Category: Mindfulness

Self-Compassion: Six Ways to Practice Showing Up For Yourself

6/10/2022

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Self-Compassion Helped Me Survive

It was during my daughter’s cancer treatment that I had a lot of practice being there for myself. We stayed in the hospital for seven months, and everyday I lived in terror that she might not make it. My number one priority was to be there for her, but in order to do that, I had to function alongside many intense and overwhelming emotions.

Accepting Your Inner Critic

4/29/2022

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Help Your Inner Critic Relax

Having an activated inner critic—a voice that’s constantly telling us all the ways in which we aren’t good enough or how we should be different—sucks. It’s painful and usually goes hand-in-hand with guilt, anxiety, and low self-esteem. So, it’s completely normal to wish your inner critic would just disappear.

Invite Your Emotions in For Tea

4/15/2022

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Turning Toward Our Emotions

As with any aspect of life, when we don’t understand something it can feel intimidating and scary. The same goes for our inner selves and our emotions. Most people fear their emotions. Fear the intensity of them. Fear what they may do when they’re feeling them.

Anger: The Canary in the Coal Mine

4/8/2022

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Anger as a Wise Messenger

Out of all the emotions, anger might be the most demonized and misunderstood. But anger is a wise messenger that has a very specific purpose. Anger is our body’s way of telling us that something isn’t right. That something needs to change (even if the factor that needs to adjust in the situation is us). Often it’s trying to tell us that a boundary has been crossed. Sometimes it’s letting us know that there are other emotions in our system that need our attention—it’s common for us to discover that under anger is a deep well of unacknowledged disappointment, sadness, or grief.

Working Mindfully with "Shoulds"

3/18/2022

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Embracing the Shoulds

I think it was one of my professors in graduate school that said “stop ‘shoulding’ all over yourself.” Hearing this was revolutionary for me, because at that time I hadn’t realized how much and how often I was “shoulding” on myself. It was a lot. Like, pretty much all the time. And often when I’d tell myself I should be doing XYZ, I didn’t end up actually doing the thing I was telling myself that I should do, I just felt guilty or ashamed for not being the way that I thought I should be.

Befriending Our Emotions: The Road to Self-Trust

3/4/2022

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Fear of Emotions

Most of us didn’t grow up learning how to relate to our emotions. In fact, most of us didn’t grow up talking much about our emotions at all. But that doesn’t mean we didn’t learn lessons about them. We learned plenty of lessons. Most of them just weren’t consciously or intentionally imparted upon us, and like most things that aren’t consciously and intentionally chosen, the messages we received were shaped by unexamined baggage.

Mindfulness Meditation 101: You can meditate. Yes, you!

11/26/2021

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What is Mindfulness?

Mindfulness is a huge buzzword nowadays. Pretty much everywhere you look people are talking about it, especially in the mental health and wellness communities. But what is mindfulness?

Mindfulness is very simple really. It is awareness of the present moment with acceptance. Mindfulness is a practice of turning our attention inward with an attitude of open curiosity toward what we may find.

Healing Inner Child Wounds

9/9/2019

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The Role of Self-Awareness in Healing the Inner Child

The very first step to healing anything is awareness. So believe it or not, just reading about inner child healing and other self-help concepts online, and having light bulb moments about what you resonate with, is an important and impactful step toward healing inner child wounds.