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 …
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 …
Why you need to take care of your mental health
Mental health is tricky because many people don’t even realize that they have a mental illness. Usually it is because they have been living with that negative voice that lives inside their head for so long that it seems normative that they live that way. However it is possible for you to find solace, joy and a better life if …
Learning to love your body all the time
When sickness strikes or one begins to feel aches and pains or maybe there is some weight gain. Ad even in more extreme cases when we struggle with some time of mental illness. We may get angry at our body for “working against us.” We may say why is my body doing this to me? Why me? At these …
Thriving through transition
Life is one big transition. ~Willie Stargell Transition and change are the one constant in our lives. Things come and go. The only thing we can do about life is to embrace where we are today, instead of urning for the past. Transition is difficult because it makes us re write the story that we tell ourselves. As humans we …
Why Denial is not working for you
“Denial does not change reality for everyone else. Only for the one denying and those who are foolish enough to believe the fantasy.”~ Elle Casey Denial is an interesting defense mechanism. It helps us to survive things that are too difficult for our psyche to handle and it helps us push through. The only problem with using denial as a …
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