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Celebrate The Unexpected Pauses In Your Life Too

Celebrate The Unexpected Pauses In Your Life Too

"There is the in-breath and there is the out-breath, and it's easy to believe that we must exhale all of the time, without ever inhaling.  But the inhale is absolutely essential if you want to continue to exhale."  - Dr. Joan Halifax I read this quote a few...

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Be Consistent To Create The Powerful Changes That You Want

Be Consistent To Create The Powerful Changes That You Want

Consistency is a powerful tool that can help bring about positive shifts and changes in your life. It means committing to doing something repeatedly because you recognize its value. Whether it's showing up to your yoga mat every day, meditating regularly, exercising...

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How To Recognize The Right Timing For Making A Change

How To Recognize The Right Timing For Making A Change

For many of us, midlife is about the time that we begin to question our life.  Those questions might include...What have I accomplished?  What is my life's purpose?  What am I going to do with the years that I have left?  Is it time for a big change in my life?  With...

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Meditation and Yoga: How They Can Help Caregivers

Meditation and Yoga: How They Can Help Caregivers

Guest Blog post written by Jennifer McGregor Photo via Unsplash When a senior is no longer able to perform daily tasks safely on their own, a caregiver is the person who steps in and takes care of those responsibilities. Caregivers can be formal (paid) or informal...

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How To Thrive And Feel Emotionally Complete Again

How To Thrive And Feel Emotionally Complete Again

Have you ever noticed that there are parts of yourself that are harder to accept than others?  It might be a certain emotion that you frequently but don't want to feel. It might be the way that you act but wish that you didn't. Whatever it is, there are parts of...

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How To Be Consistent In Life and Achieve Your Goals

How To Be Consistent In Life and Achieve Your Goals

When thinking about making a change in my life, I can get stuck.  The fear of making that change can keep me from moving forward in my life.  When this is happening, it feels like I'm paralyzed and unable to take action.  This is especially true if the change is...

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Connect To Yourself After Big Life Changes

Connect To Yourself After Big Life Changes

While cleaning up my home office the other day, I ran across something that I wrote about 7 years ago.  It struck me as interesting because I was going through the first part of my yoga therapy training when I wrote it and this was a period of a lot of introspection...

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Your Choices Make You Who You Are

Your Choices Make You Who You Are

I've been thinking about choice this week.  Sometimes we may feel like we don't have a choice, but usually we do.  It may be that you have 2 options and neither of them are really great, but you still get to choose between the 2 not so great options.  It's that choice...

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7 Ways To Describe The Benefits Of Your Breath

7 Ways To Describe The Benefits Of Your Breath

The breath is one of the most important things in our lives. It's essential for our survival, but it's also a powerful tool for our health and well-being. The breath is one of the few bodily functions that is both automatic and something that we can change or control....

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Yoga Therapy Is Helpful For Complex PTSD

Yoga Therapy Is Helpful For Complex PTSD

Complex PTSD is a mental health condition that can develop after prolonged exposure to trauma. It's characterized by a number of symptoms, including flashbacks, nightmares, difficulty trusting others, and emotional dysregulation. Yoga therapy can be an effective...

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Support Change And Heal From The Inside Out

Support Change And Heal From The Inside Out

When I'm in a transitional period of life, I can get inpatient.  I'm going from one thing to another and I want to be on the other side of the change already.  Not in a few months, but right now.  I want to get to the results but not experience all of the growth that...

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How To Trust Yourself And Build An Authentic Life

How To Trust Yourself And Build An Authentic Life

To me, an authentic life is a life that is true to your own beliefs, goals, and desires. In order to live an authentic life, you have to learn to trust yourself so that you can uncover those beliefs, goals and desires. Only then can you start to plan your life in a...

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How To Heal Your Deep Trauma One Layer At A Time

How To Heal Your Deep Trauma One Layer At A Time

Like so many of you, I've experienced trauma in many forms. Over time, those traumas have become layers of experience that weave in and among one another. This has resulted in deep trauma that can't be ignored if I want to live a full and happy life. Instead, I've had...

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The Life Changing Magic Of Listening To Your Body

The Life Changing Magic Of Listening To Your Body

When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know.  But if you listen, you may learn something new. - Dalai Lama I love this quote!  It spoke to me this week on so many levels.  Why? Well, first in my line of work, I spend a lot of time listening to other...

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Quit Your To Do List And Feel Happy More Often

Quit Your To Do List And Feel Happy More Often

To do lists have a tendency to expand exponentially. Unfortunately, they aren't always realistic and often contain more items than are possible for you to accomplish in a set period of time. When my to do list starts to get out of control, I start to feel tired, edgy,...

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How To Stop Setting Unrealistic Expectations For Yourself

How To Stop Setting Unrealistic Expectations For Yourself

Do you know how things will sometimes come up repeatedly in a short period of time? I had that happen recently and found interesting correlations. So, what kept coming up? Well, I've had multiple conversations where people are saying that they should do this or they...

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My Number One Reminder To Help You Take Time To Rest

My Number One Reminder To Help You Take Time To Rest

I was lucky in that I didn't get Covid early in the pandemic. Even though I work with people in person, I was fortunate to be able to avoid the virus for a very long time. Eventually though I did get it and it forced me to take time to rest. I'm someone who will push...

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Uncommon Wisdom To Love  And Value Yourself Unconditionally

Uncommon Wisdom To Love And Value Yourself Unconditionally

I felt a little irritable this morning.  The root of this irritability was that I felt tired & needed to rest after a long day yesterday.  I didn't think that I really had time to rest all day, so I took it slow and did a few things instead of all of the things on...

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I'm a mom of 2 and a yogini. I have over 15 years of experience in yoga and I thrive on helping women find their focus and purpose again in their daily life.

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