Ways to Welcome Spring
This is the time of year when the Earth seems to wake up. We’re ready to move, grow, flirt, talk, clean out our homes and open our windows and doors.
We can use our natural, instinctual response to this time of year to make changes in our lives. Or, we can just have some fun celebrating a new season.
How To: Practice Gratitude
It starts with one question: What are you grateful for, right now? Sometimes, this question feels too big. When that happens, you can use this list of smaller questions.
Ways to Journal
There is no wrong way to keep a journal.
Journaling is simply the act of writing things down in a private medium. Your journaling practice should fulfill your specific needs.
Whether you’ve tried journaling in the past and never enjoyed it; or you’ve been journaling for years and are just looking for something new to try, here are eight journaling techniques you can use.
Magic Moments
There is beauty all around us. Seeing that beauty, experiencing life to the fullest, is not about where you are, who you are, or what you’re doing; it’s about your mindset.
How To: Go With the Flow
Life is full of change; it’s one of the only things that’s guaranteed. Accepting and even embracing that change is a form of resilience that can bring long-term happiness. But that’s not easy to do.
How To: Overcome Shame
Shame is an identity crisis. It tells us that we aren't who we say we are, we aren't who we want to be.
When we feel shame, it’s tempting to look away. But in order to move past it we have to shine a light on it, understand its roots, and create a new narrative to help us move forward.
Ways to Meditate
Inspiration for your meditation practice, whether you’re just starting or you’ve had a routine for years.
How To: Listen to Your Body
Often, our bodies know things before our minds. Our minds tend to hold on to expectations, plans, and assumptions; where our bodies simply react to changing circumstances as they come. By listening to our bodies, we can be present and more easily adapt to change. By nurturing our bodies, we can process trauma and anxiety and help ourselves to move forward.
Alanis Obomsawin
“When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can’t eat money.”
How To: Enforce Boundaries
Setting boundaries is difficult. It takes self-awareness, courage, and assertiveness. But once you've set the boundary, it doesn't stop there; you have to keep enforcing it.
How To: Practice Nonattachment
We’re attached to many things in our lives: material things, other people, our own sense of self, thoughts, hopes, beliefs. When these attachments cause us suffering, it’s time to investigate them.
How To: Calm in Five Minutes
Our stress response is designed to help us through dangerous circumstances. But in our modern lives, sometimes that response is triggered by moments that are not truly dangerous, and impedes us from living as we’d like to. This guide covers a few techniques for self-soothing on short notice.
How To: Breakthrough Conversations
Confrontation and feedback don’t have to be difficult. But we’re afraid to speak up, don’t want to start a fight, aren’t sure if we deserve what we want to ask for. This is a guide to having open and honest conversations - especially when it seems difficult.
How To: Affirmative Journaling
Affirmative journaling is a self-calming ritual and tool to craft your own affirmations and manifestation based specifically on your fears and anxieties. Instead of writing down your thoughts and feelings word for word, you process them in real time, validate your feelings, and refocus yourself on beliefs and hopes.
How To: Self Massage
Self massage is an incredible tool for self-discovery, anxiety relief, and physical health. There are many tools and techniques of self massage, but here we’ll explore five types of self-massage to relieve anxiety and soothe your body.
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