With this blog, my hope is to share the insights I gather on my journey to help inspire you on yours.
creating healthy roots for personal growth and transformation
True emotional processing and transformation comes when we can find those faulty roots, dig them up, and then fill them with healthy strong roots founded in self-awareness and self-love. It takes time, effort, and support to learn how to process emotions and difficult experiences, especially the old ones. But this is what can make life so meaningful: constant growth and personal transformation.
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“But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires:
To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.
To know the pain of too much tenderness.
To be wounded by your own understanding of love;
And to bleed willingly and joyfully.
To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving;
To rest at the noon hour and meditate love’s ecstasy;
To return home at eventide with gratitude;
And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.”
~ Kahlil Gibran
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Get grounded, find your center.
Explorations on feeling grounded amidst change
Life is constant change. We are constantly moving and growing and changing. Every day is different. But sometimes it is much harder. During those major life shifts or transitions, when change feels particularly hard, we can completely lose our center. We forget what it means to feel grounded. We find ourselves having to pick up the pieces of normal life and figure out a way to move forward. But how do we do that? How do we rediscover our center and come back to that feeling of being grounded?
Read MoreIs there a practice or healthy lifestyle choice that you have been working on, which you would like to keep up during the holiday season? Are you worried that it will be difficult to maintain momentum through all the excitement and holiday traditions?
You are not alone. Changes in routine and the expectations of family and friends can be some of the biggest obstacles to sustaining a self-practice or lifestyle habits.
Read MoreI have been working to incorporate more stillness in my life. I have always appreciated the idea of stillness but I have hit up against a lot of internal resistance in the past when it comes to actually being still. But, now more than ever, my body has been telling me that I need to rest and be still. And I am listening. But change is hard. I have been so used to being in constant motion over the past 10+ years that it is hard to figure out how to slow down.
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Honoring the light and the darkness
Balance is not something we can reach at one point in time and maintain forever; rather it is something we find over time. Finding balance in our lives is not like measuring weighted scales where you can add a little of this, take out a little of that, and come up with perfectly even sides. Things change everyday – our bodies, our thoughts, the people around us, the world in motion. Even in yoga poses, we constantly move and adjust to stay in balance. As time goes on, our idea of balance changes. What once worked may not work in the future. What works in one part of our life might not work in another. Finding balance is an evolution of self. It takes patience and perseverance but the result is always powerful.
Tree pose in the jungle: Balancing amidst the movement of nature.
Now, however, I understand that self-care is not a luxury but, rather, an approach to day-to-day life. The approach of self-care is about taking the time to decide what will be best for your own health, wellness, and, ultimately, for your highest good. It is a mindset that says: my heath is important; my wellness is a priority. It is realizing that you are, without a doubt, your greatest resource.
Read MoreNegative self-talk is not motivating. It doesn’t help anyone to be negative. A lot of times people think that the negative self talk is good, that it keeps them on their game. But in truth, negativity only breeds more negativity. It creates a “less-than” mindset, a feeling that we are inherently invaluable and unworthy. It keeps us stuck in the ego, in the idea that we are separate.
Read MoreYoga is more than just asana. For some, it is a practice that permeates into our lives, relationships, and interactions with the world. And the experience of yoga evolves daily.
For me this week, yoga was settling into trust, not letting myself get tied up in stress or fear.
What was yoga like for you this week - how did you experience it; what did you learn from it?
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