Creating Your Mental Survival Kit: Getting Through a Crisis and Staying Strong, Positive, and Increasing Your Immune Response Through Happiness and Connection
You’ve got your toilet paper. You’ve got your groceries. You’re (hopefully) in a safe place. You are doing social distancing and washing your hands. You’ve done what you can for your physical survival.
But have you thought about how you get through this pandemic mentally? Have you considered what you need to be able to stay positive, focused, and emotionally well?
Here is my seven-step guide to creating your Mental Survival Kit to get through any crisis - even a pandemic - and come out stronger, happier, and more well.
6 Critical Questions to Ask Before You Screw Up Your Life (or Feel Like You Have)
You know that old adage, “Hindsight is 20/20”?
If you’ve ever made a decision which you later regretted, you’ll deeply understand what this means (and may have heard it from more than a few well-meaning people). Faced with the result of a bad choice, you likely grumbled, “If I’d only known then what I know now, I’d never have done it!”
These 6 critical questions will help you avoid major pitfalls, wastes of time, and regrets and help you choose things that are in alignment with the life you desire.
Why It's Critical to Grieve When You’ve Lost Something You Love: 5 Important Steps to Letting Go to Stay Healthy and Whole
If you are alive today, you have experienced the pain of losing something or someone you love. We are often told to hold in grief or that our sadness is ridiculous, especially if we are grieving the loss of a beloved pet or a material object like a house or car. However, in my practice, I see very clearly that unexpressed and unresolved grief causes a host of health issues, from physical issues like high blood pressure and dry eye to mental and spiritual issues like depression, addiction issues, and all-over fatigue. Needless to say, it’s critical that you take the time to fully honor the grief process. Here’s how I did it with a recent loss…I hope it helps you, too.
What’s in a Cold Shoulder? The Mind-Body Message Behind Frigid Sensations and Pain
I’ve been doing this mind-body work for years, but the varied ways the body speaks about what’s off in the mind, body, and life never ceases to amaze me. One woman's cold shoulder taught us all a great deal about how much the body speaks up.
A Mind-Body Look at Shoulder and Neck Pain - Rosario's Story
“What does it mean when you have pain just like she described but on the other side of the body?”
The question comes from a beautiful, silver-haired Latino woman who I will call Rosario. As she finishes asking the question she swallows hard, as if it took a great deal of effort to allow herself to ask it. Find out my answer, and how it was one of the most literal I've ever dealt with.
Guess What? You Don't Need to Be Perfect to Be Worthy (Really)
When you hold yourself up to a perfect ideal, you are telling life that you do not deserve love, respect, or any other good thing unless you meet that ideal. Of course, it is impossible to be perfect, so you end up feeling like a failure because you never get what you want. The good news is that you can change this!
3 Ways to Know that You Are (Finally) Ready to Make a Change
Every person has had that moment where they have decided that they just cannot put up with a situation anymore and must make a change. However, getting to that point - or finally knowing that you are ready - can be challenging. How do you know that you are ready for change? These three signs will tell you: