Creating New Trails

“Good things are happening in my life.”  This is a new thought I’m trying to create a groove in my brain with.  There’s this whole concept about how we create our experience with our thoughts.  This may be true, but I’ve always had some anxiety around...

Finding Calm in Times of Uncertainty

Uncertainty can make us feel like the ground beneath us is crumbling.  For me, my entire body tenses up and my digestive system usually starts to act up too.  The resistance comes on like gangbusters and I find myself spiraling in frantic circles trying to figure out...

Embracing Your Brave

Bravery comes in many forms and conjures a lot of different images. The bravery I am referring to comes in the form of showing up as our messy, beautiful, authentic, imperfect selves. It comes in the form of letting ourselves off the hook and pushing ourselves out of...

Emerging from Darkness

I used to think there was this magical age I would reach when I had it all figured out.  When I was twenty, that age was thirty and then when I was thirty, the age became forty.  Now that I’m 46, I’ve kind of given up on the notion that I will ever figure it...

Food for (Mental) Health

It all starts with food.  What we put in our bodies, is what comes out.  If you eat food that causes inflammation and toxicity, your behaviors will reflect that.  If you eat food that calms and nourishes your body, that is what your behaviors toward...