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Find The Rhythm For Living Creatively And With Less Stress
Creativity as A Guide When you pace yourself with creativity, activity, and rest throughout the day, you will not be resisting the body's natural rhythm and you will feel less stressed. I teach Mind Body Psychology and use it with my clients in therapy and during our...
Transitions
Transitions are hard if we fight them. Does a leaf fight every fall because it's afraid to detach from it's place of safety on the branch while the wind is tugging it gently to the ground? Maybe, but I don't think so as it is part of the cycle of nature. Do birds...
Fibromyalgia: Treating the Mind and Body
There is a lot of controversy about the physical and psychological aspects of fibromyalgia. My clients come to me with real pain, and I treat them with a combination of EMDR therapy and body work, which is done simultaneously with a massage therapist. The mind and...
Addictive Thinking vs. Mindful Thinking
An excerpt from Stephen Levine's A Gradual Awakening. This Chapter is called The Wanting Mind. ...seeing the scope of my wantings showed me how deeply and subtly dissatisfaction created my personal world, and that seeing freed me from much grasping, from thinking that...
What to Do Before Your Husband Asks for a Divorce….
"There were no warnings; he just told me yesterday that he wants a divorce." I hear this same plea from women who call me and are shocked and off balance when their spouse hits them with this news. Many of us are so busy with life, career, children, family,...
What Gives Our Life Purpose?
What gives us purpose? It is different for everyone and it changes throughout our lifetime. When we are young, we don't think about it; we just live it. Most of us loved playing outside, exploring, being in nature, biking, playing with friends, maybe drawing, dancing,...
Choose Longevity by Changing Your Lifestyle
While at the beach this week, I read the book Younger You, by Dr. Braverman, M.D., and agree with him that by changing your lifestyle with life coaching: you are choosing longevity while feeling younger. Some of the things that cause us to age are: poor working...
Learning Mindful Eating Before Bariatric Surgery
Let's start with what Mindfulness is. It is deliberately paying attention, being fully aware of what is happening both inside and outside yourself -- in your body, heart, and mind -- and outside of yourself in your environment. Before bariatric surgery (weight loss...
A Little Boy is Helped With EMDR
Yesterday a mother came to see me. She was worried about her son. She and his father had divorced years ago and now the boy was 7-years-old. The mother had remarried. The boy loved his father and anticipated his visits, but his father had disappointed him many times...
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