Tag Archive for: slow living
(Video) How Can You Do Less (to experience more)?
Mindfulness, Newsletter
Last week I was juggling work deadlines, training a new staff member and packing up to head out of town for vacation. One evening, while driving to my community singing class (an hour away), I found myself feeling more and more tired. More…
(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) How Are You Caring for Your Heart?
emotional self-care, Newsletter“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…
8 Tips for Re-Balancing & Finding Your Center
Mindfulness, NewsletterRecently 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…
This is my favorite mantra (it may become yours)
Mindfulness, NewsletterI have recently moved to Western North Carolina after becoming an empty-nester. This big move—which we’ve been planning for four years—has been challenging, exciting and it has pushed me out of my comfort zone in many ways. One of the…
8 ways to come back in to balance
Mindfulness, NewsletterRecently I led a virtual online self-care workshop for parents who are navigating working from home, online school and parenting in the age of COVID. Erin, a woman I connected with in a dyad burst into tears and said, "This is SO hard.…
Is your pace sustainable? Release the need for speed
Mindfulness, NewsletterLast week I found myself sitting in my car in a downtown parking garage feeling exhausted. All day I had been juggling Austin traffic, conference calls, schedule changes and work requests from my team. Now, I couldn't find a parking spot, I…
Slowing down to the speed of summer
Mindfulness
One of my touchstones for gauging how fast--or slow--I'm living, is noticing if I have a vase of fresh herbs and flowers on my desk. When I'm living the life I desire, I create the time to meander in my garden and pick colorful and unusual…
Permission granted to slow down
Mindfulness
Ever since my son and I got back from our month off the grid in Western North Carolina--read What the Mountains Taught Me--I've been thinking about how speeded up we have all become: plowing through inhumane to-do lists, agreeing to crazy…