blog posts
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Connect With Your Heart
What helps you connect with you heart? Do you have any practices that help you tune in? And if so, how often are you doing them? I’ve been sitting with this idea for a few months now, and I’m realizing that I do best when I check in with my heart many times a day……
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How to release pressure
Invitation to a simple exercise to release pressure in your body, mind and spirit: Where are you putting pressure on yourself? And what I mean here is not really in an intellectual sense. I mean literally. Where do you feel pressure in your system? If you do a scan right now, where do you feel…
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A love-note to your body
Today, I invite you to send a love-note to your body, using your intention, awareness, and energy. If you’ve been with me for a while, you may already know that in the Fall I tend to focus on the Lungs and the process of grieving. In the Daoist tradition, there’s a relationship between the Fall,…
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How to work with your inner bully
Noticing your inner bully can be tricky. Have you checked in with your inner dialogue recently? How are you talking to yourself? What I’ve noticed recently… in friends, colleagues and clients… is that there’s been an uptick in awareness of a certain mean inner-dialogue going on. Have you noticed this? A mean voice that’s telling…
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How to Listen to Your Heart
When you take a moment to slow down, it’s often easier to listen to your heart. If you check in with yourself now, who’s in charge at the moment…your mind, or the wisdom of your heart…? If you aren’t used to asking yourself this, the difference can be tricky to notice. To me, the greatest…
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How to Cultivate Joy
Last week I spent a beautiful 8 days out in the wilderness… Camping and swimming and walking. I love being outdoors, among the trees, communing with bodies of water, away from all technological devices… For me, there’s a deep stillness that’s present in the wilderness, and I’m so grateful that I chose to spend 8…
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Deep self-forgiveness practice
Why would you need a self-forgiveness practice? As someone who’s experienced abusive situations… I’ve been sitting with the idea of internalizing blame and shame. This habit is also something I’ve witnessed in many of my clients. Directing blame inwards seems to be a very common way of trying to control a situation and feel safe…even…
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How to feel safe
What helps you feel safe? I’ve been sitting with this idea recently. What is safety? What is stability? As you may already know, my home life growing up was not safe or stable. And when I left home for college, the seeds of this feeling of lack of safety stayed with me. One of the…
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How to be deeply good to yourself
What does being good to yourself look like right now? This is a question I’ve been exploring a lot recently. I’ve found it to be a potent way to check in and see what I truly need… ….what would be a gentle reset… …what is aligned with my highest good in this moment… The answer…
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How to (and why) to set intentions
What’s your favorite process to set intentions? And how often do you touch base with your intentions? One thing I really like is journaling. I find that writing helps me get clear on what’s been going on in my mind and get settled before setting intentions. By the way, if you happen to be in…
