If you’re dealing with chronic pain or symptoms and you have a desire to heal yourself using mind-body tools, I have a little shopping list for you. These items will help you cut to the core of what’s behind your physical pain and will help you feel better. Maybe you’ve read Dr. John Sarno’s theories… Continue reading Your Mind-Body Shopping List: Heal Yourself for $5 (or less!)
Tag: inner critic
The Trick to Healing TMS: How to Get Out of Overwhelm and into Relief
I’m so overwhelmed with the ideas about TMS, Mind Body Syndrome, and healing that I don’t know where to start. I’m afraid that this approach won’t work for me, and I’ll be the only one, ever, who fails at this. I can’t find my emotions – I feel blank. I’m afraid to feel my emotions,… Continue reading The Trick to Healing TMS: How to Get Out of Overwhelm and into Relief
Were You Hard on Yourself Today? Join the Self-Kindness Movement!
They say you teach what you need most to learn. This makes sense to me, as all I teach these days is self-kindness. When I was younger, I was beyond harsh with myself. I was downright mean. I was not one bit loving toward myself. I put constant pressure on myself to change, all the… Continue reading Were You Hard on Yourself Today? Join the Self-Kindness Movement!
Killing the Inner Critic with Kindness
Do you ever have days when your inner critic just won’t stop? When you beat yourself up for pretty much everything, from your hair to your clothes to that thing you said that was really, really ridiculous (Oh God, you’re still cringing), to your parenting to your work performance…and on and on and on? I… Continue reading Killing the Inner Critic with Kindness
Practice Being Kind – To You
Last week, I wrote about taking the first steps toward self-kindness. It can definitely be a learning curve to practice self-kindness, so this week I’d like to talk about step two: actively creating self-kindness in your mind. Once you start recognizing when you are beating yourself up or judging yourself, you have opened the window… Continue reading Practice Being Kind – To You
What Do You Want Today?
Pain is the ultimate waker-upper. There’s probably a real word for that, but I can’t think of it right now. Waker-upper works, because it’s actually pain’s job description. Whether it’s physical pain, emotional pain, or mental pain, it makes you sit up and take notice. Yeah, I know – what a seriously annoying alarm clock!… Continue reading What Do You Want Today?