The tide was out this morning. Way out. No, I don’t live on the water - and wasn’t even searching for shells on the shoreline. “The Tide” is what I’ve started calling the ups and downs of my feelings since the emergence of COVID-19. The ins and outs. The waves.
Read MoreCreativity is one of our best resources during this pandemic. Engaging your creativity can help you feel more safe, hopeful, and connected - and we share a few ideas of how to connect to your inner artist.
Read MoreMaybe You Should Talk to Someone, by therapist Lori Gottlieb, allows readers to peak behind the curtain and see just what goes on in a therapy session. Taking this one step further, the author allows readers to enter into her own therapy sessions with hertherapist.
Read MoreWhile watching the new Brene Brown Netflix special “Call to Courage,” I kept forgetting I was watching a shame researcher talking about her data points and felt more like I was watching a new comedy special. Hilarious and down-to-earth, Brene Brown is at her best: making years of research on vulnerability, shame and courage accessible and relatable to the rest of us.
Read MoreA word that is thrown around a lot in therapy, yoga and other mindful practices is Compassion. It’s one of those words, or concepts, that sounds warm and lovely as an idea but for many of us seems distant and out of reach. The truth is, deep Compassion has a massive amount of power…
Read More“Self- care” has become common vernacular and is associated for many with the idea of “treating yourself.” Images of pedicures, lavish bubble baths, a glass of wine after a long work day, buying something you do not need but definitely want. Is this self-care?
Read MoreThere are days - or whole seasons of life - where we feel unwell or exhausted. The irony is during those times self care often seems unattainable. We are already tired, so to try to figure out what we need and how to get it just feels like another task.
Read MoreHave you ever bought a cheap item of clothing only to have it fall apart after a few wears? The seams come undone, the material does not hold its shape after being washed, the color fades or bleeds. Every season, you find yourself replacing the same items, because the previous item had to be trashed. You are back at square one.
Read MoreYou know the scene: its the climax of a die-hard-style action movie where one character is forced to choose whether or not to place their lives in the hands of another. “Do you trust me?!” Their lives hang in the balance.
Read MoreThe practice of breathing deeply for a couple minutes also marks the transition into our time together, as if to say, “This space is sacred ground, let us enter it mindfully.”
Read MoreIt takes immense courage to bring that story out into the world, to share with another human being what we may be thinking, feeling, experiencing. There are reasons we stay silent about our pain, our anger, our grief. We have learned, sometimes through explicit instruction such as, “We do not talk about that,” and often through implicit example, that we are not to speak of our difficult feelings or experiences because it makes others feel uncomfortable.
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