It is incredible how adaptive and responsive the human body is. We are wired to navigate through the ups and downs of life and to come out stronger, wiser and more resilient. There are plenty of examples in your life when you can recall stress fuelling physical, emotional or personal growth. Your body was designed […]
There are times when we know what we want but we are unable to hold onto it. Often, we are not able to accept anything new simply because there isn’t room for it in our lives. We have to let go of the things that no longer serve us to allow room for what we […]
Experiencing an event or a situation for exactly what it is allows you to stay in the present. Attaching meaning to an event creates a story and can keep you feeling stuck in a thought or emotion. From childhood, a story begins to form based on things that were said to us by our parents, […]
Pema Chodron said, “Things don’t really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together and fall apart again. It’s just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.” Well, isn’t this the way […]
Life is constantly changing and, in order to survive, we must adapt to what’s going on around us and within us. Any change (positive or negative) can cause varying degrees of stress that can affect us physically, mentally or emotionally. We perceive our world through the nervous system. The nervous system is responsible for the […]
It has been about 3 months since we’ve been on “high alert” receiving new information, warnings and regulations that are altering the way we live and interact with each other and our environment. It seems each day we are being told how we are to best conduct ourselves in order to keep ourselves and those […]