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Leaky Gut: How to Restore Your Gut and Improve Your Mental Health
All the Cool Kids Get My Weekly Emails… Be the first to know about new content, Feminist Wellness Retreats, Online Courses, bonus material and so much more! So one of the things that I’m really excited about in this world is healing the gut and healing mental health. In this blog we’ll be focusing on…
Read MoreFailure: How and Why to Fail on Purpose
One of the things that comes up in breathwork often is that folks are scared to do it wrong, to fail at it and therefore be a failure. In the context of breathwork, of energy work, healing work, I’ll say there’s no way to fail or to do it wrong. Just by showing up for…
Read MoreAction: Why You Do the Things You Do
Think, feel, act. It’s what we do as humans. Once you really understand this cycle, you can use this tool, think-feel-act, to not only understand why you do what you do, but to get in touch with the thoughts and feelings that lead you to take action for your own life. If you want: More…
Read MoreFeeling Your Feels: Listen to Your Body
It is vital, grounding, and empowering for us to feel our feelings in our bodies. A feeling is an emotional state, a reaction. In the thought work protocol we use, we recognize that our thoughts create our feelings, and we work with each feeling as a single word. Bored, angry, frustrated, happy, calm, peaceful, annoyed,…
Read MoreHow to Bring Awareness to Your Thoughts
The thought work protocol is how we put the think-feel-act cycle into action to change our lives. The think-feel-act cycle is based in neuroscience, cognitive behavioral and somatic theories. This protocol is applicable to literally everything in this beautiful life and has been a vital part of my healing my mind, body, and spirit. Once you…
Read MoreBe Your Own Watcher
Mindfulness is about getting present to what is and accepting life on life’s terms. It’s about getting in touch with ourselves and the world around us in new and deeper ways. And it’s about creating cognitive distance between ourselves and our thoughts. This lets us ask the simple question, does this thought I’m having serve…
Read MoreSelf-Care: Why Your Intentions Matter
Take a break. You deserve it. While yes, you deserve self-care, every creature does, the commodification of it often leaves us with some confused messages and understanding, and a propensity to beat ourselves up for not doing all of the things. Self-care is all the rage these days. I’m a huge proponent of you learning…
Read MoreDirect and Indirect Communication
What does it mean to communicate directly versus indirectly? When we have clarity on what we want and need, we open up space to communicate directly. Saying what we mean and meaning what we say. This can be super challenging if we were raised with a lot of indirect or sideways communication. We can now…
Read MoreHow We Communicate with Ourselves
How we communicate with ourselves encompasses how we talk to ourselves, how we treat ourselves, and the images we display to ourselves. These are all modes of communication with an inward focus. I used to have an old cassette tape in my head that said I was always on the verge of being in trouble. As…
Read MoreCommunication-Tips for How to Shift Yours
Most of us have found ourselves in that uh-oh moment when we realize we didn’t quite get our point across clearly. We’ve been misunderstood or haven’t communicated what we wanted to, or how we wanted to. For some of us, this communication mishap can be a daily occurrence. Our thoughts about how these communications go…
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