Since we all spend so much time here, it would be so nice to celebrate people on their birthdays!! If you want to join in the fun and have people send you some love on your birthday here's what you need to do: 🎂 Comment with your birth date 🎂 Suggest how you'd love to be celebrated - a GIF dance party, people comment with their favourite version of the happy birthday song, the birthday person posts a video of themselves blowing out candles... open to ideas!! What do you think? When's your birthday? @Sebastian Holle @Goose Dunlavey @Anne Puybasset @Jeffrey Buoncristiano @Anğéla Sommer @Jade Jemma @Cheryl Pearl @Sally How @Sarah Hankins @Deahna Taylor @Tamzid Himel @Mustafa Rasool @Alessandro Arnò @Anthony Mazzola @Navreet Pabla @Sean Daly @Wendy Wiseman

I have smashed into the comments the last few days and my prize is a giant eggplant. Or aubergine as we correctly call it in the UK. 😋👀 Woo hoo!! Who else is in the purple patch with me? 🍆🍆🍆🍆 My aim is top ten on the leaderboard by the end of the week...I reckon it's doable. 🧐

First of all it's my birthday. I've had a lovely day so far and I've had loads of pressies and cards and kisses and hugs, which were pretty lacking in my life until I met my wonderful husband John. For years, I had no idea how to cope with my emotions until I learned this framework, which I'm sharing with you today. It's called PUSH, which is a brilliant way to raise your awareness of how you're handling your emotions. When we push feelings down, there's a cost to storing emotions instead of processing and releasing them. Let me help you understand what happens when we suppress our feelings. The Four Stages of Emotional Suppression P - Pretend & Pack Away 📦 Your nervous system stays on high alert. The unprocessed charge doesn't disappear—it waits. When we tell ourselves "I'm fine" while our body knows otherwise, we create internal conflict that keeps our system activated. U - Unname & Unshare 🤐 The brain can't file what it can't name. Without words or witness, your brain can't label the stress response, leaving it cycling in your system. This unnamed experience becomes harder to process and integrate. S - Store & Somatize 🏠 Chronic stress patterns (sleep disruption, inflammation, blood pressure changes), decision fatigue, and reactivity emerge. Your body becomes the storage unit for unprocessed emotions, manifesting as physical symptoms and tension. H - Harden & Hijack 🚗 Emotions start to hijack choices—relationships strain, boundaries blur, burnout rises, and your sense of self-confidence erodes. The very feelings we tried to avoid begin driving our decisions unconsciously. I am so grateful for Elyce Gordon, who developed this framework. She is a brilliant woman, and if you're on Instagram, she's on there as @thefeelingsexpert So how do you break the Cycle? Recognition is the first step. When we can identify where we are in this cycle, we can begin to interrupt the pattern and choose a different response. This awareness creates space for healing and growth.

I OFTEN refer to one of my fav talks of all time. ...well this is it. watch it, and youll understand why. thoughts?

I teach A LOT of people about growing online. Most people don't listen. Its time to reward the people that do. So Im starting a new program for all my fav people in Goosify. It will be limited to 20 people. There are 4 spaces available. It is called GOOSE Team 6 (thx @Yahya Kazi) It is completely free and based entirely on: 1. Ur Leaderboard Position in Goosify 2. How much value u have given others here 3. How much uve have listened / grown your community It will include a monthly call where i will work closely with you from now on. Non active members will be removed and replaced with an active member. I would like to invite to join: @Michelle McCartney @Mogene Christensen @Arda Halibryam @Jen Ritchie @Brennan Thompson @Angela Day @Louis Pendley @Dr. Maria Nagy @Jessica Clish @Becky Teresa @Amanda Read @Joshua Gatonyi @Quincy Patti @Samanda Rasmussen And they will help recommend the 4 people that we have space for. So, suck up to them.