes you want to lean in a little closer.


So, what exactly is interest?

According to positive psychologist Barbara Fredrickson, interest is the feeling that sparks the urge to explore, learn, and absorb new experiences. Think of it as curiosity, fascination, and engagement all wrapped up into one beautiful emotion. 

And just like all ten of the positive emotions identified by Fredrickson, interest has the power to broaden our thinking and build lasting wellbeing.


Why cultivating interest is worth your time

Research on curiosity and interest has shown some pretty compelling benefits:

Better memory and learning 

When curiosity is activated, the brain’s dopamine reward system fires up, priming the hippocampus to absorb information more deeply. Curious brains simply learn better.

Lower anxiety  

Approaching new or uncertain situations with interest rather than apprehension actually dials down the stress response. Interest reframes “What if something goes wrong?” into “I wonder what I’ll discover.”

More happiness and life satisfaction  

Research found that on days when people felt more curious and interested, they reported higher life satisfaction and a greater sense of meaning in life.

Stronger relationships 

Being genuinely curious about the people around us builds real intimacy and connection. Curious people are consistently rated as warmer and more enjoyable to be around.

Greater resilience  

People who approach challenges with interest and a growth mindset tend to bounce back more easily. They become problem-solvers, not avoiders.

The bottom line? Interest is a resource, and the good news is that we can practice it.


Ready to tap into yours?

In this month’s Positivity Break, I’m guiding you through a short journaling exercise designed to help you reconnect with what genuinely interests you, in your learning, your relationships, your strengths, and your everyday life.

👉 [Click here to watch the video] 

It’s short, it’s reflective, and it just might make your week more interesting. 


This Week’s Challenge

I’d love to hear from you.

What are you most curious or interested in right now? 

Leave me a comment and join the conversation! 

Need Support?

If you’d like personalized support tapping into positive emotions while navigating a life transition, email me at dianna@collierclan.net for a free consultation. 

I’m on a podcast: Letting Go of Perfection and Embracing Compassion

I’m just back from a beautiful family trip to Italy, full of connection, perspective, and gelato. I’m returning with some exciting news to share.

While I was traveling, an episode of The Secrets of Being podcast, where I had the honor of being a guest, was released. 

In this conversation with host Dawn Airhart Witte, we explore something so many of us experience but don’t always talk about openly: burnout, and how self-compassion can be a powerful way through it.

I share parts of my own journey from a high-stress career into this work, along with simple, practical ways to meet yourself with more kindness, especially in the moments when you’re feeling overwhelmed, stretched thin, or not “enough.” 

We also talk about what it really means to give ourselves permission to be human, and how small practices like self-compassion breaks can create more resilience and ease in everyday life.

If this resonates with you, I’d love for you to take a listen in whatever way works best for you:

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/E0HLNd3F0XM


Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/4kviqG6


Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/40JJ93uzECuuGPFODWV7Ht?si=juuoy4HLTOC528yUhv9-HQ

After you listen, let me know what stands out for you; leave me a comment and share any reflections, questions, or takeaways.

Need Support?

If you’d like personalized support dealing with burnout in a self-compassionate way, email me at dianna@collierclan.net for a free consultation. 

The Easiest Gratitude Practice You’re Not Using

Gratitude gets talked about a lot and for good reason. 

It’s one of the simplest ways to lift your mood, widen your perspective, and remind your brain that not everything is doom and laundry. 

Even a tiny moment of appreciation can help you feel more grounded and connected to what’s good right now.

This week’s Positivity Break offers a fresh (and kind of fun) twist on gratitude using something you already have with you. It’s quick and might just surprise you with how easily it brings a smile.

Take a minute and try it here:

If you’re in the mood for more ideas (especially on those “not feeling it” days), I’ve got you covered here:
https://diannacollier.com/2025/11/25/gratitude-practices-for-grumpy-people/

One last note: I’ll be taking a short break from the newsletter while I travel with my family and celebrate my older daughter’s college graduation. I’ll be back mid-June—with, I’m sure, a few new moments of gratitude to share.

This Week’s Challenge

I’d love to hear from you.

Tell me about your moment of gratitude or share the photo that inspired it.

Share in the comments of my blog and join the conversation! Let’s spread a little collective gratitude!

Need Support?

If you’d like personalized support tapping into positive emotions while navigating a life transition, email me at dianna@collierclan.net for a free consultation. I have spots open in June.

A simple practice to feel more love this week

Love can sometimes feel like something we have to earn, chase, or wait for, just out of reach, especially on the days when we’re stressed, disconnected, or running on empty.

But what if love isn’t something you have to wait for?

In positive psychology, love is something we can intentionally cultivate, and one powerful way to do that is through a practice called loving-kindness meditation.

This week’s positivity break introduces this simple, well-researched practice that helps you generate feelings of warmth, care, and connection, starting from within and gently expanding outward.

What I love about this practice is that it meets you exactly where you are. Whether you’re feeling open and connected or a little guarded and depleted, loving-kindness meditation helps you access love in a way that feels safe and doable.

And the benefits are more than just a fleeting good feeling. Research shows that loving-kindness meditation can:

  • Enhance empathy and emotional regulation
  • Strengthen feelings of social connection and belonging
  • Reduce self-criticism and support greater self-compassion
  • Lower stress and even improve overall well-being over time

In other words, this isn’t just about feeling good in the moment. It’s about gently rewiring how you relate to yourself and others.

This week’s positivity break is an invitation to pause, soften, and reconnect with that steady, expansive sense of love that’s already within you.

You can watch the full video here: https://youtu.be/TUXEH954YHM

This Week’s Challenge

I’d love to hear from you.

What did you notice when you practiced generating feelings of love? Did anything surprise you?

Share in the comments and join the conversation! Let’s spread a little positivity together!

Need Support?

If you’d like personalized support tapping into positive emotions while navigating a life transition, email me at dianna@collierclan.net for a free consultation.