Tag Archive for: self-compassion
(Video) What Constitutes A Perfect Day for You?
Newsletter, Self-Care Over the years, I've learned that how I enter my day is how I do my day. Yesterday, I woke up feeling AMAZING. When I reflected back on the previous 24 hours, I learned a lot about what elements contribute to me having a perfect day (and what…
(Video) What is the Summer Your Soul Desires?
Newsletter, Self-Care “Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.” ― Pablo Neruda, poet/author
I fell in love with Western North Carolina in summer 2014 when I was in Asheville doing a book signing. I have traveled…
(Video) What Are You Normalizing?
Newsletter, Self-Care "A habit is a choice that we deliberately make at some point, and then stop thinking about, but continue doing, often every day." Charles Duhigg, author, The Power of Habit We just returned from visiting our son at college in WI. After…
(Video) Why Slowing Down is a Superpower
Newsletter, Self-Care “If we would just slow down, happiness would catch up to us.” ― Richard Carlson, Ph.D., author, "Don't Sweat the Small Stuff .... And, It's All Small Stuff." Feel like everything is moving really fast? Me, too. When I feel my breathing…
(Video) What Do You Need to Heal Right Now?
Newsletter, Self-Care“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” ― Rumi I believe we're just beginning to understand how the pandemic has affected our individual and collective psyches and how it has served as a catalyst--personally and professionally--for…
4 Ways to Invoke Self-Compassion
Mindfulness, NewsletterEver notice when you're seeing everything that's not working ... rather than everything that is? Last week I was here. Then, I paused. I stepped on to my front porch to look at the trees and drink in the reminder that I'm going through numerous…
(Video) The Reminder We Probably All Need Now
Newsletter, Self-CareEveryone I know has shared how challenging the last two weeks have been. Collectively and individually many of us have been navigating emotionally-wrought times. Even if your own life seems stable, we're all affected by what happens in the "collective"…
Can You Be With Things Exactly As They Are?
Mindfulness, NewsletterEverywhere 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…
(Video) How Can I Be More Compassionate with Myself?
Newsletter, Self-CareI'll never forget one day in my late twenties leaving a massage therapy session after a long work week and hearing the practitioner share, "Renee, be gentle with yourself." She stopped me in my tracks. I had no idea what she meant. I left curious…
(Video) How Connected Are You?
emotional self-care, Newsletter, Self-CareResearcher and journalist Johann Hari, describes in his best-selling book, Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solution nine types of connection that we all need to thrive. He believes connection…
(Video) How Can I Be My Own Ally?
Newsletter, Self-CareI've got a lot going on right now. It's almost dizzying. It seems many of us have gotten off the pandemic-induced "limbo train" and are starting to move forward. Yesterday I found myself being critical of all that I had not accomplished. …
Feeling Lost or in Limbo? That’s OK!
Newsletter, Self-CareRecently I was leading a retreat for a group of women. While waiting to enter the workshop space one of them asked me, "So how are you doing?" I breathed. Paused. Closed my eyes. And said, "Wobbly." Everyone around me nodded their heads in…