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Earthing: Get Grounded!
Earthing means to sync the body to the natural rhythms of the earth, and it is essential to be connected to the earth to restore and maintain health. When you touch the ground with your bare feet or body, it is called “grounding.” Science Behind Earthing There have...
Hyper-Independence: Generations of Women
Last month I wrote about the trauma response labeled hyper-independence as a general topic. To review, hyper-independence is when autonomy and self-reliance has been taken to the extreme. These people typically have a fear or extreme discomfort with allowing others to...
Hyper-Independence: A Trauma Response
The culture in the United States centers around the concept of independence, capitalism, and making it on your own. Society praises people who can take care of themselves, are self-made, and have hard-won success while any form of dependence is looked down upon and...
Compassion for the Younger Generations
We are accustomed to hearing the older generations criticizing the younger ones, but it is worse than ever with Gen Z and Alpha upon us. It is easy to criticize someone or a group of people who are not like us whether it is age, race, religion, gender, career choice,...
Time for Silence
The world around us is fast-paced and many people have resolved to this as their reality. Expectations other put on us we own without question, definitions of success set by someone other than ourselves, dreams imposed upon us that aren’t really our own dreams, and...
What is the Ego?
Your ego is your identity as defined by a collection of beliefs and when challenged, you can become defensive to protect it at all costs. Self-esteem is different from ego but there is a careful balance between the two. We often hear “Put your ego aside”, “He has a...
Our Past Does Not Define Us
You are entitled to reinvent yourself as many times as you want. You learn, heal, and grow every day and are a different person today than you were yesterday. Embrace the fact that your past is what brought you here on your journey. Nothing you have or have failed to...
Dark Night of the Soul
Have you ever felt or are currently feeling you are alone in a meaningless universe, helpless as you go through the motions, at a crossroads on your life journey, and hopelessness? You could be going through a Dark Night of the Soul which goes by many other names...
Unconditional Self-Worth
Aren’t self-esteem and self-worth the same thing? They are not, but are both important. Let’s start first with self-esteem since that seems to be referred to most often. Self-esteem is primarily built upon sources outside of yourself that you don’t control. It is...
Manifesting Your Reality
Changing mindset & energy from negative to positive helps in many ways and manifestation is one of those because you attract what you focus on. What we believe creates reality, so you have the power to change it, but it is a little harder that that since this sits...