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Are you a Social Introvert?
Figuring out of you’re an introvert or an extrovert is important so you can embrace how you recharge and renew your own personal battery, it’s a way of incorporating the best self care tools for yourself. What often happens is that introverts feel that they have to be more outgoing or should “love to party”…
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Love & Connection Meditation
Happy Valentine’s Day! This beautiful meditation can be experienced with or without a partner. The beauty of this meditation is that we fill ourselves up with the energy of love and then send this beautiful energy, your gift, to the world around you! Meditation for Love & Connection: So let’s take a deep breath in…
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Creating Intimate Connections
Many of us long for an intimate connection with others. Those special connections where you feel like the person understands who you are beyond your exterior self. In the current era of Facebook and text messaging there seems to be a phenomena where we connect with others daily by photos and snippets of our lives,…
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Meditation for Joyful & Profound Connection
When we study yoga, we learn that the physical form (asana) of yoga is only one branch of yogic tradition. Yoga offers us many other ways to connect with the spiritual world. To practice yoga is a pathway to joining your individual soul to a universal soul. In recovery language it can be seen as…
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5 Ways to Stay Calm This Holiday Season
Happy Holidays! Can you believe that the Winter Holidays are already here?! There’s something about the holiday season that is so beautiful, so filled with joy and songs and family. Which is amazing and wonderful, but there’s also a whole bunch of messy added stress. Extra stress from holiday parties, trips to the store, buying…
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Connecting to the Night Sky
Yesterday in my Inner Peace in Recovery group that I offer weekly at the treatment center, we talked about our connection with the night. In this group of highly sensitive souls, it’s no surprise that many spoke about the peacefulness and quiet nature of the nighttime. Given the previous week’s conversation about how drug use…
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Kindness, Cookies, & Happiness
It absolutely amazes and inspires me that kindness can be found everywhere. While I was on a quick road trip up the California coast this past weekend, my husband and I stopped at a tiny town called Cayucos, and we stopped into a cute little cookie shop for dessert. And while the cookies at Brown…
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Actionable Steps to Increase Happiness and Joy
How many times a week are we asked the question- how are you doing, how was your day? And how do you answer? Have you ever noticed that often times when we’re asked about our days we usually complain about the bad stuff? It seems that it is our cultural norm to talk about the…
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Make Connection Happen
This simple act of connecting with another human being, no matter how small, raises your happiness levels. During our caveman days, our ancestors needed family and community in order to survive the challenges of day to day life. They ate together, hunted together, they even cuddled up in order to stay warm at night. Other…