Today I wanted to offer a simple mediation you can do at home to help you relax and ground down when you’re feeling particularly stressed or overwhelmed in your mind.…
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For the past month or so, I’ve been exploring what yoga is and what it isn’t. I’ve talked about how yoga is not just cool poses on Instagram, it is so…
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If you go to any yoga class I teach, you’ll notice I often start the class off with a breathing exercise. There are a lot of different breathing techniques in…
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Recently, I talked about how unhealthy our modern obsession with the pixelated image (think Instagram, Facebook, etc) can be. Many of you (including myself) often pay unhealthy attention to images…
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The Visual Emphasis of Social Media on Our Modern Lives Due to Instagram, Facebook, and other forms of Social Media, we live in an age where the visual is more…
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ArtArt TherapyCreative WritingExpressive ArtHealingYoga
How Creative Expression Can Help You Heal After Trauma and Loss
On October 30th, 2012, I got the phone call that no one wants to receive: It was from the sister of my dearly beloved best friend and Kindred Spirit,…
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Walk the Straight-N-Narrow: A Poem about the Spiritual Abuse of Spiritual Authority Walk the straight-n-narrow, They said, And nothing will go awry. Walk the straight-n-narrow, and don’t ask the question why.…
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Body ImageHealing
A Love Poem to My Body: A Poem on Body Image, Chronic Illness, and Self Acceptance
A Love Poem (About Body Image/Self Image) We grew up together, You and I, Intricately connected Through a trillion cells Loved and lovely childhood Blooming together into Awkward ugly ducklinghood…
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Body – A Poem on Body Image/Self Image A four-letter curse Treated like a hearse Hated and excluded No wonder we’re wounded Scorned by humanity Temple of divinity Vessel of…
