Misalignment
Going through the motions of a busy life while quietly feeling detached from your foundational purpose.
Cognitive Loops
Repetitive, stressful internal narratives that exhaust your focus and distort daily communication.
Reactive Overwhelm
Living in a state of constant survival, reacting to daily pressures instead of intentionally selecting your path.
Energy Depletion
Feeling standard daily fatigue magnified by external drama, judgment, or absorbing the negative emotions of those around you.
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Resources That Help Turn Change Into Your New Normal
What I appreciate most about Dorice’s online course The resources that support Dorice’s lessons do this for me. They walk me through, step by step. The exercises help me pause, recognize what’s happening in my mind, and intentionally choose the response that supports me now. The resources are designed not to be ‘One and Done’. They’re designed for me to come back to them, again and again, as I’m learning. My thoughts, feelings, and actions are now becoming my new normal and they feel right. They’re also designed for me to come back to them as I have new experiences, so the support me whenever I find something I choose to change.
- Sue Ryan, Leadership Coach
Life-Changing Tools for Everyday Challenges
I love these short videos to share more about this topic. I also love the reminders how to stay in Sage. The tools provided in your lessons are incredibly valuable because they get you to the right side of the brain where your sage powers thrive.
- Dacon, Director of Human Resources
From Oy to Joy Through Gratitude and Growth
From Inner Saboteur to Clarity and Purpose
A Modern Blueprint Rooted in Mental Fitness
Bridging the gap between emotional fatigue and intentional leadership.
Positive Intelligence® Principles: Practical, research-backed cognitive training designed to rewire your brain for optimism and resilience.
The CHOOSE Framework: A dedicated, step-by-step path to master self-leadership: Clarity · Honor · Openness · Oneness · Strategy · Enactment.
Mental Fitness Practices: Daily behavioral tools. Short, simple exercises that reset your nervous system and lower cortisol levels in under two minutes.
Real-World Integration: Fluid application built for busy schedules. Practice these micro-reps during transitions, mid-meeting, or while walking your dog.
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Personal and Professional
Transformation in 4 Pillars
This flagship curriculum is mapped out across four core stages of transformation, designed to build tangible professional skills and deepen personal relationships.
PILLAR 01 | Awareness Over Self-Judgment:
Understand why you feel stuck and reconnect with the strengths you already possess. We help you quiet your inner judge, not change who you are.
PILLAR 03 | Activating the Sage Mindset:
Pivot away from survival reflexes when facing adversity. Learn to extract long-term power, wisdom, and opportunity from every setback.
PILLAR 02 | Protecting Your Emotional Energy:
Understand the mechanics of "energy contagion." Gain the tools to insulate your mindset and maintain internal calm around stressful environments.
PILLAR 04 | Mastering Deliberate Choices:
Reclaim ownership of your actions. Graduate from automatic, defensive reactions and step into conscious, high-level decision-making.
The course, Become Your Own Champion, is for you, IF:
You’re doing everything right… but it doesn’t feel right.
Feel stuck in your thoughts even when life looks fine.
Carry stress, pressure, or disconnection.
React instead of responding to life's challenges.
Want more control over your mindset and energy.
- Are ready to reconnect to clarity, calm, and joy.
- Want to communicate effectively with others.
Dorice Horenstein
Dorice Horenstein helps organizations bring out the best in their people by creating a path to human flourishing under pressure. An international keynote speaker, Mental Fitness and Positive Intelligence® expert, and author of Choose to Be Your Own Champion and the best-selling Moments of the Heart, Dorice brings more than 30 years of leadership and education experience to her work with leaders and teams.
She equips people with the Champion Mindset and practical tools to think clearly, choose intentionally, and act confidently when it matters most.
With infectious energy, humor, and practical wisdom, Dorice transforms stress into clarity, disconnection into meaningful connection, and everyday challenges into opportunities for growth. Her unique approach connects brain and heart—combining neuroscience and mental fitness with decades of leadership experience and universal wisdom.
Dorice inspires people to rise to their Champion Level, strengthen relationships, and create workplaces where people and performance flourish together.
Take Control of Your Mindset Journey
Exceptional lives don't happen by accident—they are built through deliberate choices. Elevate how you think, communicate, and lead starting today.
A short clip from Become Your Own Champion
Customer Tips: Turn Every Interaction Into a Win
Curious what the course is like? Watch a short clip from one of the lessons and download a sample worksheet to experience Dorice's practical, action-oriented teaching style.
Sample Worksheet
What you'll work through:
→ A quick energy-check-in before the interaction
→ The "make it purposeful" reframe exercise
→ Your intention-setting prompt: what experience will you create?
→ A curiosity question you can use in any tense moment
→ Your "leave them better" commitment for the day
Ready for the complete experience?
The full Become Your Own Champion course includes 29 in-depth lessons with guided worksheets, practical exercises, and action plans covering leadership, management, sales, customer service, communication, and personal mental fitness.