Craving More: A Sign of Growth
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How to End Your Suffering
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The only person’s permission you need to do exactly what you want is your own.
Read MoreHow to Reclaim Your Power
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Let me be clear: Moving forward after trauma is very much an impulse from within. It’s not something directed by an outsider. It’s something inside that says, “I want to move on.” It may be a gentle or quiet impulse, and it’s all YOURS. Trauma leaves us feeling like we don’t have agency. Healing, then, gives agency back to us. And when we decide it’s time to respond, we take back our power.
Read MoreWhat to Do When Your World Has Been Turned Upside Down
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If we can learn to regulate our nervous systems, we can help our brains take rest (a mental savasana, if you will) and touch that indestructible, ever-calm inner wisdom that literally creates worlds. And from there, we’ll know a peace that never ends.
Read MoreKeep Calm in Chaos: Get Moving
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Exercise is the human version of a release valve on a pressure cooker. You’ve got to let the energy go before you explode from the inside out!
Read MorePracticing Yoga and Meditation at Home
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If you’ve been thinking about doing yoga or meditation, now is probably a good time to get started. I’ve received a ton of comments from my friends and students that their anxiety has gone through the roof because of the coronavirus. Since studios are closing in the interest of public health, there is an abundance of opportunity to start a home based yoga and meditation practice. A lot of us have moved our classes online because we get it: you need your yoga!
Read MorePro Tip: What to Do When You're Afraid
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Over time you’ll learn how to detect and channel the energy of fear before it causes an unconscious reaction, and you’ll learn how to use it as part of the emotional guidance system that you’re equipped with. For today, just know that fear can be a helpful feeling as we learn to work with it.
Read MoreCoronavirus Got You Spinning? 8 Tips to Stay Sane
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One of the benefits of practicing yoga and weaving its philosophy throughout your life is this: You embody the ability to respond intelligently to life as it arises. I’m not saying “don’t be afraid.” I’m saying - make room for your fear on the journey but don’t let it drive the car.
Read MoreThree Fear Survival Strategies
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In light of current events, I’m going to talk about fear—there’s a lot of that going around these days. Here are three fear survival strategies to keep you from going off the rails.
Read MoreAre Your Life Problems Really Trauma Symptoms?
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If you’re struggling with situations that seem to keep coming around, no matter HOW HARD YOU TRY, you might be dealing with unresolved trauma at the root.
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