SELF-COMPASSION
Self-Care | 10 Ways How To Do It
Self-care is wildly multi-layered and multi-textured. It’s so far beyond a bubble bath or a manicure as there are no quick fixes for our soul. It’s often only through the absence of something that…
Tending to our tenderest parts | Heart Meditation
More than a little frequently, our miseducation from well-meaning but ill-informed caregivers leaves us ill-equipped to navigate our internal terrain. When it comes to feeling our feelings, we are often fairly clueless. Instead…
Dancing with Disappointment
I don’t know about you, but for me, disappointment has always been one of the most difficult, uninvited visitors of my emotional rainbow. That palpable drop in my stomach, that sensation of lead in…
Three Hard Facts About Healing
Along this rainbow road of recovery I have needed to digest some profoundly unpalatable truths about healing. 1. No one is coming to rescue you. 2. Feelings aren’t facts. 3. Healing is hard. If these are difficult…
Self-Empathy | How to Hold Space for Yourself
Self-empathy is a powerful technique designed to dissolve the shame around self-judgement and judgement of others, around our rage directed outwards and anger turned inwards, and around all our ‘undesirable’ thoughts and feelings.…
Self-Care | More Than Just a Bubble Bath
Self-care is a loving, compassionate journey of self-discovery – the conscious, deliberate attention to our needs and feelings, and the development of ways in which we can tend to them. With the practise…
To Allow or Wallow | What’s the Difference?
To allow or to wallow… what’s the difference? Just one letter. One tiny letter with huge significance. How do we make the distinction between wallowing and allowing our feelings? Should I allow my…
