Get my FREE Self-Care Toolkit! Self-care is critical to our mental, physical and emotional health. It helps us transition from fight, flight, or freeze into rest and digest (learn more about that here). And because it has such a serious impact on our lives, we often treat it like an incredibly serious thing. But when…
Did you ever wonder why you are always cold, and just can’t seem to get your hands or feet warm? Maybe you struggle to lose or gain weight? Perhaps foods that agreed with you during the winter makes your digestion feel sluggish in summer? Or maybe caffeine makes you jittery and even chocolate can get…
I talk a lot about burnout and being burnt out. But until recently I never considered that many people who are suffering from burnout don’t actually understand that’s what is going on. In our culture of always doing and achieving, we often dismiss and ignore the messages we’re receiving from our body, mind, and spirit…
First, let’s talk about what burnout is before we move into how to avoid it. Picture a kerosene lamp, the old school hurricane style lamps where you twist the knob to raise and lower the wick, increasing or decreasing the flame. You are this lamp, and during your day-to-day life, you burn with a steady…
Get my FREE Self-Care Toolkit! First, there are a few things we need to agree on in order for you to build a self-care routine you will actually implement and stick to. Self-care isn’t selfish This might go against everything you have been conditioned to believe. In our society, and especially as women, we learn…