In our busy lives and schedules we’re often looking for ways to shift what’s already there and find the smallest ways to fit more in. We cram our calendars until we’re exhausted, exerting much of our creative energy in playing Tetris in our dayplanners rather than other creative endeavors (imagine what we’re robbing the art world of!). 

Within the 8 limbs of yoga, the physical yoga practice is actually meant to help you prepare for meditation. Movement makes meditation practice more accessible (think of it like getting your wiggles out first), and if you’re not into yoga, any kind of movement can work. It also helps to drop any expectations. Loudly. And with a thud if you can.

We give our time and energy so readily to many other things that we find worthy without a second thought. Let’s learn from that. Own your worthiness and show yourself that you mean it by investing your own time and energy in you.

Mindfulness shows us a wider, bigger truth: the universal law of giving and receiving. Everything is an exchange that requires balance. You taking care of yourself keeps the universe (and the YOU-niverse) in balance.

Let my discomfort and body aggravation be loud enough for us all to remember: keep your small pockets of self care at the forefront because they create BIG goodness.

It’s really easy to confuse brain business with body presence. Brain business (or brain presence, if you will) is you trying to tangle intellectually with whatever’s happening — trying to puzzle over it, work it out, or solve it. Body presence is literally being with it. Noticing the sensation and your breath, and then whatever happens next. Not trying to exert force or make it into anything in particular. It’s riding the wave with wide open inner eyes.

It can be challenging to sit with yourself in your own home, doused in chores-to-be-done and essence-of-busy-life. If, despite your efforts, you are finding yourself mid-hullabaloo, a little frantic, and/or struggling to connect with yourself, it might be time to observe where your attention is going, particularly when you’re actively engaged in a mindfulness practice.

This week’s Mindful Morsel focuses on how oxytocin-producing activities are a win for proactive self care. Cheers for doing the pleasurable things in life ⭐

Created in good energy💚

Shifting into Mindful Morsels: tasty nuggets to help us sprinkle more mindful moments throughout our days (with hopes that the snowball effect will work in our favor).

This week’s Mindful Morsel is a reminder to walk away. We all need purposeful breaks to unplug, recharge, and breathe. Physically get up and move to a new environment.

Created in good energy💚

This week’s Mindful Musing is a bite-sized reminder to ask for what you need — give people a chance to help, and show yourself love by speaking up.

Created with good energy💚

This week, I’m practicing honoring where I’m at energetically with a little more peace by noticing when I’m judging myself and instead telling myself (out loud) to drop the imaginary yardstick.

Let this Mindful Musing be a pulse check - are you bypassing and avoiding or honoring where you’re at?

With tender and empathetic energy💚

My patience has been short lately, particularly around my daughter. Parenthood is hectic and trying at times, but the root of the problem is how I’m reacting to my own feelings — shifting blame and responsibility outside of myself.

This week’s Mindful Musing is a reminder to look inward. To pause and breathe. And to once again visit the whimsical land of proactive self care, so that we may love ourselves and others more fully.

In good energy 💚

My relationship with sleep is a tense one, and it’s one of the top things I experience shame and guilt around.

I’ve created the circumstances that limit the number of hours I sleep, and this affects my quality of life everyday. Now I’m experimenting in a new way to see how I can remedy that.

I offer you this week's Mindful Musing as an invitation to relate, find inspiration, and reflect on what you might be brave enough to experiment with.

With rejuvenating good energy 💚

If you're feeling triggered, numb, or stuck in overwhelm from witnessing all that is going on in the world --- me too.

I offer you this week's Mindful Musing as an invitation to focus on self care basics to build a strong foundation for yourself, promote regulation, and create change in accessible ways.

With tender good energy 💚

find some pockets of time and space to practice mindfulness before the big moments when you really need it

can't seem to quiet your mind during yoga or meditation? me either.

wtf is a quiet mind anyway?

sometimes we let our supportive practices slip 🫤 --- can we use these as learning opportunities to grow?