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“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” ― Socrates Change can happen all of a sudden or it can creep up on us without truly recognizing it as such! Either way, change often brings fear into our hearts. Humans are creatures of […]
In March of last year, I explored alexithymia when reflecting on how this difficulty in identifying, describing, and feeling our emotional world may be a factor in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), specifically how early childhood trauma impacts the developmental ability to integrate thinking and feeling. I find myself revisiting this topic again due to recent […]
“We can never attain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.”― Dalai Lama The month of April, among other things, has been designated Stress Awareness Month. The first step to making any change in our life is awareness. Without awareness, we tend to continue on our journeys doing the same old things, […]
Although my adolescent days are several decades behind me, I still clearly remember the stress I experienced during those years, not only from the academic pressures but from the social pressure to “fit in”, while trying to manage potentially conflicting expectations from family and friends. Unfortunately, I was not taught ways to manage that stress, […]
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”― William Shakespeare I found myself noticing the scent of the orange blossoms in the air this week. It is one of my most favorite scents and I make sure to stop and smell the small, delicate white flowers […]
As a young woman working in the predominately male corporate culture, I struggled to find purpose, or meaning, in the work that I did to reduce the frustration, among many other mixed emotions, that I felt on a daily basis. In fact, I still have a framed print hanging on a wall in my home […]
“Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.”― Ancient Chinese Proverb As Chinese Astrology follows the lunar calendar, we recently celebrated the Chinese New Year and entered into the year of the Yang (Brown) Earth Dog at the time of the second new moon of the calendar year. As an expression of […]
As a yoga teacher, I get a lot of questions about how much yoga I recommend. The question might be posed as “How many times a week should I take a class?” or “If I practice 3 times a week, how long will it take for me to see results?” or “The length of classes […]
“Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion. – Buddha Last week, on a day when southern California experienced a rare, heavy winter rainfall, a dear friend and colleague and I were scheduled to gather to collaborate on our co-creations for the new year when she came across a beautiful butterfly in her path that was […]
As I have written about in the past, I am not a big fan of making resolutions for the New Year. I find that such resolutions often bring with them failure, self-judgment and self-criticism, and ultimately shame when I might step away from such rigid demands on myself. Sounds more like a recipe for depression […]
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