by Lori Schermers, RD
The holidays are filled with the warmth of love from family and friends, brilliant decorations, and an abundance of food and traditions. Many of us eagerly anticipate the traditional foods of the season while worrying about how to manage the numerous social events.
The stress of the holiday season combined with the abundance of seasonal foods, including desserts and treats, creates understandable challenges for eating ...
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“Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes
If it were always a fist or always stretched open
You would be paralyzed
Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding
As beautifully balanced as birdwings” Rumi
I remember the first time I felt my breath. No, it wasn’t as a child ...
by Carol Hendershot
“We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.” – Hopi Elder
Anyone who has spent as much time as I have in the self-help section of a book store can tell you that there are innumerable opportunities to improve upon this thing called “me/you.” The possibilities of self-fixing are mind-boggling and endless. Self-improvement is our ...
by Carol Hendershot
There is a story about a group of blind men who came upon a strange and wondrous creature called an elephant. None of them had ever heard of such a strange beast before and decided to check it out. With some trepidation, they approached the animal from different angles. One approached from the front and touched the elephant’s trunk, proclaiming that this creature resembled a very thick snake. ...
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By Ashley Bovin
When we start to practice mindfulness, we’re invited to adopt some new tools and attitudes. One of the most important is curiosity.
Have you ever heard the aphorism, “Interested people are interesting people?”
I don’t suggest we should seek for others to think we’re interesting, but consider the ...
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By Carol Hendershot
The brain is an amazing, simplifying mechanism. It loves to automate as much as possible; otherwise, how would we make it through our lives (or even one day)?
The more automatic our brain can make our life, the more energy it can conserve for the hard work of meeting new experiences and figuring out how to make them more automatic.
by Carol Hendershot
We meditate to learn to be kinder to ourselves and others and to understand things.
Whenever I run into an old friend and ask them how they are doing, the standard response is “busy; really busy.” And as much as I ...
By Carol Hendershot
“Being listened to is so close to being loved that most people cannot tell the difference.” David Oxbury Augsberg
We all want friends we can count on and partners that know us well and love us anyway. We want to be with someone who will listen to us with respect and be there for us when we fail. And we want our friends and lovers to be able ...
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A year or so ago, I was having a really beautiful conversation with a friend of mine. We were each sharing about how our life trajectories had changed over the years, and how we were now aspiring to different goals. I came right out and asked her, “What is it that you want?” She told me, “I just want to be happy.”
I paused for a moment, took ...
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When I first started doing yoga, it was for one simple reason: I wanted to get rid of my anxiety. A friend had invited me to a yoga class, and she said it might help with my restlessness, my inability to sit still, and maybe even my depression. I know; I was all over the map.
I didn’t really hold ...
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