Relaxation

“Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving yourself and see what happens.” ~Louise Hay There is a lot of hype around self-love these days. The media and marketing world often bombard us with messages insinuating that the key to self-love lies in consumerism. For a long time, I bought into

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“It takes nothing away from a human to be kind to an animal.” ~Joaquin Phoenix Earlier this year, I went to Egypt with a small group of friends. “Egypt will activate something ancient in you,” I was told by one of them. “You have to go.” Egypt wasn’t exactly on my bucket list, but in

“Stay in the moment. The practice of staying present will heal you. Obsessing about how the future will turn out creates anxiety. Replaying broken scenarios from the past causes anger and sadness. Stay here, in this moment.” ~Sylvester McNutt Like many people, I have an anxiety disorder that twists my thoughts and feelings. I call

“A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms.” – Zen Shin In the past, I often felt like I didn’t belong in groups of women. Sometimes I felt like something was wrong with me, like I was othered in one way or another: too sporty, too quiet,

“Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain.” ~Eckhart Tolle I completed my meditation teacher training in 2022 and continue to practice two to three times each day. I was initially skeptical

“Declutter your mind, your heart, your home. Let go of the heaviness that is weighing you down.” ~Maria Defillo I remember perusing through a used bookstore in a small New England town as a teenager. A book caught my eye—maybe because its spine was a MacIntosh apple red—and I slid it off the shelf. It

“We need each other, deeper than anyone ever dares to admit even to themselves. I think it is a genetic imperative that we huddle together and hold on to each other.” ~Patch Adams A few years ago, I was invited to a work event. When I received the invitation a few months before, the idea

“Have patience that is all unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like closed rooms, like books written like a foreign language.” ~Rainer Maria Rilke I started thinking about a distant relative on a walk in the woods. I had thought about her more often when she suddenly stopped speaking to

We all play a pivotal role in society. But I’ve toyed with the New Age spiritual notion that we all have a unique purpose on Earth to fulfill—a purpose for which we have chosen to be here. I used to wonder if I could only be happy if I found this one resounding and elusive