Posts filed under: Positive Neuroplasticity

Positive Neuroplasticity

3 Steps to Reclaim Winter and Create Your Best Year Yet

In the northern hemisphere, the New Year lands on the other side of holiday busyness and into the heart of winter. I love the new year – not for its......

Healing the Past – By Reclaiming Your Inner Landscape

Stressful experiences, both chronic and acute, can etch your inner landscape and make their presence known through anxiety, reactivity, judgment, feeling closed off/constricted, or overall feelings of disconnection. Each of......

Developing Resilience During Troubling Times

We are all journeying through uncharted territories.  There is a lot of uncertainty about the future, and regular routines and schedules are gone.  This can all feel ungrounding, unsettling, and......

Spiritual Growth, Nature, and the End of Suffering

How does connecting with nature apply to our spiritual growth and ultimately end internal suffering?  By observing nature, we cultivate more inner stillness and quiet. With this, we become more......

Our rule book no longer applies. It’s outdated.

When someone else’s “rule book” is guiding my decisions, I suffer.  When I am living by outdated rules I have created for myself, I suffer.  If there are “shoulds” in......

Coming Home

When was the last time you felt at “home” in your body…or had that deep down feeling that all was well and you could let go of the reigns and......

Stay Awake

Staying present or “awake” in this world is not easy!  Often our days are filled with routine and habitual actions (or news), that makes it a challenge to be inspired,......

Neuroscience and Nature Connection

This picture is of a spot I go to either be still, find inspiration for something I’m working on, or meeting with a client.  Do you think my ability to......

A Word

I recently took a course with psychotherapist and shaman, Sandra Ingerman.  She shared a powerful, yet simple practice of holding a word within and really feeling it.  Feeling the word......

Dropping Limbs

A magnificent old pecan tree lives in my backyard.  I have personified her as a wise older southern woman- strong and resilient, with sound advice.  I instantly felt drawn to......