Note: This blog is adapted from my newsletter that went out to my mailing list on May 22, 2018. If you already work with me or are part of my BodyIntelligence Community on Facebook, you probably know that last month … Continue reading →
The simple answer: Self-care. Self-care is one of my seven key strategies for relieving stress and is the simplest and most effective way to PREVENT stress and overwhelm from taking hold in the first place. In fact, it is a … Continue reading →
We are always going to find ourselves in stressful situations. That’s a given. Learning to respond differently – in a way that reduces significantly the amount of stress we experience, before, during and afterward – is key. Here are seven … Continue reading →
“…self-compassion is a powerful way to achieve emotional well-being….” Kristin Neff writes this in the first chapter of her book, Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself. I’m in the middle of reading this book. It’s the current … Continue reading →
A few weeks ago, I wrote about free-writing, and how helpful I was finding it – helpful in sorting out my thoughts, writing blogs, class planning, sifting through problems, and so forth. How such a “purposeless” task, was actually helping … Continue reading →
Stress is all around us. Or, more accurately, potential sources of stress – stressors – are all around us – everywhere you look! Even as I sit at my desk writing this, I can look around my office, and find … Continue reading →
“I am free to have ease in my heart.” So said one of the participants in my class last Wednesday. It was the first of my local weekly BodyIntelligence small group classes. They are short classes – just an hour … Continue reading →
Do you like to exercise? I do and I don’t. My preferred types of exercise tend to be gentle. I love to walk, especially out in nature, and I do so virtually every day for about 45 minutes. I also … Continue reading →
“Today I am grateful for my mother’s cheerful attitude, and for the ease I notice in my back.” This is what I wrote in the BodyIntelligence Community Facebook group on March 16th, Day 3 of my “Gratitude and Ease” practice. I … Continue reading →
How many times a day do you tell yourself what you should be doing? Or what you should not be doing? Or should not be thinking? Or should not be feeling? This is just one of the ways we often … Continue reading →
