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Find Your Why: How to Master New Habits
Creating sustainable habits can be hard, especially when we don’t fully understand why we are doing them. The good news is there are three critical contents that help us make habits stick. Learn what they are and master new habits here!
Growing Old: Overcoming Internalized Ageism and Embracing Your Potential
Do you feel like your age limits you? Dread getting old? Learn to challenge age-related beliefs, shift to an age-thriving mindset, and unlock your true capabilities at any stage of life. Check out these inspirational stories and practical tips and exercises for overcoming age biases.
Living Gratefully: How to Practice Gratitude in Your Daily Life
Research shows that practicing gratitude can make you happier, more positive and deepens your resilience. How can you live gratefully and make it a part of your everyday life? Find out here!
Daily Journaling for Wellness: Benefits + Tips
Want to make journaling a daily habit? Learn how to get started and discover its benefits. Getting your thoughts onto paper can reduce stress, boost mental clarity and even improve your physical health.
6 Tips for Balancing During Vata Season
Changing seasons can cause us to feel out of balance. The shift in the natural world brings new qualities that we have to adjust to. Vata season (fall and winter) brings light, cool and dry qualities that can change our mental and physical states. Try out these 6 tips to combat excess vata.
Combatting Perfectionism: Why Do We Want to Be Perfect?
Why do we want to be perfect? To impress others? Ourselves? To avoid failure? Perfection is impossible, yet we strive for it. Letting go of perfectionism can diminish stress and anxiety and increase productivity. Here are some tips for overcoming perfectionist tendencies.
Visualize Your Future: My Vision Board Tips and Tricks
I have always wanted to create a vision board and I finally did! While the process might not have been what I expected. I learned to embrace the challenges that emerged and get clear on my "why".
The Spheres of Personal Control: Letting Go of What You Can’t Control
Do you find yourself trying to control the world around you? Getting frustrated by people's actions? Understanding what areas of life can and can't be controlled will allow you to let go of the little things and direct your energy towards what truly matters.
How Our Relationships Shape Who We Are
Ever wondered how the people in your life shape who you are? Who we surround ourselves with can change our attitudes, moods, and even our beliefs. Complete this self-discovery exercise to explore how your relationships might be affecting your personal growth.
Take a Break: How a Leave of Absence, a red light and an alone rock are the way through.
Taking a break or stepping away from something often has a negative connotation. It feels weak like you are giving up. However, breaks are necessary. My story about taking a leave of absence from work turned out to be the key to getting unstuck.
Life Lessons from My Lab
If you've ever had a pet, you understand the impact they can have. My lab taught me that there are many life lessons we can learn from dogs. I learned to wag my tail often, growl sometimes, bark sparking and most importantly, conquer my fears.
Shoshin: Nurturing a Beginner’s Mind for Personal Growth
Being a beginner can be a scary feeling, but embracing that feeling is where the best learning happens. Embracing shoshin, or beginner's mind, is a way to cultivate curiosity, eliminate judgment and foster understanding.
Smiling As Medicine
Smiling is powerful! Believe it or not, a simple smile actually has health benefits. It can boost our mood, reduce stress and strengthen our immune system. You can even fake it til you make it. Find your reasons to smile!
Anger is Poison: Let It Go
Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die. While anger is a natural response, it puts our bodies in fight or flight mode, leading to rash decisions and health issues. Learn how to let go of anger and take care of your brain.
Cultivating Self-Compassion
Our brains tend to be our worst critic. Cultivating self-compassion and silencing our inner critic is the number one thing I work on with my clients. Complete this self-compassion exercise based on Kristin Neff's work to turn your criticism into understanding.
Autonomic Nervous System: Balancing Work and Rest
Working too much but can't seem to take a break? Or resting too much and can't seem to get motivated? Understanding the autonomic nervous system can help! Learn how to trick our bodies into creating balance.
Do You Hate Feeling Hungover?
Changing habits isn't easy, but getting clear on why we want to change them will lead to change. Through journaling, I realized how awful drinking made me feel. I learned to shift my mindset in order to change my drinking habits and avoid hangovers. I was gaining health benefits, not losing fun.
Mindful Awareness Exercise- RAIN
The RAIN acronym helps us pause and come back to the present moment. Recognize, allow, investigate, and nurture in order to become more aware.
How to “Snack”: Small Changes for Healthy Habits
Incorporating healthy habits into your routine can be intimidating. If you are too busy, overwhelmed, or just don't know where to start, this technique is for you. Snacking allows you to create small changes and slowly build up habits.
CARE Method: Practice Presence and Non-Judgment
The CARE method is designed to help you build stronger connections. By retraining your brain to be more present and less judgemental, your conversations will improve! Learn what it means and try it out the next time you find your brain wandering during conversation.