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Transform Your Self Talk through Mindfulness & Emotional Self Care
A beautiful outcome of mindfulness meditation is the opportunity to slow down and explore our relationship with our minds. We meditate to understand the stories we tell ourselves about our lives and experiences. Oftentimes life can be uncomfortable and we respond to this discomfort by tuning out literally or figuratively by showing up impartially for…
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How to Stop Ruminating
When we make a mistake, or something really uncomfortable happens in our lives our minds tend to play and replay the scene over and over again. We think, “if only I could have done things differently,” and then our mind shows us the movie over and over again. This is called ruminating. A rumination…
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Breathe in Beauty
This morning I awoke to the tall, deep green trees outside my window blowing around in big, strong gusts of wind. The winds are accompanied by a beautiful, cool, winter morning light. I sit with hot tea warming my hands and watch the first rays of sunlight begin to fill the sky and my husband says…
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Embracing Curiosity
Yesterday I started anew here in Oregon, it was my first day of work at a new job. I felt the familiar tingle of fear of the unknown, which honestly looked like a hundred outfits thrown all over my floor. Starting a new job is messy, we are met with a thousand different, contradicting, and…
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The Ocean of Impermanence
Curious about the Buddhist idea of impermanence? Ask the ocean. For a moment, imagine sitting on a soft, white sandy beach looking out towards the ocean, waves moving in towards shore. Start to notice the ocean rise and fall, through her beautiful cycles of waves. Some waves meet the shore with a firework of explosion,…
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Rethinking Lazy
Ever been called lazy? It doesn’t feel good. According to Brene Brown, a professor and vulnerability expert, being called lazy is a huge shame trigger for many of us. Myself included. Calling ourselves lazy is a judgmental response that is created in our minds as an attempt to motivate ourselves to get something done. The problem…
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Finding Your Motivation
March offers us the spring equinox, a freshness in the air, the smell of orange blossoms and fresh spring flowers- I love this time of year. While every single day is an opportunity to start fresh and new, I think that the spring time offers up a special time to examine old winter routines and…
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Interviewing with Confidence
Interviewing has been a popular topic in my life lately as I transition to life in Portland. New city means looking for a new part time job while I establish myself and my practice. Which all means that there will be interviews. Regardless if you love or hate interviews, odds are we all have to…
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Just Notice
Have you ever struggled from overwhelming worry, thinking about something over and over and over again, like it was almost driving you crazy (or who knows maybe it was!). I know I’ve been there. Today was an exceptionally bad “in my head” type of day. I felt like my head is literally going to explode.…
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Am I Hypnotizable?
When people find out that I’m a trained hypnotherapist the first thing they ask is if I wave a pendulum in front of their face…And no, I don’t. The second question I’m always asked is – What if I can’t be hypnotized? And I always answer with: “Have you ever daydreamed?” YES, of course!! Daydreaming…