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Why Midlife Women Are Feeling Anxious.
Anxiety seemed to be the theme of 2020. It was a year of adjusting, pivoting, uncertainty, grieving and coping (and this is the abridged list!), and with life now kicking back into full gear, we see high levels of stress, exhaustion and anxiety resurfacing,...
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A Mindful Meditation to Prepare for 2021
As we move toward the end of this tumultuous year and before the next has arrived, it’s a potent time of transition. This is a time when we typically take stock. Reassessing and re-evaluating what has gone before. In the same way that this time of year traditionally...
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Finding calm amongst the chaos
I know that when things are in crisis it is easy to stay motivated to do the things that help. But meditation is a form of mind training and, like weight training, it doesn't get stronger with a haphazard practice. If you do it every day, it creates a better quality...
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5 Steps to Help Establish a Daily Meditation Practice
Meditation is a form of mind training and, like weight training, it doesn't improve with a haphazard practice. Practiced every day however, meditation contributes significantly to a better quality of life. It is therefore important to establish strategies that...
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10 Books That Have Made Me The Mother I Am Today
Perhaps you know some of these books, perhaps all. We can celebrate our connection knowing we are built of the same fibre. Perhaps there are some titles here that are unfamiliar. May they feed your soul as they have mine. When I was pregnant with my first child no...
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Are you a resilient parent?
The only way I know to fully connect with my children and feel completely fulfilled as a parent is to keep my heart wide open and attuned to whatever is going on for them. I am blessed to be invited to share in the details of their lives: their worries, stresses,...
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Why we need to teach our children how to relax
Childhood has seen a marked change over the past 30 years and so too has our children's mental and physical wellbeing. We as parents all want our children to live in emotional balance and to show resilience and stability in the face of life's challenges. We...
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Mindful Benefits Of A Digital Detox
The other day I was scrolling through my Facebook feed when I came across a link to a great piece in the New York Times. I jumped across to the lengthy article and had a read. Once I'd finished I returned to Facebook, pausing to read some things in more depth,...
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Why Adults Need Play Time Too
We don’t lose the need for novelty and pleasure as we grow up. What we all instinctively know is that "All work and no play makes Jill a dull girl." Work, parenting and the daily routine keeps us very task focused and achievement oriented. Our hectic, modern...
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What Yoga Teaches Us About Parenting
Yoga, like parenting, is a lifelong practice that confronts us with all facets of ourselves. We have good days and not so good days, but our role is to keep showing up and paying attention. In making yoga a regular part of your lifestyle, particularly if you have a...
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Teaching tweens how to set boundaries
It is human nature to avoid pain, including emotional pain, whether it is ours or someone else's. So we need to help our children navigate the fear and guilt that may come with learning to set boundaries. This morning my daughter wanted to have a 'strategy meeting'...
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How to have an honest chat with yourself
Still your body Settle your thoughts Focus your attention on the clean, white page before you that will soon hold all of your answers. Wait, I feel you scuttling away To get some tea, to tidy up , to quickly attend to another matter. We circle, but rarely land....
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