I’m taking a year-long leadership course in understanding and working with Collective Trauma so I’m reading everything I can get my hands on related to the topic. Not all books on this topic are easy to read or follow but because Prentis is a trained clinical psychologist and devoted meditator and somatic practitioner, the practices […]
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I was getting a blood test, and the nurse said, “Your veins are tiny,” and I replied, “Oh, sorry.” I later wondered why I apologized for my body’s natural state. Last night I underestimated dinner prep time, causing a fifteen-minute delay, and apologized twice to my husband for being so late. He was chilling, reading,
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Ever since I saw the movie Pretty in Pink, I’ve been fascinated with reusing and repurposing clothes. I had the most fabulous opportunity this week to go to a “designer repurposing event” and got to bring in an old denim jacket that I never wear anymore to have it refreshed by designer Simon Ungless, who
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Paul and I were delighted to spend a week in Yosemite in May. It was the first time we were there without a fire going on and with the waterfalls in full force. We hiked to the top of Nevada Falls and kept our eyes open for bears. If you haven’t been to Yosemite, I
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This year, the summer solstice was on June 20 at exactly 1:50 p.m. PDT. One of Earth’s poles has its maximum tilt toward the Sun and we experience the longest amount of sunlight. June is also Pride Month and the month we honor and celebrate Juneteenth. Much like the Earth and Sun’s interdependence, June can
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With longer days, it’s a great time of year to shed extra light on what matters most to us and implement changes and habits that keep us aligned and healthy. Last month with friends, I started doing the exercises in The Life Brief. Some have said this is the book you should read after James
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You hop in your car after having lunch with a friend and start replaying the conversation in your head. You wonder if that joke you said landed wrong. You notice that she didn’t really laugh when you said it. You start to worry. You text your friend (at a stoplight, of course—not while driving). “It
Second Guessing Yourself After an Interaction? Tame Your Thoughts with 6 Steps. Read More »
I learned to sew when I was in fifth grade, and I never stopped. My eighth-grade graduation present was a sewing machine, and I quickly turned into Molly Ringwald in Pretty in Pink and made all my own clothes during high school. When I turned sixteen and was able to get my first paying job,
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“After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on most measures. Why?” The Anxious Generation author Jonathan Haidt has answered this question with his fascinating book about why children need play and
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How would you feel if you found out that an employee had framed a handwritten note from you? That it was so meaningful to them, they wanted to cherish that memory every day? It would be enough to make you pause and want to sit with the emotion that went into that gesture. Do you
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