Tag: Wellbeing
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The healing capacity within your voice
and finding the bravery to use it My early experience of using voice – outside of talking and in a non-performative way – was as a teenager in yoga. The serene ambiance was shattered by fits of laughter shared between my best friend and me as we attempted the closing Om chant. This led to…
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Why your stress management isn’t working & what you can do about it
What role does stress and anxiety currently play in your life? What are your ways of managing it, and are they working? Chances are, like most of us, your coping strategy will include some form of numbing or masking. Numbing includes things like binge-watching or doom scrolling as a form of distraction. This is another…
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The link between our breath, mental health and emotions: a somatic interpretation of the nervous system
If you think to any past experience of deep emotion, your breath would have shifted in response. Be it a gasp in shock, a sob in grief, or an inhale in excitement, your breath would have changed. Those heart racing, eyes leaking, belly flipping things we call the feels, it all changes our breath. In…
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How Every Single Human SHOULD Be Making Use of Lockdown
So the world comes to a standstill. Fishes reappear in the lakes, dolphins in the sea, birds in the sky. It turns out, after all, the Dodo wasn’t actually extinct and we all feel like we have been sent to our rooms to think long and hard about what we have done. With an abundance…
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On The Twelve Days of Lockdown Corona Gave to Me…
It seems like a few weeks ago it was corona who? And now you cannot go more than 30 minutes without it being the main topic of an uncomfortable conversation. It’s a scary and uncertain time and a lot of us feel lost as we move into a situation we have never experienced before, understandably…
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What a breakdown in rush hour will do for you
I don’t believe in bad luck.I don’t enjoy, although I am no stranger to, a pity party.Bad things have to happen in order for us to experience good and without the bad days, there wouldn’t be the good ones. When I found my cars wing mirror torn off from its hinges this morning, I don’t…
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Can you love your body and also love wine?
As you scroll through your news feed, everyone stating their 2019 achievements and how it has been ‘the best year yet’ you can’t help compare. Truth is, for most, it probably wasn’t the ‘best year‘. There may have been ‘best parts’ but in 365 days, the chances are, some wouldn’t have been ‘your best’. Some…
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