The connection between our mind and body is pivotal, but often poorly understood. It can be all too easy to ignore the emotion-driven signals in our bodies, or isolate the processes of our mind from our physical symptoms. Symptoms of poor emotional health can include: back pain, insomnia, heart palpitations, dry mouth, fatigue, high blood […]

A solid martial arts practice can help you tap into your body-informed wisdom. When you tune into your body’s wisdom, you can gain more present moment awareness, becoming more courageous and connected to yourself and the world around  you. Once we can learn to validate our own internal, emotional experiences, we become less scared of […]

A trigger is something that sets off a flashback to a traumatic event. Not everyone has the same triggers, however, it can cause intense fear and anxiety. Whenever you are triggered, it’s important to give yourself gentleness and compassion. Being harsh and rigid with yourself when you are moving through intense emotions only intensifies the […]

Have you ever decided in the morning that you will stick to a goal, such as being patient with others, and find yourself lashing out at someone 4 hours later? Most of the time we set goals with the best of intentions, and end up getting lost in our conditioned patterns of behavior somewhere along […]

Yoga has been a part of my life for over a decade, but it wasn’t until my yoga teacher training that I began to fully understand chakras and how balancing chakras positively affects mind, body, and soul. If you have been making attempts to work on yourself yet aren’t quite seeing the results you anticipated, […]

Have you ever noticed how you start to feel more depressed or anxious after you have been laying around all day? Sometimes, our bodies need to take time to rest and do nothing. However, there needs to be a balance. If you haven’t been active all day and your mind is idle, you may start […]

Have you ever felt like the weight of the world is on your shoulders? If you would have checked your posture at that time, you might have noticed slumped shoulders, tension, and a collapsed chest. The mind-body connection is very much real, and your emotional difficulties are manifested physically. William James, a psychologist and philosopher […]

Being in therapy is vulnerable. Finally, you are fleshing out the parts of you that you didn’t want anyone else to see, and you feel exposed. You feel safer when you build walls when you don’t share parts of yourself or let anyone else in. Eventually, you are left feeling alone and stuck on the […]