Healthy Ways to Heal Through Your Grief
Guest Post by Camille Johnson with The Bereaver / Image via Pexels If you’re grieving the loss of a loved one, there has never been a more critical time in your life to set goals for yourself. While you may experience days when you don’t feel like doing anything or even getting out of bed, establishing realistic […]
Caregivers Need to Care for Themselves, Too
Guest Post by Alexis Hall, Image via Pexels If you’re a family caregiver or informal caregiver, you know the role can be intense. You may be working, caring for a loved one, and giving attention to children and other family members. It can be hard to care for an individual with cognitive decline or whose […]
Why Blessing a Meal Matters
Ever wonder why so many spiritual traditions have a ritual designed around blessing the food you consume? Although they are different, many serve the same purpose. To get you to a place of parasympathetic response before you eat. Thus upping the chance that you will get the nutrition you need and be better prepared to […]
Seasonal Mood Shifts: 3 Ways to Stay Grounded This Fall
For many the season of autumn is difficult. Depending on where you live, it’s full of things dying, leaves falling, colder weather, darker days, and a general sense of ending. In addition, to the messiness of leaves and seeds flying around, it gets blustery which can be hard on our nervous systems. According to Esienberg […]
Self Regulation Tip: A quick way to calm the F*** down.
Feel like you struggle to regulate yourself? Can’t seem to find a way to calm down when things are tough. Just Breathe … and here’s why. Take 5 long breaths in and slow your exhale. Begin your count on the exhale and it will automatically slow your inhale. This equals about 30 seconds of deep […]
The Power of Your Thoughts
Ever wonder why two people can be in a similar situation, but one of them is positive about it and the other negative? Here’s why. The power of your thoughts cannot be underestimated. Use them wisely. I see many people in my practice who struggle to turn their mind. This is the primary need in […]
7 Sentences for Successful Goal Setting
Photo Credit: All in The Mind. People often underestimate what it will take to be successful in a goal. Many times they have chosen a large goal and then fail to break it into smaller pieces. For example I once had a woman tell me she needed to lose 50lbs in 3 weeks for a wedding […]
Working with Ambivalence … the parts of you that want to change & the parts that don’t.
Ever wonder why it is so hard to make big changes … or even small ones for that matter? It is often because we have what is known as ambivalence. This concept that part of us wants to change and part of us does not. We have a small war going on inside ourselves between […]
15 Steps to Find Everyday Inspiration
To be effective with ourselves and our teams we must recognize that motivation comes from within, but is first inspired. So rather than chase motivation we must find inspiration. If we are leading a team of people we must look to inspire rather than motivate. If we are working with ourselves we have to figure […]
Realistic Goal Setting
Photo Credit: All in The Mind. People often underestimate what it will take to be successful in a goal. Many times they have chosen a large goal and then fail to break it into smaller pieces. For example I once had a woman tell me she needed to lose 50lbs in 3 weeks for a wedding […]
