Train for Life

Category: Grief

  • Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice Post-its Post-it Notes are a nifty hack that can have a powerful impact on your ability to create and stick to new habits. How often do you learn a new tool that you swear you are going to start using, only to realize days later…

  • Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice 5, 5 or 5 Tool The 5, 5 or 5 tool helps with procrastination and overwhelm and can kick-start your motivation. Which 5 will you choose? 5 Seconds When you think about a positive behavior, take action within five (5) seconds. Have the idea to…

  • Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice Burrito Wrap This tool provides comforting proprioceptive input to calm your senses and soothe the nervous system to restore balance and peace. Here’s how! Grab a cozy blanket or a weighted blanket to feel more grounded. Wrap the blanket around yourself, rolling yourself up like…

  • Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice Hot-Spot Scan ‘Hot spots’ are places in the body that hold anxiety, anger, and stress. If you hold tension in your body, the body sends a message to your brain that you are in danger, keeping you stuck in a stress-tension feedback loop and…

  • Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice Name Your Emotion Naming our emotions can be healing and helpful. It allows us to create space for how we feel while we are processing the emotion. Externalizing emotions can help to down-regulate the limbic system and amygdala (the emotion centers in the brain).…

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  • Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice Aroma Bombs Shake a couple of essential oil drops into the palm of your hands. Cup your hands together, making a little space between your thumbs for your nose. Take a lovely deep inhale of the aroma bomb. Try: Peppermint for when you are…

  • In Loving Memory… Always remembered.

    Cali, today marks one year since your kidney disease carried you over the rainbow bridge. Since that tearful day, there has not been one day that I do not miss you. I think about you and our many happy times together every day. While a two month old kitten joined your sister, Minimi and I…

  • Mindful Monday

    Mindful Monday

    Dear Emotion Write a letter to an emotion that you are having a hard time with or that you would like to have more of. Examples include, fear, grief, or happiness. Tell this emotion: Its current role in your life, how it has affected you, and your hope for its future role.        …

  • In Loving Memory

    Cali, my buddy, my side kick, my shadow… my best friend for 16.5 years. I miss you so much. You brought abundant joy, happiness, and unconditional love to my life especially when I needed it the most. You ‘just knew’ the times I was struggling, down, depressed, anxious, or scared, and reached out your paw (literally!).…