self-care

New Symptoms Popping Up During Your Healing Journey? Watch This.

2020-12-14T17:04:28-08:00

In this Q&A style video, I answer a VERY important question about uncomfortable signs and symptoms that pop up when we enter into a deep healing process with our nervous system. Some might call this a *healing crisis* - but for me, it is simply Healing. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I mention A [...]

New Symptoms Popping Up During Your Healing Journey? Watch This.2020-12-14T17:04:28-08:00

How to Set Healthy Boundaries in a Toxic Relationship

2020-12-14T17:05:12-08:00

In this Q&A video, I answer a difficult question around how to set healthy boundaries when a spouse is being, um, not so nice. Not an easy one to answer – but we need to have these important conversations around relationships, and what it takes to ensure we set boundaries [...]

How to Set Healthy Boundaries in a Toxic Relationship2020-12-14T17:05:12-08:00

Anger Is Essential… Here’s Why

2020-12-14T17:06:48-08:00

  Anger. What is it? Pure and simple anger is an emotion. It’s an essential, high-energy emotion that’s been getting a bad rap for way too long. When I speak and teach around this topic, the first thought people have is: “Well, we can’t go around being savages and slay [...]

Anger Is Essential… Here’s Why2020-12-14T17:06:48-08:00

Are You a Self-Care Junkie?

2020-12-23T11:48:36-08:00

  I'm a big believer in bodywork and getting help from an array of practitioners (mostly somatic and mind-body: osteopathy, massage, Rolfing, Feldenkrais, Somatic Experiencing, etc.) when need be. Today's video gives you some suggestions for getting the most bang for your buck. Of course, we don't always have the [...]

Are You a Self-Care Junkie?2020-12-23T11:48:36-08:00

The Importance of Ebb and Flow For Avoiding All Things Burnout.

2020-03-17T16:12:25-07:00

When was the last time you slept all day on a Sunday and really, like REALLY, rested? And, by the way, not because you were sick in bed with a flu or cold! Back in February, I did exactly this and it wasn't because I was sick. I was [...]

The Importance of Ebb and Flow For Avoiding All Things Burnout.2020-03-17T16:12:25-07:00

The prevention bus is more than just one thing. November is National Prevention Month (according to Kris Carr at least!)

2019-04-30T13:06:28-07:00

I want to tell you about Kris Carr. I had the pleasure of shaking Kris' hand last week while in NYC. She glows. Luminous would be the adjective I'd use. She is the poster child for self-care and prevention. She even named November "National Prevention Month". Here's what she wrote [...]

The prevention bus is more than just one thing. November is National Prevention Month (according to Kris Carr at least!)2019-04-30T13:06:28-07:00

“The Descending Line” and its importance for reducing our stress levels and improving our well-being (and the importance of spontaneous breath and restoring order to our internal milieu)

2019-04-30T13:06:30-07:00

"Habitual repression of emotion leaves a person in a situation of chronic stress, and chronic stress creates an unnatural biochemical milieu in the body, [ ], Disease , in other words, is not a simple result of some external attack but develops in a vulnerable host in whom the  internal [...]

“The Descending Line” and its importance for reducing our stress levels and improving our well-being (and the importance of spontaneous breath and restoring order to our internal milieu)2019-04-30T13:06:30-07:00

Awareness or Survival: What came first?

2019-04-30T13:06:39-07:00

Survival would be the answer to that question. If you are joining for the first time, this is a series I am plugging away at titled "Creating Your Own Personal Instruction Manual" . I'm going to look at this survival idea from a very brain-oriented fashion. And rather than write [...]

Awareness or Survival: What came first?2019-04-30T13:06:39-07:00

Create some new instructions for you: What actually is self-help & health?

2019-04-30T13:06:40-07:00

This is the beginning of a series that I am plugging away at titled "Creating Your Own Personal Instruction Manual" . The breadcrumb trail to go with these series of post are here ("what stands between you & that more effortless version of you") & here ("reverse engineer your health: become [...]

Create some new instructions for you: What actually is self-help & health?2019-04-30T13:06:40-07:00