♦ Ayurvedic self-care offers holistic, sustainable ways to nourish your body for the long term. These five tips will help you manage your life with more ease. For a lot of people, self-care seems indulgent and selfish. Life is busy, and adding self-care can feel like one...
Read More♠ Sick? Love yourself through the illness with cozy comfort, breathwork, restorative yoga, and more. Being sick is common enough, but that doesn’t make it suck any less. Whether you’ve got a simple cold or a more serious long-term illness, being unwell can really make life feel...
Read MoreSelf-compassion can make a person feel more energetic, alive, and optimistic. Right up there with being able to make spaghetti and wash your own socks, practicing self-compassion rates as a vital life skill. With self-compassion, we are able to accept that though we are imperfect beings...
Read More↓ “Positivity becomes toxic when an overfocus on rainbows and flowers leads to bypassing necessary emotions and experiences. Difficult emotions are there for a reason.” There's one cure for toxic positivity ...
Read More↓ Be your own valentine this year. Recommit to “the most important relationship of your life: the one you have with yourself.” Valentine’s Day is a holiday with a lot of pressure. It’s the only holiday for a stretch during late winter, and it’s all about romance....
Read MoreAs the chocolate buzz of Valentine’s Day fades, I find myself thinking about radical acts of self-love. Over the last week I’ve polled my friends, asking them for their take on the qualities of someone in a state of self-love. For some, the question conjures...
Read MoreExplore Powerful Practices for Uncovering Lasting Self-Love, Self-Awareness, and Self-Worth “The process of genuine, self-loving transformation requires us to view ourselves with new lenses, new ways of really witnessing, as we take the journey inward.” My dream is to empower others with the tools of self-love mastery...
Read MoreBoosting your emotional wellbeing doesn’t always have to feature grand gestures and sweeping changes. Here are nine small adjustments you can make in your day-to-day life. A great way to welcome the New Year is to focus on your emotional wellbeing. After all, your emotional wellness...
Read More↓ “When we do not listen to the signals of our bodies as they shift from season to season, we are causing a subtle, constant form of stress. Here are a few ways you can help your body rebalance during the winter season.” Living in cities with...
Read MoreAte two orders of fries? Downed a bottle of Chardonnay? Haven't been to a yoga class all month? Well, today is a new day. Here are 11 mantras for when you want to take amazingly good care of your body, starting now. Today I treat myself...
Read MoreSelf-compassion can make a person feel more energetic, alive, and optimistic. Right up there with being able to make spaghetti and wash your own socks, practicing self-compassion rates as a vital life skill. With self-compassion, we are able to accept that though we are imperfect...
Read MoreMindful Editor, Anne Alexander, shares some cringeworthy reasons why self-care might just be something worth considering. Self-care can be touchy subject. It certainly was for me. I used to think that “self-care” was for privileged, entitled, lucky folks who were out of touch with the lives of real...
Read MoreThere’s a reason why most successful people agree that time is their most valuable asset: Once it’s gone, it’s gone forever. Unlike money, you can’t earn more time. Unfortunately, most of us undervalue the time we’ve been given. We waste it by putting others’ needs ahead...
Read MoreRelease the guilt and be free. The word “sin” or “syn” denotes "missing the mark". Depending on your personal beliefs, guilt can be a strong part of your life and before you know it the subconscious mind is governing your decisions and how you feel. When...
Read MoreLove yourself in a way only you can. Treat yourself as you would your most adored person, place, or object. Why not? ↓ “Sometimes, it only takes one person to change your life. One to be there for you, to push you, to believe in you. It...
Read MoreHow to cultivate and strengthen our capacity for kindness and compassion. ↓ Offering a smile and a kind word to the checkout person, giving a frazzled mom an understanding look when her child is having a tantrum, offering your shoulder to cry on for an upset friend;...
Read MoreWeight, Worth, and the Radical Act of Having a Body ↓ Like so many teen girls, I had an eating disorder. It was called “food phobia”—I literally feared food. I didn’t acknowledge it as anorexia (which it was) for a long time because I wasn’t really trying...
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[embed]https://vimeo.com/127956353[/embed] Healing Body Image Through Belly Dance As we evolve towards more gender equality on the planet, communities that cultivate the divine goddess and celebrate the sacred feminine become more important. On this episode of Conscious Living®, we visit one such community, Sahara Dance in Washington D.C. By teaching the...
Read More* Yoga for Emotional Trauma * By creating a healing environment for your body through yoga, you can transform emotional trauma into well-being, release suffering, and come home to your body’s natural capacity for health and joy. * Emotional trauma can have a profound and lasting impact on health and...
Read More* How to Rid Yourself of Negative Energy * The negative energy seems to be swirling around more than ever these days. The news is difficult to watch with the unpredictable weather disasters and bickering politicians. It is often impossible to avoid the harsh energy of the world....
Read MoreStop Self Criticizing, Start Meditating * According to the experts, meditation lessens the extremities of negative thoughts, changes patterns of belief and facilitates learning how to forgive yourself. Admit it, you’ve been there: acting as your own worst critic by doubting yourself. As a writer and yoga instructor,...
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