If you are anything like me, you absolutely love to spend a day at home without having to leave the house for anything. In fact, my favorite days are days that feel good to my entire nervous system. Slow days that are not governed by deadlines and have…
As I come home at the end of a long day of teaching and stumble into the couch exhausted, my husband looks at me and says: “When are you going to learn that you are not supposed to give a 100% all of the time?!”. I frown but…
The allure of others Just think about how much time, energy and effort we expend by focusing on other people’s lives. Time, energy and effort we then lack for ourselves and the lives we wish to build for ourselves. It often manifests as comparison to others which then…
What is a vision board? In short, a vision board is a collage that you make with images of things you either want to feel, do, be or create in your life. The images represent what you want to become and create for yourself. It’s not a to…
How to create a Winter of well-being and nourishment As the days grow shorter and shorter and the light continues to dim, even at the height of day, I can’t help but feel the urge to turn more inward. My body craving more rest and warmth. My mind…
I don’t know about you, but to me, the brutality of this world brings me to my knees more often than I am willing to admit. It seems like peace and respect are so difficult to come by. I even find it difficult to wrap my thoughts around…
September? Already? Can you believe it’s September already? *Big sigh of not-quite-sure-if-it’s-relief-yet* 😉. It feels like Summer has come and gone in the blink of an eye. Even when I decided to have a slow and soft Summer, it still flew by. Or at least that’s how it…
Too fast!
As the years pass by, life seems to become even more fast paced than it ever was before. Have you noticed this? In your own life and in the life of everyone around you, busyness seems to be prevalent. We are so exhausted, so depleted and for some reason, we seem to have made a collective agreement that ‘this is life’.
Words are magic. They speak reality into existence. Words can create an oasis in a seemingly infinite desert, or they can turn vast oceans into wastelands. Words shape our carefully curated narratives. Even when we’re not consciously aware of it. Sometimes these narratives speak the truth. Other times,…
I think we tend to underestimate the power of details. How they add up and how they are components of a bigger narrative. Whether it is in our homes where we restore our minds and bodies, or in our offices where we work, or in the classrooms where…