S P I R I T | Let yourself be surprised. A divine thought offered by a treasured therapist today. What if we let ourselves be surprised? What if we gave permission to our brain to not have to figure it all out, let if off the hook?
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Whole Foods. What does it mean? Foods with little to no processing, free of artificial ingredients or additives.
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E X P R E S S I O N | Music. 🎶 An ancient mood-altering modality with new physiological understanding. Music is almost everywhere we go— in our cars, grocery stores, “that cute little shop down the street,” gyms, spas, parties, airports, farmer’s markets—playlists abound, and present at each rite of passage from birthdays to funerals.
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R E L A T I O N S H I P S | Love. “Love is not enough” was a phrase I heard recently @gender_spectrum conference this past summer and rang in my head after a public argument with a family member.
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N O U R I S H M E N T | Intuitive Eating. Paying attention to the signals of your body’s hunger: what it wants to eat, how it wants to be fed, how it feels to be hungry and full, and feeling the fulfillment of giving your body what it longs for.
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N A T U R E | Phytoncides. Airborne chemicals trees and plants emit to protect themselves with from germs and insects, and benefit people too!
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R E S T | Reflection. Paired with rest increase your ability to learn, adding just a bit more ease in life.
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LYW Womxn’s Bodies. A balanced view of healing.
Healing is a lifelong journey toward wholeness. Healing is remembering what has been forgotten about connection, and unity and interdependence among all things living and non-living.
liveyourwellN O U R I S H M E N T | “She that takes medicine and neglects diet wastes the skill of a physician. Chinese Proverb (slightly altered by me he —> she).
I was tagged by @therapywithtea to share why I became a therapist. Yay! Here’s the scoop!
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Conversation with Dr. Valerie Correa, Psychologist and Marriage and Family Therapist
The year before discovering she had acute myeloid leukemia, Val had already dreamt of a scenario in which she would live in a cabin on the grounds of a cancer retreat center founded by her. She planned to retire there and to live amongst the survivors in her cabin. Little did she know, however, that what she envisioned was prescient; within a year, she would be diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia with a formidable prognosis. She was as close to death as any of the oncology doctors had ever seen in a new patient and needed to begin treatment immediately.
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N O U R I S H M E N T + R E L A T I O N S H I P S | Health at Every Size. A way of eating, a way of loving your whole body.
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N O U R I S H M E N T | What is a Meal? A great question posed by a nutritionist a few days ago @thewellspringschool at the Nutrition for Disordered Eating Across the Spectrum workshop.
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R E L A T I O N S H I P S | Birthday gratitude. Today is my birthday 🎉 and I’m spending it in one of my favorite places in the world, Central Oregon @blackbutteranch. For the past several years, I spend my morning thanking the people in my life who give my life meaning, purpose, ease and comfort.
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A quick meditative stretch. Sit on the ground. Close your eyes and soften your face. Rest your mind and relax your body, take one long breath in through your nose, then out through your nose.
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N O U R I S H M E N T | Seasonal eating. Food at it’s peak freshness, nutrient-density and flavor. In other words, food that will give you all it’s got, synchronizing your whole mind/body to the season.
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N A T U R E + R E L A T I O N S H I P S | Interconnectedness. I feel we have to begin standing our ground in the places we love. I think that we have to demand that concern for the land, concern for the Earth, and this extension of community that we've been speaking of, is not marginal - in the same way that women's rights are not marginal, in the same way that rights for children are not marginal. There is no separation between the health of human beings and the health of the land. It is all part of a compassionate view of the world. — Terry Tempest Williams
Steps Toward Greater Racial Sensitivity. Nia Wilson, a young black woman was murdered on Sunday by a white man on a BART station platform. Her sister was harmed too by the same man.
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