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Your beauty inside

I finished reading your book Nicole, THE BEAUTY LOAD. I’m older and I decided to change some of my view points about my looks and body so they were more in alignment with my journey…

Bad Pfzier Jab Experience

I had a horrible experience with the Pfizer jab which I am still doing rehabilitation on.  The first jab caused tightness in the chest and I had a little trouble breathing for 10 days. However,…

My interview with Girl Talk HQ Magazine

I talk about how I used loss and severe change to create the life I love at Girl Talk HQ Magazine. “Australian former film journalist and now personal development leader Monique Hohnberg is no stranger…

the only juice and smoothie you need

The only juice and smoothie you need

I changed my eating from lazy healthy to super healthy in early January. I loaded up on fresh fruit and vegetables, and cut out all processed food. I looked up juices and wow there are…

My love story by Monique Hohnberg

My love story

I’d trapped myself in survival thinking, soulness gone, parched, bereft on the rock torn shores of my previous unwanted adventures. Life had taken me low, against my will.

Say Yes To No by Monique Hohnberg

Say Yes to No

When you control what happens day to day the long term takes care of itself. The alternative is feeling out of control. When you feel out of control you never get to the gym or…

Bushfires in my country. I felt so desperate, so I did this

I watched TV every night and cried. Then I would berate myself for being so emotional. Then something happened. I snapped, got so angry. Unlike anything I had experienced before.

Chris Brock As a Delivery Driver

Do The Thing Have The Power

Chris Brock went from being a Magazine Editor in New York to burning out, smashing computers for a living, working as a carer with disabled people, and finally driving a van delivering groceries across the…

Change Your Story To Change Your Life Three

Have your close friends been making remarks about the smallest thing you are supposedly doing wrong? Have your friends encouraged you lately and reminded you of your successes or are they silent? Do your friends…

Monique at The Shard looking over London Rise Regardless

Back Home Now I’m Cocooning And Ascending

Every morning I wake up I see horizontal slices of light come through a blind and I don’t know where I am. It’s a strange discombobulating experience. Even when sighting a piece of furniture I’m…

Monique Hohnberg in London Photography by Chris Brock

My Interview With Chris Brock

Hello Everyone, Sorry I’ve been a bit absent lately. I got very snowed under preparing  my “Ignite Your Life and Rise Regardless” course which I just taught in Greece and then I went on a…

What's Your Super Power by Monique Hohnberg Rise Regardless Personal Development

What’s your super power?

It’s good to be reminded of your special powers. We all have special talents that we often overlook in ourselves. Funnily enough, I’m sure your friends could tell you easily what they are. It’s time…

11 Top Distorted Thinking Habits That Sabotage You

Decades ago, I read about distorted thinking in David Burns’ book – The Feeling Good Handbook. It changed my life. I wrote the list of habits down in a little notepad, kept it in my…

Self Trust, Intuition, Decision Making, Strength, and You. Forbes Rodeo 2018 by Monique Hohnberg

How To Hear Your Intuition And Act On It.

I had received a phone call from my mother. She told me she had very bad news. She had to have a breast removed and then chemo. She needed to be operated on straightaway, and…

Update On Bessie A Rough Week

It was a rough week. Mum started chemo. I searched for Bessie out on the farm (which we used to own but sold a while ago now) and had no luck. And I saw what…

Monique Hohnberg in the Landcruiser going looking for Bessie the dog in Forbes, NSW, Australia

Bessie Has Gone Missing

  Many of you may remember Bessie. She was my Dad’s dog. And when he passed, she became my dog. I had to put on her on a friend’s farm while I sorted my life…

Leaving Sydney

My last goodbye swim in the cliff pool near my house did not go down like I wanted it to. I was angry and upset. A few days prior, I had sent all of my…

Commit To Yourself by Monique Hohnberg honberg RiseRegardless Rise Up

Commit to Yourself

One of the biggest things I’ve been doing is to deeply commit to my intentional habits over and over again. It goes something like this, Alarm goes off at 6.45am. I wake up into consciousness,…

Permission To Leap Interview with Bri Seeley and Monique Hohnberg RiseRegardless

Give Yourself Permission to Leap

In this interview we cover how to become a bigger person that is way outside your comfort zone. Hi Bri, 1.What was the biggest change you made? What made it happen? What held you back?…

Part Two Change your story to change your life by Monique Hohnberg RiseRegardless

Change Your Story To Change Your Life Two

If I had listened to the story my friends and family thought about me I would not have become a Encouragement Leader or launched my website. I would not have changed my life. I had…

Change Your Story To Change Your Life One

I was talking to a lady called Samantha at a Sunday dinner and she said to me, ‘I don’t know why I’m so negative. I talk to people. They ask me about my day and…

The Mind Believes What You Tell It. Making neuroscience and The Reticular Activating System (RAS) Work For You by Monique Hohnberg RiseRegardless

The Mind Believes What You Tell It

Kate was sitting with a friend looking through a fashion magazine, when she came across a beautiful sapphire ring and exclaimed, “I love this ring.” Her friend, Sophie said, “No you don’t. You only like…

The One Bad Idea Running Your Day by Monique Hohnberg RiseRegardless Rise Regardless Personal Development and Lifestyle

The One Bad Idea Running Your Day

What’s the one underlying bad idea running your day? I certainly had one. It runs automatically in the background. It’s always there. That’s why you don’t see it until it’s pointed out to you. It…

13 Powerful Things to know to Kickstart Change

13 Powerful Things to Know to Kickstart Change

There is a knack for doing change. Some do it well. Others, not so much. We all have something we’d like to change. Something that would take life to the next level. These 13 messages…

Gypsy Bazaar Photography by Monique Hohnberg Roadtrip Quest We all slip. Fall Down. Its what we do next that counts Rise Regardless

We all slip. Fall down. It’s what we do next that counts

My Feeling Expedition Everything geared up inside me. Time to go. Right now. That feeling was fierce. I packed in a hurry. The roads going up north from Sydney along the East Coast of Australia…

Believing in You, Identity, Stuckness and Creativity

My interview with the lovely Carrie of Artist Strong has just come out. In it we look at forming a new identity and how to do it. To do this you need trust yourself and…

Small Powerful Habits for Weight Management Part Three

Here we talk about some more small but powerful habits for eating well to live better, weight loss and maintenance. These habits are designed, so once implemented they last a lifetime. We all have eating…

Small Powerful Habits for Lasting Weight Management with Monique Hohnberg RiseRegardless Rise Regardless

Small Powerful Habits for Weight Management Part Two

Let’s look at some more small powerful habits to introduce for lasting weight management in part two of this series. Habits work with setting the neuroplasticity of the brain, as it loves patterns.  We want…

Small Powerful Habits for Lasting Weight Management.

Small Powerful Habits for Lasting Weight Management

This is Part One of my series of eating habits that will help with keeping you at the weight you want, and losing some kilos or pounds if need be. Many people have extra weight…

Review of Danielle LaPorte Sydney Talk with The Wake Up Project by Monique Hohnberg

Review of Danielle LaPorte Sydney Talk

I went to superstar Danielle LaPorte’s talk the other night in Sydney to hear some kick-ass spirituality and personal development. So, I thought I’d review the talk and share the 3 big takeaways. Over 4…

Kangaroo at the Farmhouse

Packing up the Farmhouse

I’m surrounded by boxes. As I look out over the laptop I can see work done and more work to do. That’s about the sum of it. It’s too hot to do anything now. It’s…

Top 12 Traps of Being Spiritually Developed by Monique Hohnberg Rise Regardless

The Top 12 Traps of Being Spiritually Developed. Who me?

It’s time to lighten up and have some fun! Let’s talk about the elephant in the room – the traps (eek) of personal development or spiritual life. I’m guilty of a few of these in…

Monique Hohnberg Snorkelling How to Rise Regardless No Matter What

How to Rise Regardless No Matter What

I had decided to launch a website in November 2012, but soon after, in 2013, I relapsed again. I had to stop all my projects. I was very ill – in bed everyday. After 6…

This is a photo of a graffiti art of a person lifting their head to the sky. It is related to the post about the Top 8 habits that create Bad Self Esteem.

8 Top Habits that Create a Bad Relationship to Self (aka Self Esteem)

Working on my perfectionism created many beautiful ripple effects in many other areas of my life too. I’m happier overall, able to express more gratitude, more in love with my work, which means I’m much…

How to improve friendships using a step by step process of abundance.

How I Changed my Friendships with this Radical Move

It was time to do things differently …. It was that time of year again. My birthday was coming up. And it was bringing up old feelings of loneliness and lack. For months I had…

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