Tag Archive for: slowing down

self-care

(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…
self-care

(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…
self-care

(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…
mindfulness

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…
mindfulness

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…
mindfulness

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…
mindfulness

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.…
mindfulness

Is your pace sustainable? Release the need for speed

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Last 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

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…
mindfulness

Permission granted to slow down

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…
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