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Do you? Do you mind your mind? What I mean is, how are you making meaning around your life and the events in it? As a social worker, I have always been greatly concerned how the context of our lives affect our spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical bodies. Over the years I have become increasingly aware […]
Being a parent today is no walk in the park. Especially with anxious kids. We are up against commercialism. Every advertisement on TV, billboards, radio, in movies, webpages, (on practically every surface we see) touts the message that we deserve things, just because we are us. This message gets under our skin, we like it,
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How do I transcend fear? Two things to keep in mind: Connect Fear often has us feeling very alone. If we have experienced trauma in our life, this sense of vulnerability multiplies to a panic. Some of us isolate ourselves, which only makes the situation worse. Others feel an intense need to be around someone
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Do you find it is hard to motivate yourself? If you are a highly motivated person, you don’t need to read this post. Go take a nap. If you have all kinds of excuses to get things done, read on… What is motivation? Motivation is a term that refers to a process that elicits, controls, and sustains
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This post about the benefits of yoga is by Rachel from the Capricious Yogi. When Jodi asked me to write an article about the benefits of yoga, I thought…”sure, that’s easy, no problem!” But as I started to consider what I wanted to say, I found myself flooded with reasons why someone should begin a yoga
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So many people who are going through hell tell me that sometimes they feel like getting away from themselves. Escaping. “I wanted to run a way from myself, I felt so horrible,” a man recently told me. He thought he was crazy. I have felt this feeling on many occasions, and we probably all have.
When you allow yourself to feel, you allow yourself to heal… Many of us experience a situation like the loss of a friend or rejection of a lover and feel pain in our hearts. Panic sets in as we fear the painful feeling and what it might mean to our life. Soon, we begin to
Your surroundings affects you strongly. If you were living with someone who abused you or worked with someone who criticized you, for example, it would be difficult for you to be freely ourselves and find peace of mind in your space. Same goes for our physical surroundings, for example, stale air, minimal light, and clutter affect
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