Train for Life

Tag: Self-Love

  • Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice Heel Drops This practice relieves stress and anxiety by calming your nervous system while connecting you to the earth and your body. Here’s how! Begin standing, and allow your eyes to defocus. Rise up onto your toes and then let yourself thud back down to…

  • Welcome January

    This month, focus on what matters to you.

  • Happy New Year

    As we step into 2026, try making a New Year resolution to be a “compassionate mess”. This means that instead of focusing on getting it right, we focus on opening our hearts. It is important to try to alleviate our suffering by making needed changes in our lives. However, we can also fail over and…

  • 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 (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?…

  • Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice Containment Hug A containment hug (or safety hug) has so many benefits! To name a few: it provides calming proprioceptive input; it anchors us in the present moment; it builds a compassionate connection with our body; it feels like a loving hug. Here’s how!…

  • Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice Finger Taps Bilateral stimulation can help us process emotions and memories by activating both hemispheres of our brain. It can also help us center our focus, providing a gentle way to stay grounded and connected to our body. Last week’s post featured another form…

  • Wellness Wednesday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice Bilateral Stimulation Thigh Taps Thigh taps are a useful tool for when we are in a public space and feeling anxious, triggered, overwhelmed, or dissociated. No one will know what we are doing! It is especially easy to hide if we are sitting at a…

  • 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 Ear 👂🏻Massage We can create a beautiful sense of calm by massaging our ear. This is an effective way to activate our vagus nerve and turn on our parasympathetic nervous system. This simple technique can be practiced discreetly. We may notice signs of release such…

  • 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…