mindfulness

5 Ways to Find Rest & Renewal This Week

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Last week I spent an hour with my calendar--not penciling things in, but revisiting pending events and making intentional choices that support a more open, spacious, restorative winter schedule. Does the thought of returning presents and attending…
mindfulness

8 Ways To Embrace Your Shadow

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While I love celebrating Christmas as a season of light and time of spiritual renewal, sometimes the days before and after this sacred holiday can be a bit dark for me. Between the cold, grey weather, honoring my deceased mother's Dec. 20th…
self-care

What Wakes You Up (+ a message from my Dad)?

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My father--a brilliant, eccentric, adventurous, life-loving physician and ardent student of philosophy--died suddenly of a heart attack at age 56 (my current age). He crossed over on Dec. 3rd leaving six children. "Don't die with your music…
mindfulness

Want to Feel Good? Get Grateful!

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Growing up, our overachiever family placed a high value on competency. Often that translated into a critical mindset toward self and others, where we frequently saw the bad before the good. This way of being, like all patterns, became habitual…
mindfulness

(Video) Are You Taking Time to Pause?

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This month I have been managing so many moving pieces -- working on our new web site, training new team members, booking new speaking engagements and workshops, vetting new partnerships--that I have found it hard just to hear myself think.
stress management

(Video) Many Things Are True at Once

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This month I have been managing so many moving pieces -- working on our new web site, training new team members, booking new speaking engagements and workshops, vetting new partnerships--that I have found it hard just to hear myself think.
mindfulness

Could Meditation Be Your Sanity Saver? 5 Ways to Begin

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I feel edgy, unsettled and a bit anxious. Between navigating several big life transitions, a move to a new home and some unexpected changes in my business--I’m not feeling too grounded. So rather than slide into my typical MO of over-doing,…
minfulness

(Video) Do You Push or Allow Things to Happen?

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“Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is a paradox: what is soft is strong.”―…
self-care

(Video) How Can I Calm My Mind?

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"I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet." Mahatma Gandhi Recently I had an ah-hah about my body, mind and nervous system and how a new unhealthy habit was affecting my sleep,  ability to release worry and stress,…

7 Reasons to Choose Love Over Fear

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I remember a few years ago showing up at my local polling place to vote and seeing a long line wrap around the building. The anxiety in and around the voting space was thick and palpable. After ten minutes of waiting, I almost turned around…
mindfulness

We Have to Feel It to Heal It

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How comfortable are you "feeling uncomfortable feelings?" During my 20's and 30's I experienced my parent's divorce, my brother's suicide, and the death of my mother and father.  All of the pain, sadness, betrayal, anger and abandonment…
mindfulness

Is Your Life Too Crowded?

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Ever feel like you're a robot going through the motions and living on auto-pilot? If this feeling creeps in to my day, I know it's time to pause and re-assess. I desire to feel awake, alive, joyful, engaged and curious--in all areas of my life!…
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