Train for Life

Category: Trust

  • 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).…

  • Welcome May

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  • Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice Connect A safe and warm connection with someone you trust provides co-regulation; you can ‘borrow’ their calm. When you are stuck in a rut and feeling down or blue you might notice that you withdraw from others. You may find that you isolate yourself…

  • Welcome April

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  • Welcome March

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  • Welcome February

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  • Therapy Thursday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice Boundary Sensing For this exercise, you will need to find three (3) objects: an object you love (a ‘yes’ object), an object that you feel neutral about, and an object that you strongly dislike or that disgusts you (a ‘no’ object). For example, you might…

  • Welcome November

    This month, look for small things to appreciate.

  • Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice Letting Go We hold on to all kinds of things in life: people, old habits, emotions, resentment, limiting beliefs, relationships… We really want to just ‘get over it’ or ‘let it go’ but it is hard than we thought.  This practice can help demonstrate…