Tag Archive for: slowing down

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(Video) How Can You Release Anxiety (3 ways to begin)?

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“Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns.” Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance This week, I'm getting real about anxiety and anchoring back to…
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(Video) How Can You Do Less (to experience more)?

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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…
self-care

(Video) What Constitutes A Perfect Day for You?

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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…
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(Video) What is the Summer Your Soul Desires?

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“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…
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(Video) What Are You Normalizing?

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"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…
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(Video) Why Slowing Down is a Superpower

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“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…
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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This is my favorite mantra (it may become yours)

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I 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…
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8 ways to come back in to balance

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Recently 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.…
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