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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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Healing Through Yoga
There is no denying it, yoga has made its debut in America. There is a yoga studio on every corner. There are hundreds of yoga classes going on every day. Everyone seems to have at least thought about trying yoga at this point, if they haven’t already been to a class. Every week there seems…
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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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A Step Towards Self Compassion
Self compassion has been one of my themes this year, a thread in my life. To me, self compassion is the idea of creating space within for our imperfections, our fears, and giving ourselves permission to take care of ourselves, to do what nourishes our mind, body, and soul. In early 2015, I found myself…
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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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Can Mindfulness Change My Life?
We are all familiar with the ache of wanting change to happen but not being quite sure how actually to make it come into fruition. We can probably all also agree that it can be really hard to make change actually happen in our lives, even when it’s a shift that will make life more…
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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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Being Whimsical & Childlike with Clouds
Have you ever looked up and been awestruck, overcome by the beauty of white, puffy or whimsical clouds in the sky? I was recently in Arizona, and I looked up overhead and was awestruck by the array of white, whimsical, beautiful clouds flowing against a perfectly blue sky. All throughout the weekend I found myself…
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Cultivating Mindfulness
Often when I mention the idea of mindfulness meditation, of consciously sitting with ourselves and observing our own inner world, the usual response I receive is along the lines of: “I like that idea but I can’t do that, I can’t quiet my mind.” It is perfectly normal if when you sit to meditate you…
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The Silver Space
We are all familiar with the space of uncertainty, where nothing is quite decided, it’s neither black nor white- it’s gray. This space is often uncomfortable and confusing. Our natural inclination is to make it stop as quickly as possible, make everything solid, fit in a box, make sense again. But what if we are…