Carla's Cocktail Confessional

Healing with humour is a revolution! It's about transforming the way we look at our emotional health and well-being.

Its about navigating ALL the FEELINGs - the good, "the bad" and the fugly (those are the ones that make you go WTF - where did that come from?).

A client recently told me that mental health is "heavy" and a serious issue.   Yup! And that's part of the problem. 

Anybody else a chronic over thinker? Stress and anxiety are mostly stories we make up in our head - and...

When I was training to become a Success Principles trainer one of the exercises was to get feedback on how we were limiting ourselves. A dear friend said, “Carla, I see you limiting yourself by using humour to deflect your pain.”

Ouch. 

I thought I was using my humour to make people laugh and feel better. Hell, I was doing it to make ME feel better. The problem was, I didn’t feel better. And he wasn’t wrong.

Back then I used a lot of self-deprecating humour that...