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Do Nothing
When you don't know what to do, the best next step might actually be to INTENTIONALLY choose to do nothing.
What?!
Yes, I know. It sounds a little irresponsible at first...
It might feel weird if you are used to fixing and maneuvering your way out of a sticky situation.
How could you possibly...
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Doing Less to Rest
For those of you conditioned to do more, to squeeze in more, to push yourself when you're exhausted, to "should" on yourself....this is for you.
As scary as it can be to slow down and do less, there's a part of you that's begging you to do so.
Tap along to start teaching the brain to slow down...
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Creating Healthy Boundaries
In learning to honor what we need to feel grounded, we can then show up for our lives and for the ones we love from a place of strength, energy, and enthusiasm.
If you're someone that struggles to say no or feel like you're always putting the needs of others before your own and feel depleted fro...
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Constipation Relief
I know from speaking to so many of you that slow motility, constipation, and the perpetual management of the bowels is something that takes up a lot of mind space. (I get it, I really do.)
I know from personal experience when I lost all gut motility how energy intensive it is to be backed up and...
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Compulsive Habits & Addictions
You know that thing that you keep doing, even when you know you don't want to keep doing it?
It might be compulsively checking your instagram, picking your face, eating when you don't even feel hungry...
It might be compulsively assuming the worst-case scenario, ordering things you don't need, ...
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Chronic Pain Relief
Living with chronic pain/discomfort/inflammation is quite the teacher.
Whether it's chronic joint pain, an injury that still lingers years after the fact, a continually tender belly, hormonal migraines, or mystery aches and pains in odd places, these sensations can feel downright distracting!
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Choosing Connection
Some of you may have learned that you couldn't co-regulate with your caregivers at a very early age: they weren't reliable or consistent, so you had to "survive" in other ways.
This coping pattern can turn into avoidance, self-isolation, shutting down, and even dissociating from our experience...
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Burnout Recovery
You know that feeling when you are just completely pooped? Like even thinking about standing up to grab some water feels like it would take too much energy, energy that seems nowhere near accessible?
Whether you're feeling COMPLETELY BURNT OUT from work, keeping up with the demands of day to day...
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Binge Eating
Anyone that's dealt with binge eating knows how debilitating, isolating, and shameful it can feel.
Especially when we know it doesn't feel good but we've already passed the point of no return. It feels like we JUST. CAN'T. STOP.
Learning to trust the body and honor that it actually might need...
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Accepting What Is
We might find ourselves wishing things were different.
We might stress ourselves out wondering what might've been if only we had _____ or if only we did ______.
What if we can release some of this stress by learning to accept what is? From here we can wisely focus on what we can change in order...
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4-1-8-1
You asked for it....so here's the extended 4-1-8-1 breathing technique.
Feel free to lay down, cozy up with a fluffy blanket, close your eyes, and just follow along to my voice.
I love the idea of letting the breath breathe itself, dropping any thoughts that might come and focusing your attenti...
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Acne
Acne can be aggravating.
It can make us feel overwhelmed, self conscious, hopeless about the state of our health...but does it have to?
Use this video whenever you symptoms associated with breakouts, rashes, eczema flares, etc.
As always, curious how this one goes! After tapping, how do you f...
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Doing Less to Heal
For those of you that feel overwhelmed with your current healing protocol, I had you in mind while filming this one.
I know it can feel like nothing is working and how overwhelming the constant effort to feel better can be.
Without even realizing, our attempts to heal become the biggest stres...
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Fear of Getting Better
Some of you have mentioned that despite wanting nothing more than to feel better, there's fear of responsibility and expectations increasing if you were to suddenly be seen as fully functional and completely capable.
Will I have to work a job I don't like?
Will I suddenly have to live in a way ...
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Fear of Travel
Travel is tricky.
Travel can be especially testing if we are already at full capacity.
Or maybe you've had experiences on the road away from home that didn't feel ideal and it's as if your brain is scared that things will go wrong...because last time they did!
Perhaps we are hanging on to "h...
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Healing Orthorexia
Food fears, orthorexic behaviors, avoiding certain situations due to what we "can" or "can't" eat comes up a lot in the healing space.
Rules start to take over: what was once intuitive & joyful is now measured, rigid, and all-consuming.
The more our metabolism crumbles and the more sensitive an...
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Hair Loss
So many of you have dealt with hair loss on this winding path of recovery.
Whether triggered by a low-carb diet or highly restrictive eating, a stressful lifestyle, a stressful exercise regimen, or even an acutely stressful experience in the far past, hair loss can be frustrating and stress-ind...
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Money Scarcity
Constantly worrying about money, not having enough money, how you'll find a way to make money, what it might mean if you DON'T make enough money? What will happen if...?
What if I have to work a job I hate just to survive?
YOU DID NOT COME HERE JUST TO WORK AND DIE.
Money scarcity and the ove...
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Fear of Running Out of Energy
It's one thing to listen to the body and honor its need to rest, ESPECIALLY when it's coming from a place of honesty and self-respect.
It's an entirely different scenario to avoid doing certain things out of fear that your body can't handle it.
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Assuming the Best Outcome
We can fall into what are called "limbic loops" in which we are literally stuck in a loop of threat as we imagine worst-case scenarios playing out.
It can be TERRIFYING to do even basic things when our brain is fearing all of the negative things that might happen to us playing out as if they a...
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Healing from PTSD
This is a big one, as trauma literally rewires us and shifts us towards hyper-vigilance, panic, impaired immune function, and increased stress reactivity.
Part of healing from complex trauma requires that we widen our window of tolerance: slowly, gently, and taking breaks to integrate often.
Le...
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Reimagining Weight Gain
Many of you have mentioned the frustration of gaining weight in order to heal.
While it is often necessary to gain weight to reach a point of metabolic health and vitality, I want to honor that feeling out of place in your own body can feel triggering and HIGHLY uncomfortable.
If you are dea...
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Research Overwhelm
In our attempts to "heal," we often get trapped in the loop of researching next steps, new treatment protocols, diets, supplements, devices, wondering what the next thing will be that might finally heal us.
This way of being can be stressful in and of itself, as we feel like we need to push hard...
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Releasing Stress & Overwhelm
Stress & overwhelm: two feelings we never feel as humans, right?
If you're like most of us, these feelings tend to come in tandem and can spiral into other states of panic, despair, doubt, exhaustion: it's as if they strengthen one another while depleting us in the process.
Yet, we can learn an...
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Not Worrying What Others Think
Part of learning to stop worrying about what other people think of us is to learn what it feels like to trust ourselves, to like ourselves, and to maybe even smile at what other people might be thinking and still follow what our own hearts are asking for.
Easy, right?
Like many things in life...