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The Beauty of Different
Children especially should not and do not need to make decisions based on historical bias, gendered narratives, or most importantly, what other people may think.
How Do I Find My True Self?
Do you know who you are?
Do you know who you are in the absence of your worries, fears, and the stories you tell yourself?
For me, it’s a remembering, unlayering and an ongoing process of returning back to my true self.
How to Gain Body Freedom
How many of you are seeing more ads on social media for intermittent fasting, intuitive dieting (not a thing, btw), and fitness regimens for that beach body? This time of year seems to spur Diet Culture into overdrive and we are all the victims.
How to Be a Good Person
Now, developmentally kids can be mean as they learn boundaries, press against authority, and work to establish emotional regulation skills. But she mentioned that it feels kids are more reactive and therefore less curious, compassionate, and calm.
Why “Never Settle” Isn’t Always Right
Around this time of year, the pressure to change and do more is omnipresent. As New Year goals and Words of the Year make their way around, it can be familiar to want to push yourself to achieve, master, and overcome.
TGIF: My 2022 Resolutions
So for today, I’m sharing with you my 2022 resolutions. Moreso intentions…purposeful and with a good old determination mixed with lots and lots of grace. I hope that they give you some validation and inspiration and that sharing my intentions for 2022 with you will help keep me accountable!
The Spirit of the Holidays
I’ve been stuck on the newsletter this week. In one facet Christmas time is magic, joy, and love… In another, I’m a tired parent of little kids at home, waging a war against Omicron and flying Matchbox cars.
Rising to the Challenges of these Times
In our all-team meeting this week we were talking about kids these days. As a mama of littles, I recognize I feel overwhelming grief for my children’s childhood.
Grieving During the Holidays
Someone once told me that love and loss are two sides of the same coin. And that the grief we experience feels so great and so unique, because the love we had for the person we lost was so immense and so special.
Managing the Worry Monster
I know I am not alone in struggling with all the “what ifs” and “what now?” as things remain unsettled, undetermined, and well, kind of scary.
Why We Self-Sabotoge
One, I’ve committed to moving my body every day. Exercise is a happy drug for me, and science repeatedly supports this argument.
Creating Space to Feel Fully
After too many days of too much life happening without my normal self-preservation tools being utilized, my feel-good reservoir was empty. I didn’t have any resources left and I was raw, moody, anxious, and low. Really low.
When You Gaslight Yourself
Ah, the holiday season. When manipulation, guilt, and boundary-crossing rage.
But what if the finger actually needs to point at yourself?
What if you, my dear friend, are gaslighting yourself?
The Argument for Rest
Not enough, not enough, not enough.
Make others happy, do what’s best, here to please, take care of.
Do more, work harder, prove, never fail, don’t let it show.
The Key to Mental Health May Be In Your Body
Through my observations, I want to share with you this week on what I know about how our bodies respond to our mental health and how we can use this to our advantage for better health.
How to Overcome Imposter Syndrome
Whether this feeling is or isn’t familiar to you, you may be wondering what exactly imposter syndrome is. Imposter syndrome is characterized by feelings of self-doubt, often related to your accomplishments at work.
Bracing for Change
I find myself anticipating the impending change with more intensity.
It’s brought up some thoughts about how we all brace for change.
How to Support Someone, or Yourself, in Coming Out
What is coming out?
When you don’t fit the heterosexual and gender binary norms, coming out becomes a process that you do over and over again.
How to NOT Traumatize
We’ve all been traumatized. Big events and chronic behaviors inflicted on us cause trauma… but I want to clarify a bit more about how trauma actually gets cemented in our systems and what we can do about it.
The Highest Level of Inner Work
When it comes to consuming information, I’ve found again and again and again is that our greatest tool is our own inner wisdom