Honestly, by the time we hit 40, most of us haven’t put ourselves first in decades. Not really. And it didn’t happen in one big moment either. It didn’t happen overnight. These are habits that build over the years until we don’t remember life before putting everyone else first. Because that’s the thing about the […]
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There is something profoundly simple and profoundly sacred about the breath. It moves quietly through every moment of our lives. We breathe when we sleep. We breathe when we speak, move, grieve, or celebrate. Most of the time, we do not even notice it. Yet breath is the rhythm that sustains us from the first
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Introduction: Why Gratitude Matters in Healing Gratitude is often spoken of as a soft, almost sentimental practice, such as writing in a journal, saying “thank you,” or pausing to notice beauty. While those practices can be profound, gratitude is much more than a pleasant habit. Science now demonstrates that gratitude has measurable effects on the
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Our ancestors live within us through memories and as energetic and emotional patterns. We are meant to be the embodiment of all our ancestral gifts, but first, we have to traverse the fears held in our lineage. I once heard someone say, “You have to do a lot of your own healing first before you
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I never imagined I could be affected by the trauma of an old war I knew nothing about. The late 1940s and early 50’s were fun times, and my sisters and I were “baby boomers.” Everyone was happy, or so I thought, but when war comes home, its effects can impact multiple generations unless we
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