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Welcome January
This month, focus on what matters to you.
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Make Christmas Special for You
Merry Christmas from my heart to yours! Spend the holidays the way YOU want to. If that means not going home, or eating pizza (or a vegetable frittata) instead of the ham (or turkey) everyone else always eats, whatever it is, just do what makes you truly happy. — A. Pawlowski Which tree are you this season?…
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Mindful Monday
How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice Healing Breath Take a comfortable seat and get ready to learn this beautiful breath practice to compassionately connect with your body, process emotions, and dissolve pain and tension. Here’s how! Close your eyes or lower your gaze and take a scan through your body.…
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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…
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Wellness Wednesday
How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice Somatic Sensations In order to process emotions and regulate our nervous system we need to be connected to our body. This means: noticing the sensations we are experiencing; describing and sitting with them as their witness; and breathing into them and allowing them to pass…
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Welcome December
This month, focus on seeking out joy together.
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Welcome November
This month, look for small things to appreciate.
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Mindful Monday
This week’s calming practice in The River of Mind. Let’s imagine our mind is a river and we are sitting on the riverbank.
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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…
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Mindful Monday
How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice Vagus Nerve Exercise This tool helps to activate our vagus nerve, bringing us back to a calm ventral vagal state. We might notice signs of release such as, a deep sigh or swallow, a yawn, a general feeling of calm or our tummy gurgling. Here’s…
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