mindfulness

Can You Be With Things Exactly As They Are?

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Everywhere I go, people are echoing variations of the same song: the last several years changed how I see and feel about everything. I don't want to go back but I'm confused about my next steps. Now what?   Yes we're dynamic and things are…
self-care

(Video) Are You Making Connection a Priority?

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I woke up Monday morning feeling replenished and hopeful about the week ahead. My well was full. My fun, adventurous, intentional social connections over the weekend had fed me on so many levels! Often social connection and friend time falls…
self-care

4 Ways to Feel Better Fast

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Last week I received some alarming news about a close friend. Afterwards, I felt anxious, jumpy and unsettled. My brain was so flooded with stress hormones, I felt paralyzed and was struggling to remember any of my self-care tools!  Stress…
emotional self-care

(Video) How Are You Caring for Your Heart?

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“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.” ― Rumi Whew, last week was an intense one for me. I was navigating…
mindfulness

8 Tips for Re-Balancing & Finding Your Center

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Recently I led a virtual self-care workshop for parents in the communications field. Most are navigating working from home, a changing educational landscape and parenting in uncertain times. Erin, one of the attendees, shared with me through…
self-care

What Does Self-Care Mean to You? (Video)

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Last week I spoke at a women’s life balance event and afterwards I visited with an attendee who asked, “I know self-care is important, but I have no idea what I need and I’m not even sure where to start!” Can you relate?
stress management

Nature: the Ultimate Anti-Depressant (+ 9 Ideas to Get You Outside)

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Last week I spoke at a women’s life balance event and afterwards I visited with an attendee who asked, “I know self-care is important, but I have no idea what I need and I’m not even sure where to start!” Can you relate?
mindfulness

Are You Choosing Love or Fear? (Video)

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“Love After Love"  by Derek Walcott The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other's welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the…
mindfulness

How Do You Slow Down (when everything is sped up)?

“Something wonderful begins to happen with the simple realization that life, like an automobile, is driven from the inside out, not the other way around. As you focus more on becoming more peaceful with where you are, rather than focusing…

Sisterhood: How Do You Affirm Women?

I once spoke at a girls empowerment conference to a group of 300 ten to thirteen-year-olds. As I was waiting to go on stage, I overheard a small group of four young girls talking about their day. One of them was on fire after learning about…
mindfulness

(Video) Can You Be With What Is?

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  I sent my husband to the farmer's market last Saturday to get arugula, kale, spinach and lettuce. He came home with a hard-skinned, oblong Japanese squash.  Maybe this year is not going quite as you had planned? This past week I heard…
self-care

What Would Your Wise Self Say?

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This past weekend I took Saturday off for a personal retreat. I sat in front of the fireplace at my friend's empty home surrounded by art supplies, my 2022 journals and my cozy sherpa blanket. I meditated, practiced yoga, drew, journaled,…
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