Category: Compassion

  • Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice Focus Switching This powerful practice can train our ability to switch our focus and discover which type of mindful focal point works best for us. Here’s how! Notice a niggle or (physical) pain in your body or an uncomfortable emotion you are experiencing, or…

  • Welcome March

    The focus of this month is to guard against stress and overwhelm. Visit the happiness tip each day to see how it resonates with you and can uplift to your health and well-being.

  • Happy Self-Love Day

    Happy Self-Love Day

    If you are single (like me) and want to do something or go somewhere tonight to be around other singles, join a sweat session or a calmer mind-body practice at your local fitness center. Or, join me for a Peloton class (LB name: LuthiR)! Valentine’s Day (or “Hallmark Day”) is not only a day for…

  • Welcome February

    This month, spread love in your corner of the world.

  • Therapy Thursday

    Kristin McGee shared this Dear Abby column in her newsletter this week. Like Kristin, my Grandma also read Dear Abby’s column and I remember my Grandma (and Mom) sharing Dear Abby’s insightful words with me during my childhood. As we move forward into 2025, we need to treat our bodies (and minds) with loving kindness…

  • Welcome January. Happy 2025!

    This month, start the year with kindness, to others and yourself.

  • Learn from the Past. Embrace the Future. Live in the Present.

    Learn from the Past. Embrace the Future. Live in the Present.

    Learn from your mistakes and struggles in 2024. Make 2025 a Year of Resiliency and Growth. Shift any Fixed Mindset tendencies to that of a Growth Mindset.   How to make a New Year’s Resolution that sticks? Make a Self-Compassion Meta-Resolution.  Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can…

  • Make Christmas Special for You

    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 instead of the ham everyone else always eats, whatever it is, just do what makes you truly happy. — A. Pawlowski Which tree are you this season? I am a little bit of…

  • Welcome December

    This month, discover peaceful moments together with friends and family.

  • Mindful Monday

    Mindful Monday

    Hear to be Heard Do you have trouble getting your point across at times? It can take two to tangle. Try acknowledging the other person’s feelings first, even if you disagree with his or her stance. What can you do to suspend your judgment and listen to understand?             Reference Woo, J. (2023).…