Tag Archive for: self-renewal

Pause. Are You Honoring Your Sacred Journey?
Newsletter, Self-Care“Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart. Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.” - Rumi
Every Sunday morning I facilitate a movement…

Pause. Are You Honoring Your Sacred Journey?
Newsletter, Self-Care“Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart. Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.” - Rumi
Every Sunday morning I facilitate a movement…

How Do You Make People Feel?
Mindfulness, Newsletter“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” Maya Angelou
It's a big week for my family. My 22 year-old son is graduating from college this…

Is Your Pace Humane? 8 Ways to Slow Down
Mindfulness, NewsletterOne day I found myself sitting in my car in a downtown Austin parking garage feeling exhausted. All day, I had been juggling traffic, conference calls, schedule changes and work requests from clients. Now, I couldn't find a parking spot, I was…

Don’t Believe Everything You Think!
Mindfulness, Newsletter“The truth is, we don’t know what’s going to happen—we just think we do. Often we make a big deal out of something. We blow up scenarios in our minds about all the terrible things that are going to happen. Most of the time we are wrong.…

When We Change Our Perspective, We Change Our Thoughts
Mindfulness, Newsletter, self-compassionLast week a dear friend was lamenting about how overwhelmed and exhausted she was feeling. She was being critical about her perceived inability to "manage it all." I listened quietly, gave her a long hug and asked," Have you perhaps forgotten…

You Are Not a Self-Improvement Project
Newsletter, Self-CareOne rainy, Saturday morning, I was lying in bed reading from author Anne Lamott's beautiful little book Small Victories. In one of her stories about parenting, she shares with a little self-deprecation, but mostly tenderness, how she doesn't…

Self-Care = Meeting Yourself Where You Are
Newsletter, Self-CareSelf-care is not about adding something to your to-do list. It's about cultivating new ways of being with yourself ~ Renee Trudeau
I have a dear friend in Austin who is known for her bubbly, outgoing positivity. But, when she and I are alone…

We Gotta Feel It to Heal It
Mindfulness, NewsletterHow 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 these…

The Only New Year’s Resolution You’ll Need
Newsletter, Self-CareMy husband and I just finished an exhausting cross-country move from Austin, TX to the mountains of Western, NC. On the last night of the move, we needed some mindless TV and streamed Leave the World Behind, an apocalyptic thriller about cyber…

(Video) Where Are You Finding Spiritual Renewal this Holiday?
Newsletter, Spiritual Renewal, Spiritual Self-careI woke up this morning craving the powerful music of Handel's Messiah. I grew up with a mother who was a gifted classical musician and this piece would permeate our home during the month of December. I listen to the Messiah at high volume and…

(Video) 5 Tips for Finding Rest & Renewal this Holiday
Newsletter, Self-Care"If we're tired we think something is wrong. Nothing is wrong. We're just tired and need rest. Sometimes a lot of it, if we've gone for years vetoing our body's signals. ~ Dr. Claudia Welch
This past weekend I could not get enough naps. I was…