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Fibromyalgia is the body’s accumulated response to deep emotional trauma that hasn’t been adequately acknowledged by self and others. The range of symptoms are a call for help from a tender part of a person that doesn’t know how...
A highly Sensitive, Perceptive, or Intuitive person may be aware of energy, sound, color - just about anything - in a way most others are not. But it's not always easy to be such a person or to love...
A yoga practice connects awareness of the breath with specific poses (asanas), whose energetic effects bring harmony and union to the whole being. That includes body, mind, spirit, and emotions. This article will give you tips and awareness for...
Our hips are our biggest joints and a critical portal for energy flow throughout the body. They express joy - or the lack of it. Hips are designed to move in all planes, in all directions and one of the...
Self-care can be a juggling act - balancing the demands of loved ones, work, and a household. What do you do when you see no opening for quiet time? Take a deep breath and start small. Each opening creates...
Depression and sadness can hit any time but many of us are especially susceptible to it during the winter - and that can be a good thing. Here's how to welcome it for a better holiday season, winter, or any time you're down.
What if today you were just grateful? Cultivate gratitude by thinking of something you feel grateful for, and then breathe into that feeling to amplify it. It's a practice that only works when you feel it - in your heart,...
We all need healthy ways to grieve or commemorate loss. Ceremony helps ease grief and helps us move on. Here are Ideas, questions, and an action list for what to do to commemorate a loved one, celebrate a life,...
Caring for your aging body is easier with a loving attitude toward It. Here's how to flip the script on negative messages about aging, make the most of what your body knows and can do, and celebrate how marvelous...
Whether you are a yoga instructor or have practiced yoga for some time, you have witnessed both tears and laughter as people move and stretch through the postures. Here's how to help yourself and others breathe into emotions that...
Whether it’s holding space for growing, healing, or dying, the gesture and dynamics are the same: open arms, invitation, non-judgment, safe boundaries, and Love. Discussion of how to hold healing space well and what happens when it isn't done...
As adults, many of us have gotten too serious and stopped playing. If you need an invitation to play, laugh, tell jokes, and get silly - this is it! Links to scholarly articles, a TED talk on play, and...
The future of healing will revolve around gut health, human connection, a conscious turn inward to slow down and listen to the body. It also includes a conscious respect for and partnership with the intelligence of natural processes. This...
You are born to love and be loved! Even if your parent(s) didn't show you the love, support, and understanding you needed, you can give those to yourself now. Love is your birthright and sometimes you come to love most...
How do you get to a positive attitude about your body if you're not already there? Here's a body appreciation exercise to help you wherever you've bought into any messages that you aren't beautiful enough or your body isn't...
A woman's issues with her husband traces back to issues with her father. This story illustrates how we often choose partners who reflect dynamics with our parents and gives insights about how to understand and heal from old wounds.
Grieving a mother is often rough. I want to share a hug with everyone whose mother has died in the past year, everyone whose mother will die this coming year, and everyone who feels like a motherless child. (You...
I rested my hands on his shoulders to listen more closely. I felt crystalline tears stuck in the muscles. This strong man hadn't cried since he was 16, when his parents divorced. Of course he had unexpressed sadness, anger...
As you watch the video, feel your heart open and reach toward this sincere, open little being as she connects with her mother's emotions. This is what unarmored looks like. Babies open our hearts and remind us how to...
Touch is a powerful human catalyst. Everyone has unexpressed emotion and a spa treatment or massage can provide the opportunity to release it. Many practitioners aren't trained to handle emotions release in a treatment session so here are tips...
7 Tips for conscious eating. Here are some practices to start building now for those times when your emotions get the best of you and your eating spirals out of your conscious control. The trick is to do these...
Are you addicted to sugar? It's a hard habit to break, but it's possible with these steps over time. Make gradual changes that you can sustain and build on. Support yourself by having healthy food available, prepared ahead of time. Emotional eating may be part of the problem.
What do you do when you know you've behaved badly in a relationship and you want to repair the damage? Taking sister relationships as an example, we explore when things go wrong and how to find forgiveness, apologize and...
If your parents made you finish everything on your plate or you've been dieting much of your life, you learned to eat to external cues. The pattern ends as we unhook from the external cues and tune in to...
Our social reliance on sugar in the form of alcohol, processed food, soda, and quick, cheap carbs isn’t healthy. It’s normal only because it has become the norm. The social cost of eating better is worth it. As you...
In our fast-paced lives, it's normal to feel overloaded or overwhelmed. With all the things you do and think in a day, where's the room to reset and recover? This is a reminder, permission, and tips to take care...
Your Smile can make someone's day. Don't forget the power a smile has to change your mood or someone else's. When love shines through your smile, it is a gift. Be more generous with this free, easy way to...
This emotional release guide for professionals in a spa or clinical gives practical tips and awareness for how to handle tears, anger, or other emotions that come up in hands-on sessions. Spontaneous emotions are natural but can disrupt your...
We all have unwanted emotions leftover from past trauma. We shut away those "monsters" and they accumulate in our "emotional closet" until we shed light on them with love and understanding. There are healthier ways to deal with them....
How can you eat consciously when you're upset, angry, sad, or lonely? Because we have to eat to live, it can be tricky keeping our needs and our desires in balance. Eating patterns can get tangled up with our emotional needs. Tips to handle emotional eating habits.