Emotions are building blocks giving color, clarity, and depth to life! Winter season seems more deeply connected to “heavier” negative feelings than other seasons in part due to shorter daylight hours along with colder, darker days. During Winter for some of us, our psyches take on a “weather-related” heaviness bringing change to our moods, energy …
Our minds are tricky things And when it comes to coping with emotional situations, they don’t do us any favors. On a biological level, stress causes an increase in cortisol, a hormone that’s been linked to appetite. So, when you run to the freezer for that pint of ice cream after a tough day, your …
The Wellness Universe presents Resilience for Harmony: Tools, Tips, and Exercises for Well-being, produced, created, and hosted by Leah Skurdal, featuring esteemed speakers in the self-care industry: Carol Pilkington, Carolyn McGee, Debbie Prediger, Nicole Batiste, and David McLeod sharing self-care resources and how to fortify your resilience. Introducing Featured Resilience Speaker … Debbie Prediger Part 4/5 …
You may have experienced a physical challenge, upset, or trauma in your life. Chances are you have. But are you aware of the emotions attached to what happened? Sometimes the emotions we go through are obvious and others are not so obvious. We recognize the obvious, for example: Grief comes with loss. Heartbreak comes with …
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Social media has grown to be such a large influence on our world. Part of the impact of the enormity is that many of us now believe the fallacies of “the bigger the platform the better,” “my influence is only powerful when I have a lot of followers and engagement,” and “I can only show …
Negative emotions like guilt and shame, when carried and felt for 15 days out of thirty for three months or more, become a form of chronic pain. Emotions are what we feel, not who we are Emotions are what we feel, not who we are. Yet we allow them to dictate who we are, how …
Healing the Chronic Emotional Pain of Guilt and Shame Read More »
The Akashic Masters continue to remind me that it is time for an upgrade. One of the ways we can achieve this is to stop insisting that the reason we tell ourselves we’re doing something is the whole truth. Doing so often leads to disappointment when it doesn’t yield the results we expected. When we …
Where You’re Going May Not Be for the Reason You Think Read More »
Many of you are angry with the world; angry with your spouse or partner; your children; your boss; even yourself. What is the source of your anger? You may think it is because of something that is happening outside of yourself, and we are here to tell you that all anger, just like every other …
Messages from the Light – Where Does Anger Come From? Read More »
Manipulation is either passive or aggressive—the threat of taking something (like love or a relationship) away, or the promise of doing something that affects us negatively. Take time to identify the manipulation you experience. Are okay with these things happening? If not, identify what you’d like to experience instead. How can you create that for …
Chronic pain is misunderstood My experience of talking with thousands of chronic pain sufferers is that the voice of chronic pain is misunderstood or not heard at all. In chronic pain, we tend to speak from one of two extremes: we either constantly complain or remain silent. I have done my best to give voice …
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