How’s your mental wellness? It’s November, I’ve noticed that moods are leaning a bit more toward grey and blue. We are tired, and we are tired of it. Pandemic fatigue is a real thing, and in spite of our hopes that things would be better, the pandemic has again worsened this month. How do we […]
If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. –Maya Angelou We stop growing when we stop believing that change is possible. When I was in my early twenties, I became frustrated with photography. The image that I saw in nature was not the image that came out on film. […]
Mindful writing for healing from trauma is a powerful practice to support wellbeing. I have loved writing for as long as I can remember. I’ve been practicing mindful writing for transformation with committed regularity since my mid-thirties following my aging mother’s relapse with addiction, near death by suicide, and eventual death from cancer. Mindfulness and writing […]
Our tendency as a culture is to avoid silence, to run from it, and essentially we end up running from ourselves. We run from what most needs our attention, and we turn to compulsive busyness, eating too much, spending too much, spending too much time on Facebook, drinking too much, etc. We can learn to […]
Creativity blocks come disguised in many forms. Difficult emotions can be powerful creativity blocks. I awakened this morning feeling angry about a situation that occurred yesterday in which my limits were not respected. As the day began, the anger became a distraction, and the prospect of generating any creative energy today seemed bleak. A writer or […]
Trusting yourself often feels difficult following experiences of stress, illness, loss, or trauma. Practicing mindfulness can support you in gradually trusting yourself again. Mindfulness practice allows you to gradually reconnect with awareness of your own sensations, feelings, and thoughts as you learn to listen inside to yourself again. Making time and space for stillness allows […]
One of the things I’ve heard most frequently during the past few months is, “I haven’t been practicing meditation. I got off track.” Stressful times and changes in routine can easily pull us out of our mindfulness practice and self-care routines. I offer meditation guidance for helping folks to get back on track to restart […]
Are you embracing a sense of creative aliveness in your life? I’ve just completed one creative project and am about to undertake the next. These in between places are always times of reassessing for me. I’m forever tweaking things, trying to stay aligned with my passions and engaging in creative work that feels meaningful. I’ve […]
Learning how to reduce stress can benefit all of us during times like these. It seems that a lot of us are encountering a new layer of stress as in North America we’re now six months in with the viral pandemic as we face ongoing additional forms of upheaval that keep us in a state […]
Finding peace in a chaotic world, may feel impossible, but it’s not. Here we are in the U.S. nearly six months in with this pandemic and longer in other parts of the world. Many of us have experienced layers of loss and stress. I’m listening with an open heart to students, clients, and friends who […]