Category: Mindfulness
-
6 Ways to Instantly Take Your Power Back
Do you pay regular visits to yourself? – Rumi The Problem with Selflessness Do you often feel like you have over-extended yourself to please others? Or that you put the needs, wishes and feelings of others before your own? Does this make you feel resentful, frustrated, overwhelmed, or depleted? Do you feel disconnected…
-
10 Tips for Cultivating & Protecting Your Mental & Emotional Health
1.Say NO Before agreeing to everything under the sun, check in with how you’re feeling. Allow yourself to say no when you instinctively know or feel you have too much on your plate. And if you accidentally over-extend yourself, it is OK to change your mind, re-schedule, delegate, or have a conversation about how you…
-
This Key Component of Health Often Gets Overlooked
There is a ton of information out there about the latest diet and nutrition tips to achieve optimal health, but there is an important factor that impacts our energy levels, wellbeing, and creativity that often gets overlooked. The truth is (and there is ample research to back this up), we can have a beautiful diet…
-
The Best Ways to Stay Healthy and Happy During the Holidays (Holiday Challenge!)
Is taking care of yourself a priority during the holidays? Do you put your health and wellbeing on the back burner knowing that the new year is right around the corner? “If you don’t have 10-minutes for yourself, you don’t have a life!” – Tony Robbins I recently attended Unleash the Power Within with Tony…
-
How to Get More Pleasure Out of Life Without Getting Less Done
“First ecstasy, then the laundry.” – Zen Proverb Success to me is feeling excited when I wake up in the morning, feeling at home in my skin, and bringing my true self forth in my work and my relationships. But it’s also getting things done, moving my business forward, having my needs met and more,…
-
Try this Simple Yet Powerful Practice
When it’s dark enough you can see the stars. – Ancient Persian Proverb We live in a culture that values doing, that encourages us to define our self-worth by our productivity. Getting things done is important, it allows us to build the world we live in and create forward progress toward our goals, but it…
-
3 Unconventional Ways to Curb Emotional Eating
The subtle energy of our food becomes our mind. – The Upanishads I don’t believe in diets, I believe in knowing, loving and respecting ourselves. This means, developing a way of eating and a way of living that illuminates our true nature, keeps our inner world clear and clean, and feels sustainable forever. Most…
-
5 Simple Yoga Poses for Stress Relief
Stress can really drain you, but stress-relief is free and accessible to nearly anyone, anywhere with these 5 simple yoga poses . Doesn’t that take the edge off a little? Practicing yoga is a proven way to calm the nervous system: It can lower your blood pressure, provide relief for chronic back pain and even…
-
5 Ways to Beat Stress in Under 5 Minutes
With work, family, social and societal pressures surrounding us in our modern lives- who doesn’t get stressed? Allie and I spend a lot of time educating people on the effects of stress, and ways to alleviate it. We teach that the opposite of stress is resilience. When you learn healthy tools to cope with…
-
How to Uncover Your Healthiest Self in the New Year
We like to take a slightly different approach to New Year’s Resolutions. Rather than holding ourselves to unrealistic standards, as many resolutions around diet and lifestyle do (stop eating carbs, exercise everyday, quit sugar), we like to approach the New Year by developing a vision that excites and inspires us. When we articulate our vision, we…