Blog — Antesa Jensen

"You're emotionally weak."

When a Kurdish tour guide from Istanbul tells you you’re emotionally weak, there’s only one thing to do about it: allow your life to be totally transformed.

Antesa JensenJanuary 14, 2021emotional intelligence, emotional resilience, emotional strength, liberation

Are you unknowingly attached to staying stuck?

Why is it that we say we want to change, set goals, new year's resolutions, and read books about creating healthy habits but then don't follow through over the long term?

Antesa JensenDecember 11, 2020vision, vision board, intention-setting, feeling stuck, what do you want?

How to heal your mother wound.

My mom and I had a rough go of it for the first 33 years of my life. We saw eye to eye on very little and generally didn’t understand one another. Read on to learn how we healed our relationship.

Antesa JensenNovember 10, 2020mother wound, healing, relationship, family dysfunction, what is the mother wound

The inherent weakness of the archetype of power.

The mother of all projections is the one where you, as a powerful person, experience that everyone on the planet is here to step into their power just like you did.

Antesa JensenSeptember 29, 2020personal power, projection, judgment, integral resonance, harmony

Learn to read people; not books.

I have a lot of clients and people in my network asking me to suggest books they can read to learn how to do this transformation-liberation-self-realization thing. Here’s a hint about what to do instead.

Antesa JensenSeptember 21, 2020intuition, emotional intelligence, read people, intuitive, book smart

How to figure out what you want.

We think we know what we want, but we may actually have no idea. How do you start the journey to uncover what you truly desire, and what is yours for the taking?

Antesa JensenAugust 24, 2020

How to be happy.

Do you find yourself preoccupied with the pursuit of happiness, and continue to come up dry? Consider this tip to start feeling happier, immediately.

Antesa JensenAugust 18, 2020happiness, the pursuit of happiness, emotional intelligence, self-expression

Addicted to purging: how to heal.

Body image governs us in ways we don’t always realize. Read my own personal story of recovery from decades of purging food in order to compensate for a lifetime of emotional constipation.

Antesa JensenAugust 10, 2020purging, bulimia, embodied resilience, recovery, self-expression

For some, growth happens when you're willing to get comfortable.

Growth happens outside your comfort zone. But what happens when your comfort zone is shrouded in discomfort?

Antesa JensenAugust 5, 2020growth, self-care, healthy relationships, love

To love me well, set me free.

My mom, more than anyone on the planet, has always known that my success relied heavily on my freedom. If she wanted to stay connected to me, she had to let me go, over and over and over.

Antesa JensenJuly 1, 2020freedom, sovereignty, mother wound, inner child, motherhood

How we perpetuate oppression through self-suppression.

If we've made something about ourselves wrong, either knowingly or unknowingly, and shut it down, we definitely are going to find that same thing about others wrong and try to shut it down, too.

You are not your thoughts.

There was this whole interlude of my life where I trauma bonded with the people around me about my belief systems around abandonment and betrayal and inadequacy and not enoughness and too muchness, and otherwise general codependent behavior.

Antesa JensenJune 10, 2020mindset coaching, belief systems, limiting beliefs, victim consciousness

It's time to heal our addiction to punishment and suffering.

We must replace the belief that those who aren't perfect deserve to be punished immediately with something more constructive. We've got to stop blaming people for not being good enough.

Shadow work IS "love and light."

We think shadow is the opposite of light, but it's not. Without light there is no shadow.

Antesa JensenMay 27, 2020shadow work, love and light, integrity, healing

How to use cognitive dissonance for liberation.

What if I told you there was a way to be discerning but non-judgmental? What if I told you there was a way to be active without being activated?

May this time be the beginning of the great realization.

The veil has gotten thinner. The world feels a bit brighter and more alive. We're all a little more open and available. I'm not an advocate for glossing over what's available here in this grand pause; this silence; this stillness.

The secret to exponential growth.

Many claim to hold the secret to growth. It usually involves learning a hundred new skills. But I’m here to tell you that my biggest secret to exponential growth has involved something completely different.

Antesa JensenApril 15, 2020quantum leap, exponential growth, growth spurt, growth hack, humility

There is no "new normal."

There is no new normal, just like there was no old normal. Because "normal" is a construct of the mind, and a delusion. There is no such thing.

Antesa JensenApril 9, 2020new normal, transformation, coping with change, stress management

All of us are dying.

Some of us have years left, others only moments. None of us know and we never have and we can’t know with any more certainty now than we ever could before.

Antesa JensenMarch 27, 2020death, mortality, transformation, fear of dying, spiritual awakening