“This food plan isn’t working for me.”
“This treatment has done absolutely nothing.”
“I thought I’d be feeling better by now. This is a failure.”
Do these “failures” sound familiar?
Healing can be so hard. And can take so long.
What if you’re working hard? To recover your energy and wellbeing? To get your life back? And you still struggle?
Have you failed? Is your healing strategy a…
What are the best solutions when life gets tough?
Stop our lives? Hang out on the mountain top? Get a divorce? Find a new job? Send the kids to boarding school?
Hmmm… sounds tempting, doesn’t it?
Yah, I want to get rid of the friction too sometimes.
I want to go straight to the bliss.
But what if I told you we thrive the most when we’re challenged? That we figure things out and grow our…
We get the truth of body-mind-spirit integration, don’t we?
But in our rush to get to the bliss and awe we forget about the work we have to do first. Right?
I think it starts with the body.
Maybe it’s just me, but when I don’t eat well, or skimp on sleep, or slack off—or push myself mercilessly—it’s hard to access bliss and awe.
That comes with the discipline and vigilance of self-care.
When I…
Yah, I know, I know, Word and Google don’t like “feet-brain” connection. They insist on “foot-brain” connection!
But they’re wrong.
It’s not foot. Not for most of us. It’s feet. We have two feet and our brain relates to two feet. I stand firm. Feet-brain connection it is!
The best way to strengthen and enliven your feet, and increase the sensory information they send your brain to support you,…
Did you know that our feet give rise to nearly half of all sensory information transmitted to our brains?
Wow.
And this feet-to-brain relationship leads to powerful things (that make us powerful), like:
That’s right. Our feet strengthen us in our center. When activated, the feet-brain connection has the…
What if we think about self-care like this?
It doesn’t make us better. Not better versions of our selves. Not better than anyone else.
We may feel better, we may function at a higher level, we may experience life in a whole new and vibrant way, but we—who we truly are—was there all along.
Those savvy food plans and vigorous exercise regimens don’t make us stronger or more beautiful.
The…
Trust your body–it will never lie or judge you.
Have you struggled in your relationship with your body—like me?
I used to be completely disconnected from mine. I thought my mind was in the control seat and my body was just my servant—to submit to my absolute authority. I ignored it, pushed it, abused it, and rejected it, not knowing it was the source of who I was, the answers to all my…
I love how Life School shows up wherever I happen to be—like at the gym the other day.
My trainer caught me “cheating” on my prescribed workout. I was working on chin-ups and dropped to a smaller band (less support for hoisting my upper body over the bar). I defended my actions by explaining that the larger band was “too easy,” I wanted more of a challenge.
Knowing me, and my tendency to cheat…
What to do with the gnawing discomfort and prickly, excessive energy of anxiety? My go-to strategies are walks, hard work outs, doing chores, writing, weed pulling, filling the bird feeders… something to engage my body and my whole attention to the task.
This strategy of getting into my body is curiously calming and soothing, and often steers me toward…
Making this world a better place starts with each of us–with how we care for ourselves.
Many of us feel the immediacy of the need to save our world and our planet. We want to be part of the change, of the resistance, of the solutions that are most needed right now.
And yet, it can feel overwhelming. Where do we start? What will pack the greatest punch? How can each of us, individually, best…
Is there something in your life that needs to change? To heal? Your body is probably telling you about it right now. We can learn to decipher our body’s wisdom.
I’ve ignored my body’s wisdom–the persistently aching shoulder reminding me to hug into myself (rather than extending out to others all the time), the gnawing discomfort in my gut telling me about that toxic person who needed a boot…
The term was coined by New Zealand physiotherapist, Steve August, to describe what we all look like hunched over our electronic devices.
You know what I’m talking about. It’s how everyone looks these days whether seated or walking along, phone out, head and upper torso leaning into the screen. Hooked!
ihunch is responsible for an…
I started running as a teenager, inspired by the notion that I could replace bad habits with something more positive and possibly good for me. It was awful at first and I hated it, but I’m stubborn. So I started with one block, then two, gradually, painstakingly increasing my distance. It was not fun but I was intrigued as I felt just a flash or ripple of empowerment when I accomplished the…