Listen To Your Body

There isn’t an American alive today whose life hasn’t been touched by machines. And while technology advances our society, pushing human ingenuity to heights never before dreamed of, our immersion into life with machines cripples us as much as it aids us.  Think about how much we are surrounded every day by machines that turn …

You Are Not Alone

The road to recovery can feel lonely. Here you are in therapy, avoiding triggers, your mind is probably consumed all day, every day with just trying to get through the day. Meanwhile your friends and family are going about their lives like nothing’s changed. Because for them, nothing has. All the change is occurring with …

Learn To Laugh

Laughter is the best medicine. Cliché but true.  Recovery is a serious time with a bundle of deep emotions rising to the surface. You’re probably dealing with anxiety or depression or both. You’re figuring out your negative beliefs and where they came from. You’re struggling and stumbling just to get through the day. And it …

Mindful Minutes

The saying goes, “you can’t teach an old dog new tricks,” but it’s time we threw that out with the trash and a whole lot of other limiting beliefs holding us back. It is true that the older we get and the more conditioned we are to react to life in our negative way, the …

Super Simple Grounding Techniques

Meditation is a daily practice, that when done while calm will help in the long term with anxiety and depression. But, at the beginning of the road, when moving from one minute to the next, short term solutions to difficult emotions are necessary.  When the anxiety begins to spiral, sitting with your eyes closed trying …

Choose To Embrace

Acceptance becomes easier with time and practice. But, how do you practice acceptance? Through meditation. And in meditation, choosing not to change your situation.  Sit with your eyes closed—or open and softly fix your gaze on a spot in front of you—and become aware of your breathing. Take a few deep belly breaths and remind …

Give Yourself Time

If acceptance were as easy as saying, “I accept this,” then we’d have a lot less problems in life. Acceptance doesn’t always come because we want it to. The truth is, we have a natural instinct to resist anything that makes us uncomfortable and is painful.  The resistance often makes whatever we’re fighting against fight …

Walk In Meditation

Seated meditation isn’t for everyone. For some who sit at a desk 40 hours a week, more sitting isn’t the answer. For others, due to physical limitations or sensory processing or ADHD struggles, sitting isn’t relaxing, it can be downright painful. If this is the case for you, then don’t sit. Walk. Find a space—this …

Super Simple Intro To Meditation

Only when we stop running from our feelings can we feel the hole close and begin to live a whole life. But, trying to cope with emotions while they are high is like being thrown into the deep end of the pool when we don’t know how to swim. Can you eventually learn to swim …

Awareness

We see in all the colors of the rainbow, and yet we tend to think in black and white. Up, down. Cold, hot. Good, bad. Love, hate. Empty, full. Yet, all these opposites have middle grounds. Think of the canopy of the rainforest. It is up from all the creatures who dwell on the ground, …