Saying No Without Feeling Guilty
Sometimes we don’t have a choice — our boss tells us to put the new coversheets on all the TPS reports and all we...
Dr. Ellen HendriksenTips and Guides
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Refill The Half-Empty Glass: Practices For Overcoming Negativity Bias
For most people in developed, affluent societies, negativity bias is no longer a survival mechanism – it’s a handicap. Fortunately, our brain’s innate neuroplasticity...
Isabelle Pikörn
Seeking Solitude In Nature: A Meditation Teacher Shares Her Story
By the time we’re 60, we will have been alive for almost 22,000 days on this planet, rarely, if ever, stopping to watch just...
Stephanie Nash
Internal & External Tools To Honor Your Attention: 3 Techniques For Maintaining Awareness In A Media Rich World
More than two decades since Google organized information according to its popularity, we've seen social media change our experiences online from an information gathering...
Pete Dunlap
The Importance Of Building Strong Emotional Muscles
We all know that if we want to be physically fit, we have to train our physical muscles through cardiovascular exercise, strength training, stretching,...
Kate Eckman
Emotional Eating: How We Try To Regulate Our Emotions With Food And What We Should Do Instead
When we use food to regulate our emotions either by overeating or restricting food, we are trying to self-soothe but, in fact, we may...
Cinzia Pezzolesi
To Be Kind. To Be Kind. To Be Kind.
Understanding is the key. Kindness is the way. In Yogic texts, 'Ahimsa' ("Do no harm" in Sanskrit) is so easily expressed but not so...
Annemaree Rowley
Activating Self-Healing Powers With Yoga Therapy
There is a good reason that yoga has been used as a tool for healing for centuries. Yoga helps to calm our sympathetic nervous...
Katie Estridge
You Are Not Broken! From A Place Of Fear To A Place Of Love
"Whether you are aware of it or not, you are always coming from a place of love or fear." Melissa Ambrosini shares her guidance...
Melissa Ambrosini
Unpacking Our Thoughts To Reduce Mind-Wandering
Mindfulness meditation helps us to form a new relationship with our thoughts. Find out more.
Tom Evans