This may sound a bit unbelievable, but tapping certain places on your body can help reduce stress! This somatic intervention is called Emotional Freedom Technique, or EFT Tapping. This week, we’ll explain EFT Tapping and share several guided resources (featuring our very own Meg!) so you can practice this exercise anytime and anywhere.
When was the last time that you let yourself do nothing? Truly nothing. Not “avoiding a task by playing video games or watching TV or talking with a friend” nothing. But the “sitting and staring at a wall” type of nothing.
When was the last time you last yourself just be?
Have you been told you should do yoga, but the poses are difficult to hold? Or, you want to practice yoga, but you don’t have the flexibility and balance like the yogis in the video.
The good news is that you might not have to give up on yoga practice just yet! Chair yoga offers a gentle accessible way to experience the benefits of yoga, whether seated or using a chair for balance.
Are you stuck in a project? Can’t think of how to get that pesky idea onto the page? Or are you having trouble staying focused long enough to get started and working on a task? The research might just tell you to take a hike!
This week, let’s explore how movement helps us think, and practical ways to incorporate movement into our routine when taking a hike does not fit into our schedule.
The holidays are here, ready to sweep you up in a whirlwind of busyness. Between the endless end-of-year tasks, it’s easy to miss the simple joys of the season and watch the days fly by.
But what if, instead of “looking forward to” a moment, we lived in this moment? This moment offers us an opportunity. An opportunity to laugh, to connect, to breathe, and to cherish these moments.
This week, let’s remind ourselves to slow down, live in the moment, and create memories.
Did you know? Tuning into your body is a quick way to time travel into the present moment!
Grounding is a coping strategy designed to “ground” you into the present moment with your mind, body, and surroundings. Many people have used grounding techniques to cope with flashbacks, dissociation, anxiety, or even upsetting thoughts and memories.
The best part about grounding? Most techniques are portable, meaning you can take them wherever you go!
Processing grief is not about “getting over” a loss but rather learning to integrate the grief into our lives in a way that allows us to move forward while honoring our experiences. Often, we rely on “do you want to talk about it?” to process grief. In this week’s newsletter, let’s see how we can access grief in the body and unlock it through movement.
Our culture, especially on the internet, glorifies and values staying busy, hustling, and being productive. Sometimes it can feel like we have to reach a certain level of busyness to be worthy of resting or taking days off. But constantly staying busy is not sustainable, and we can quickly find ourselves in burnout.
So, if you find you are too busy to rest, let’s find some small habits of rest to build into your day.
Have you ever been “in the zone” where everything around you melts away and all of your focus is on the task at hand? Your concentration doesn’t seem to waver and it’s rather effortless to sustain your attention on the task—whatever the task is, whether it’s painting, playing music, or working on menial tasks at work.
However, those moments are infrequent and perhaps happen less than you would prefer. So, this week, let’s discover how we can create more opportunities for us to get into the zone.
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