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5 Key Ways to Keep Calm with Mindfulness ll Kathy Hawkins
Do you often feel frustrated and anxious throughout your day? Sometimes it only takes one little thing to ruin your mood, stress you out, and tank the rest of your day. Maybe life has piled up around you making you feel overloaded. You’d like not to feel so overwhelmed and even to be able to…
Read MoreWhen Looking to get Lucky Let Your Mind Shine! ll By Brenda Bomgardner
Let your sapiosexual self out and get lucky this Saint Patty’s Day. The term sapiosexual, which is now mainstream on dating apps, such as OkCupid and Sapio, is putting a new twist on dating and takes a very different approach to partnership than the hook-ups and looks status quo. If you prefer brains over beauty…
Read MoreSpirituality: Wild Calls to Wild ll By Rev. Mary Coday Edwards, MA.
I stood on the cliffside of the Baltit Fort in Hunza, Pakistan, as the wind howled and whipped snow flurries through the peaks of the towering Hindu Kush Mountains surrounding me. It was off-season, so I had that barren rock face to myself. My family had moved on inside. The boom of an avalanche broke…
Read MoreMind/ Body / Spirit: Integrating the Whole Being ll By Faye Maguire
We often hear about “treating the whole person”, which is an acknowledgement that modern Western medicine and psychology has, in practice, separated human beings in disparate parts and treated those parts as if they exist in a vacuum, unconnected to the rest of the person. Medicine has become the domain of specialists, highly educated in…
Read MoreCrystals for Calm and Clarity ll By Megan Anderson
I think we’ve probably all seen it by now, from It Girls to Instagram – crystals are having a moment. While it may seem like a recent trend, there is something beautiful, magical and mysterious that’s drawn humans to rocks and minerals throughout history. It’s no coincidence that the Hope Diamond is one of the…
Read MoreLeaning into Growth and Challenge: How to Gauge Yourself in a Healthy Way. ll By Stephanie Boulton
I used to work as a field Instructor for Outward Bound Canada. Outward Bound is an outdoor education school which uses the outdoors to teach real life skills to mainly teens but also adults. The whole premise of Outward Bound expeditions is to take a group of people who don’t know each other and put…
Read MoreTo Me, from Me… Be my Valentine! ll By Michelle LaBorde, MA, LPCC
Imagine you are engaged in a deep conversation with a beloved friend who is suffering. They confide in you that they are feeling anxious and paralyzed by the pressure they are experiencing at work to deliver a huge project on time and on budget. And imagine yourself responding to them in this way: “Well your…
Read MoreForget the Doom and Gloom this is the 2020 Chinese Year of the White Metal Rat ll By Dorothy Wallis
As the cycle of the New Year begins, I always find it fascinating and very beneficial to look at the energies that will surround and engage us throughout the year. This year there are powerful forces mixing together creating a potent potion of movement in a vortex of energy that can be harnessed through focused…
Read More2020 Resolution – Be More Responsive and Less Reactive with Mindfulness ll By Kathy Hawkins
Mindfulness and mindful meditation. They’re all the rage right now, but what exactly are they and why should we care? Mindfulness is another way of referring to awareness. Mindfulness is paying attention and being in the present moment and doing it intentionally and without judgment. Mindfulness meditation is a meditation practice that invites awareness of…
Read MoreHow to Keep Growing with GROWTH Goals ll By Brenda Bomgardner
We all want to believe we are capable of achieving our personal and professional goals. Reaching our goals in life requires us to actively participate on our own personal development. Professional development is pretty straight forward. Set a goal for learning a new skill or gaining new knowledge often associated with career advancement. However, when…
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