Wondering what grounding is? What to know how it helps one be more present in ones life? In this brief post you will learn what grounding is, how it can help to reduce stress and anxiety, and be more in the moment instead of stuck inside your mind. Grounding is based in mindfulness and uses your five senses: sight, touch, taste, …
4-7-8 Breathing Excercise
This weeks video is number three of the three part series in learning how to manage stress and anxiety through your breath. This week we will be learning the 4-7-8 breathing technique. Last week we talked about the 4 square breathing technique which helps to reduce anxiety and bring us into the present moment by giving us a cognitive and somatic …
Four Square Breathing Technique
View PostThe importance of noticing your breath
So you might wondering: Why is she she writing about the breath? Why it is important in our everyday lives? If we can be become more connected to our breath this can help us to calm our nervous system and learn to not feel so stressed. Through the work with my clients, learning about stress management and the science of …
Using sensations to develop a language of emotions
Personally for me prior to my path of self discovery, I had a very difficult time knowing what my feelings were. I could tell when I had the basic emotions are anger, happiness, surprise, disgust, sadness, and fear. It wasn’t until I started learning how to notice the sensations in my body that I could effectively how to learn the secondary …
How EFT can help with Anxiety
The way that I view anxiety is that it is fear, worry, and obsessing about future events. Anxiety plagues approximately 40 million adults between the ages of 18 to 54 in the US. Are you one of the 40 million? Would you like a drug free way to reduce anxiety in yourself? Why not try EFT?! EFT (aka Emotional Freedom Technique) …
How Art Therapy helps Anxiety
Art therapy what is that? How can that help me? How does it help anxiety and stress? Art Therapy is a way of combining talk therapy with the creation of art making. Did you know that when we just talk about anxiety and stress, can lead to your body re-experiencing the situation? When you create art it uses a different …
How to use affirmations and have them be effective
Affirmations help us to affirm the way that we want to see our lives. When I was first introduced to affirmations I was not yet a therapist and I was very skeptical about them actually working for me. So lets explore the science behind positive psychology and the use of affirmations. The thought behind affirmations is that you are stating …
Taking Charge of the Inner Critic
So it is 2017, it is January so everyone is reassessing their lives and trying to make changes. So what make us not attain our goals and fall back into old patterns? One reason is not having a good action plan, with measurable steps and ways of reinforcing goals. (I will write about setting and completing goals in another blog …
Vision
“In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.” ~Dalai Lama Sometimes we get caught up in waiting for what we want to manifest in our lives on its own. We operate by reacting to the present circumstances instead of actively working to create those opportunities for ourselves. Those suffering from depression and anxiety especially …
