Wellness Within Blog
Book Recommendation for Healing & Calm
The book Deep Listening by Jillian Pransky is a gem of a toolbox! As a therapist and yoga teacher in Geneva, IL, I frequently refer to Jillian Pransky’s mindfulness practices. Her teachings lend to epiphanies and her meditations are profound. Deep Listening...
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Why Mindfulness Makes Me Cringe
As a yoga teacher and therapist, you’d think I’d be supportive of the wave of mindfulness sweeping the country. There are movements for “educating mindfully” and a recent issue of TIME magazine even featured mindfulness on its cover. Mindfulness is the psychological...
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Faith: complete trust and confidence. A meditation to cultivate.
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Ocean Meditation
Find a place to sit comfortably and without distractions. As you listen to the meditation, if at any time discomfort arises, here's a few tips: just notice your reaction and try to replace your attention back on the...
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Pause and Take a Breath
It’s easy to get swept away by the pace of life. Suddenly the mind is hijacked by thoughts, body is tense, and spirit is depressed. In these moments, it’s not about running faster, but slowing down. It’s essential to pause and take a breath. Donna Farhi touts the...
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Mindfulness to Music – Direct and Anchor Your Attention
Want a way to decompress at the end of your day? How about trying mindfulness to music? The following describes an exercise to direct and anchor your attention.According to Lidia Zylowska in her book the Mindfulness Prescription for Adult ADHD, when listening to music...
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Tips to Cultivate Contentment
Yearning. Acquiring. We live in a culture that is rarely satisfied or still. There is always a new update, a new version, a new product to “improve” our lives. And while progress is indeed good, yearning and acquiring obstruct contentment.We benefit from advances in...
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6 WAYS TO REDUCE YOUR VULNERABILITY TO STRESS AND STAY STRONG
The acronym STRONG is a Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) concept that reminds us of ways we can reduce vulnerability to stress and improve emotional regulation.STRONG stands for the following:Sleep only as much as you need – not more, but definitely not less;Take...
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How Yoga Heals Trauma in the Mind and Body
There are dark places in life. In these places, the heart aches, there is brokenness of spirit. The one thing I always take with is yoga. Yoga meets you in broken places and weaves you back together.One December Thursday night a few years ago, I received a call from...
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Consider the Science of Stress to Re-Define Self-Care and Cultivate Resilience
I recently shared an article to the Eat Breathe Thrive Facebook page called, “This is What Self-Care REALLY Means, Because It’s Not All Salt Baths and Chocolate Cake” http://tcat.tc/2ypTXyq . I was shocked by the comments the original post of the article received, as...
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