Category: Emotional Intelligence

  • Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice Butterfly Calm and release tricky emotions while unlocking our hips, where so many emotions can become stuck. Here’s how! Sit on the floor and bring the soles of your feet together. Allow your knees to fall out to the sides. You may slide two…

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  • Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice Legs Up The Wall All you need for this practice is a wall and your beautiful body! The benefits of this practice include: calming our mind and nervous system; supporting our lymphatic system and circulation; slowing our breathing; improving digestion; easing back aches; and…

  • Therapy Thursday

    Therapy Thursday

    Mindful Walks With the Summer months in bloom, what better time to escape outside for a walk! Walking (even a short 5-minute walk) can calm your nervous system. You can focus on your footfalls and the feeling of the ground beneath you. You can get unstuck and reduce stress.  If you cannot get outside, walking…

  • Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice Cat Cow This beautiful movement deepens our connection to our body, syncing with our breath for emotional balance.  Here’s how! Come to an all fours or table-top position, with your hands and knees on the floor. Align your hands under your shoulders and your knees…

  • Mindful Monday

    Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice 🧘‍♀️🫁Weighted Belly Breathing🫁🧘‍♀️ This deep breathing technique can calm us by slowing our breath and providing proprioceptive input.  Here’s how! Find an object to place on your belly such as, a wheat bag, a hot-water bottle, a heavy (weighted) blanket, or a book. Life…

  • Welcome June

    Focus on finding your power this morning. What gives you (physical and mental) strength to overcome some of life’s biggest challenges?

  • Mindful Monday

    Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice 🫨Somatic Shaking 🫨 When we experience a shock, upset or trauma, one of the body’s natural responses is to shake. This motion can help release energy, which ‘completes’ the stress response and regulates the nervous system. Intentional shaking can dissolve stress and move the nervous…

  • Mindful Monday

    Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice 😊Face Massage😊  The muscles in our face can hold a lot of tension, especially around our forehead and eyes and in our jaw. We can try to soften our expression and find time for some self-love with this practice. *Tip: Apply some face oil…

  • Mindful Monday

    Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice 👀 Peripheral Vision 👀 When we feel anxious or panicked we may find our vision changes. It might be difficult to make eye contact or our eyes might scan around in search of threats. Try these practices to send cues of safety by engaging…