Would you like to learn a simple but profound practice to help you down-regulate and calm your nervous system when you’re feeling stressed? Here, in this blog about my fourth conversation with Trauma Awareness Activist Shay Seaborne about stress, trauma and … Continue reading →
Tis the season for giving and receiving gifts. Do you know which you like best? Do you know how you respond physically and emotionally to giving and receiving? Does it matter? I think it does, and had reason to delve … Continue reading →
As I sat in my office a couple of days ago, writing my April newsletter, there was a lingering nervousness in my body that I detected as a heightened awareness of my heart beating and extra tension in my neck … Continue reading →
My last blog post – Lessons in Uncertainty – touched a nerve with a lot of people. It seems many of you can relate to the stress that uncertainty can create. Since I wrote it, I received and replied to … Continue reading →
I feel in limbo – not quite able to move forward. Here’s the situation: I’m in charge of the sale of my parents’ house in England following my father’s death in April and my mother’s move into a care home. … Continue reading →
I just had a crash course in this when I visited my parents in Sheffield (UK) for two weeks in January. It’s hard. A bit of background – my mum has Alzheimer’s and has deteriorated a lot since I last … 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 →
Do you resist ease? I confess. I do. I do so even though I am fully aware of the benefits of bringing more ease into my life; even though I know specific strategies that can help me to shift from … 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 →
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 →
