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Sing with me… “Jingle bells, jingle bells! COVID smells, 2020 was a rotten egg. Oh, what fun it was to hide, all year, every day, EY!” Someone needs to get on creating a holiday jingle for 2020… This year will go down in the history books. Nothing about it was “normal.” Nothing felt simple or […]
I can trace my first introduction to the practice of Yoga back to the now defunct teen magazine called Jump: For Girls Who Dare To Be Real. Each edition had a page that highlighted a specific pose with a pleasant illustration, a description of how to practice the pose, and most importantly, how to cultivate […]
This year has been a wild ride. In early January, like many of us, I thought: “2020 doesn’t know what’s coming for her! A new decade, with new intentions, new goals, and new adventures”. Well, 2020 had other plans. When Covid hit, I found out that my partner, a physician, was needed on the frontlines […]
I’m not going to lie, the past two weeks have been nothing short of rough. There’s a heaviness in the air—an eerie feeling in the streets—and pangs of uncertainty for the future and for the losses we are all enduring right now. As a business owner and therapist, you think first and foremost for the […]
Self-care – it’s something we often overlook during the hustle and bustle of our busy lives. However, in order to nurture the health of our mind, body, and soul, we need ways to promote well-being and reduce stress. The thing about practicing self-care is that you intentionally need to make time and space for it. […]
The pace of our modern lives can often feel uncompromising. Time reserved for yourself is either viewed as a luxury or as something stumbled upon by accident, only to be savored in small doses. Society has long demanded that we march to the beat of an eternal drum—through illness, despite heartache, against the waning energy […]
“Find your center.” We hear these words both on and off our yoga mats. But what does it mean? And how can we apply it to our lives? First, we can look to the mind. Our mind is just one of many tools we carry within ourselves, but it has a reputation of pushing us […]
By: Melissa Hale Winter months are my favorite time of year, but it hasn’t always been so. As we approach the peak of darkness, the Winter Solstice on December 21, there is a natural desire to turn inwards, to become still and to sleep. This is nature’s way of taking pause after a productive spring, […]
By Natalie Russell It is so easy to be wrecked with, rarely do we extend ourselves the conviction that we are a force that can wreck. In moments when we feel intensely, we label ourselves as reckless. We start to fear ourselves. We start to fear feeling. The moment that fear begins to creep in […]
She grew up without a mother. A deep void that led her to seek “mother” in almost anyone or anything that comforted. Further forms of loss would trigger her most familiar wound. If you didn’t know her history and all that she had been through, you couldn’t understand the way she responded to pain or […]