Jen Johnson

The Science of Stress: How It Affects Your Body Stress management techniques can help us to reduce stress and manage it effectively. Stress is a natural response designed to help us navigate challenges and threats. Known as the “fight or flight” or “freeze” response, it originates from our ancestors’ need to react quickly to danger. […]

Stress Reduction Techniques You Can Use Every Day In today’s fast-paced world, stress often feels unavoidable, so we need easy stress reduction techniques to maintain balance and wellbeing. Deadlines, responsibilities, and constant connectivity leave many of us feeling overwhelmed. But the good news is that we improve our capacity to cope with several simple stress […]

Resilience quotes and words of wisdom on resilience to help you keep you cultivate and maintain a calm body, compassionate heart, and steady mind during difficult times. Resilience is the capacity to recover from difficult times and to face future difficulty with a greater sense of ease. Here’s to facing the hard days with greater […]

Journaling Grief Journaling grief can help you to make order from the internal chaos that comes with loss. This is a therapeutic writing practice that can support you in healing from loss. Sometimes it’s easier to write about grief than to talk about it. Sometimes it’s hard to find someone who can really listen.  Journaling […]

Acceptance of Loss Healing grief through acceptance of loss does not always come easily. Human beings are averse to unpleasantness, and when we first learn of a significant loss, we may encounter shock and denial. I recall when I was 25 years old, arriving home from a Friday night out with friends. My roommate met […]

Grief Quotes Grief quotes to open your heart and soothe your sou To heal is to touch with love that which we previously touched with fear. — Stephen Levine  Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break. ― William Shakespeare Wanting things to be otherwise […]

Loving-kindness meditation is an ancient practice that has been shown to improve our relationships, reduce stress, and even boost happiness. This article will guide you in practicing loving-kindness meditation. Cultivation of loving-kindness is a significant aspect of mindfulness practice. The Pali word for loving-kindness is metta, which means acting with compassion toward all sentient beings […]