Tag Archive for: tara brach
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…
(Video) How Can You Release Anxiety (3 ways to begin)?
Newsletter, Self-Care
“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…
We Have to Feel It to Heal It
Life Balance, MindfulnessHow 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…
If you don’t feel it, you can’t heal it
Newsletter, Self-CareI love Fred Rogers' line from from the wonderful movie based on his life, "Anything that's human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about (and feel) our feelings, they become less overwhelming,…
You have to feel it, to heal it
Newsletter, Self-CareHow 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…
When we feel it, we heal it
Life Balance, MindfulnessHow 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…
Maybe it’s time to re-frame your circumstances?
Life Balance, Mindfulness
I was once at a workshop with mindfulness teacher Tara Brach where she shared a line about a son who sends his mother a telegram that reads, "Start worrying. Reasons to follow shortly." I love this!
Have you ever found yourself in an…
5 things I learned about myself in 2013
Mindfulness
There's something magical about this window of time as one year ends and another is about to begin. It's a pregnant pause: ripe with possibility and potential. To me, it feels especially so this year.
Yesterday I challenged our 6th…
Feeling=healing: 4 ways to begin
Life Balance
This is the time of year that many of us who have lost loved ones can feel particularly tender. Both of my parents and my brother died between 1992-2000. The anniversaries of their passing and the holidays--when the absence of their physical…
On being anxious (and how to remove cat hairs)
Mindfulness
The summer before 6th grade, my parents moved me and my four brothers across the country--away from my best friends Ann, Karen and Laura--to an alternative school on a yoga commune in the Sierra Nevada mountains of CA (this was part…
We Need Each Other
Self-Care
"No matter how much we meditate or pray, we still need others to help us dismantle the walls of our isolation and remind us of our belonging." - Tara Brach (Thanks Jen Louden.)
A few weeks ago I led a work-life balance mini retreat for a group…