Last week, I attended a mindfulness retreat at the Outer Banks in North Carolina. After 3 days of mindfulness, meditation, coaching, sending loving kindness into the world, holding compassionate space for others, and discussions of helping and healing others, I fell...
Here in the south, the crisp feeling of Fall is in the air. With the change of the seasons, I think of the transition or changes in our lives we often want to make. Many people think that to make a change, you have to fight against something and *make it* different. I...
I know so many people (myself included) with a very loud and critical voice in the head, shouting bad advice like, “You are not good enough!” The gloom and doom voices that tell us we have to be a certain way or do something spectacular to be loved or...
Stress seems to be such a BIG part of our society now. Or at least all of the people I live and work with and it is a topic that is near and dear to my heart. When I taught my in-person class last month, one of the first things I said to the group was that it was...
Recently I was interviewed by a continuing education company regarding one of my research articles on yogic breathing as an attention treatment after stroke. There I was, talking to another professor and I said the words “energy” and “prana.”...
I believe the body has wisdom because it gives us signs and symptoms that are the messages we need: nutritionally, energetically, and emotionally.
I believe food is medicine and energy can heal.
I believe when we are in touch with spirit guides and nature, life gets way easier.
I believe that loving ourselves is a way to heal our bodies and our minds because the inner critic-- leads to dis-ease (and despair).
I believe in you.
