I have always loved journaling as a way to get in touch with thoughts and feelings. It is a much better way to cope with uncomfortable feelings than keeping them bottled up. Writing out our thoughts can be very therapeutic and it can also be a great way to be able to see change.
What gets in the way of change? So often it is the perceived obstacles, the excuses, limiting beliefs, or simply the Yeah Buts. What Are Your Yeah Buts? When you think about changing something in your life and what that entails, what gets in the way of actually doing it? what stops you? Pay attention
If you are lighting a scented candle, using lotions with fragrance, body spray, have potpourri in your home, those are all forms of aromatherapy. Our sense of smell is one of our most powerful senses. A smell can take you back to a place in the past and bring up a wonderful memory or it
Thinking positive doesn’t mean just pretending everything is okay when you know it’s not. It is not just avoiding or ignoring problems in your life. Thinking positive allows you to take a step back and see what is right about a situation and this puts you in a place of empowerment. If you can distance
Are you allowing your thoughts to run your life or are you intentionally creating your life and your thoughts. Our programming starts at a very young age, not only do we pick up on the words, the beliefs of the people that we are around when we are small, we also start to develop our
I am always on the lookout for new healing therapies. I love Emotional Freedom Techniques and it is the modality that put me on the path towards more holistic alternative therapies, but not everyone is interested in it. I have also found that not all of my clients feel relief after tapping. Granted there could
I get it. Sometimes it seems counter-intuitive to sit in lotus pose with eyes shut when there are 800 other things you could be doing. I hope to help you understand the importance of fitting a daily practice into your day. When I work with others there are always skills and strategies that need to
BEFORE YOU START CHECK YOUR SUDS LEVEL – SUDs stands for Subjective Units of Distress. If you check in with how high you are on the scale of 0 to 10, with 0 being not at all distressed to 10 being the highest level of distress, you now have an objective way of measuring change.
Is Self-Care Eluding You? How are you at taking care of yourself? You may know that you are lacking in this area or you may think you do take care of your needs. You may not realize that the level of care you give yourself is far less than optimal, and may even tip the
To me it seems like it should be common sense that our outer world affects our inner world. Just think about it, if your home is filled with clutter, is dark, too cold, too hot, too loud, smells funny, this can all create stress. The truth is we get used to things as our normal