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Summertime means vacations for many women.  Do you tend to be ‘the planner’ in your household? That role has been one I fall easily into as organizing and getting details together to make things happen is a strength of mind. Our strengths also have their ‘weak’...

Happy 2025 Earth Day! This day, to honor our collective home on this planet, there are three Yoga principles that come to my mind: Ahimsa, Asteya, and Brahmacharya. Even though these principles are thousands of years old, they are amazingly relevant to the present....

One of my favorite lines from the Bhagavad Gita states that we alone can be the friend to ourselves or the enemy to ourselves. From last week’s blog, the message was that anxious and uncomfortable emotional reactions don’t need to be fixed. Because when we come at...

I was all set to upload my ‘Part 2’ blog about Yoga of Emotions when life had a different plan that just feels important for me to put out there in the world. I found out a buddy of mine, Kipling, was put down today. Grief. Pain. Sadness, so much sadness. Shots of...

Chances are if you’re feeling stuck right now in anxious reactions, it’s not the first time. And, most likely you’ve tried some things, have some tools that work at times, and you keep on the lookout for new techniques that might get rid of anxiety. This week, several...

Emotional reactions get a bad rap. Most women have been taught at a young age that their emotions don’t matter. When they burst out angrily in a situation or started crying when feeling hurt, many times they are told to control their anger and stop their crying. And...

Anxiety has become a household term. I’ve seen it move from a word that sometimes described nervousness or a form of excitement to becoming the go to word to describe rumination, stress, and worry. The diagnosis from the DSM 5, Psychology’s diagnostic criteria book...

I have made statements in the past that 'worry is the most energy draining emotion...it is wasted energy.’ While this has some truth, it's not the whole story. In fact,  only believing worry is wasted energy creates separation from self, which then increases worry....

I know many women out there have big hearts, care about others, and in the end, just want their loved ones to be happy. I completely understand that. From a young age, I was drawn to helping others and this became a major part of my identity. And it still is - though...