Posts Tagged ‘anxiety’
Six Surprising Codependent Habits
I lived the first 30 years or so of my life rolling around in codependent thought patterns and habits, until I realized how deeply this way of thinking and showing up in the world had seeped into my mind, into my thoughts and feelings, leading me to act in ways that I now see as…
Read MoreFuture Self Planning
One of the lessons that has been life-changing for me comes from cognitive-behavioral science. It’s that we have thoughts based on our history, our experiences, our socialization, our fears, worries, and our thoughts create our feelings. We take action based on our feelings and those actions create our lived experience in this world. It is…
Read MoreFatigue – Adrenal Edition
Our world has changed in amazing and disruptive ways in the last 20 years. The advent of cell phones and blue screens in every room has led to information and sensory overload. We’re eating more food-like products that are leading to more and more inflammation. Our bodies haven’t evolved to manage how much we’re being…
Read MoreWhat Other People Think of You Is None of Your Business
Our human brains love to judge. There’s a part that’s evolutionary, we had to decide, often very quickly, if the person or animal in front of us was a threat or not. So we’re wired, in a way, to make these split-second decisions for our own protection. Luckily, most of us no longer live in…
Read MoreBoundaries
So many of us are giving our energy away to people and things that don’t serve us. We only have so much energy for each day and when we give it away or let it leak out of us by not taking care of ourselves first, we often don’t have anything left for ourselves. There’s…
Read MoreLeaky 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 MoreHow to Conquer Anxiety
Anxiety is an exhausting life-stealer. It can feel like a wall between you, the people you love, and the life you want to live. It doesn’t have to be that way. In this article, I’ll explain the science of anxiety and what’s happening in your brain when you feel that rush of tension in your…
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 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 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…
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