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Supporting Ourselves and Others with Love Letters
My good friend and Curvy Yoga founder Anna Guest-Jelley recently told me that she reads a love letter before she starts writing. Every morning. It’s a love letter that she penned herself. Because, as...
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Rediscovering and Remembering What We’re Grateful For
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone who’s celebrating! So I was away a bit longer than I thought (apparently revising almost 70,000 words takes some time). But we’ll be back to regular programming next...
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Self-Care Sunday: Disconnecting from Our Devices and Reconnecting to Our Lives
We take our devices—namely our phones—everywhere with us: to dinner, to bed (so they’re the first and last things we see before slumber), even to the bathroom. But at least for me, this is a (too)...
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What Do You Want to Let Into Your Life?
A few weeks ago I wrote this piece about the real reason personal boundaries are powerful: Because they help us define who we are. Boundaries also are “as much about what we let in as what we keep...
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Rewriting Stories that Spike Our Stress, Sink Our Mood and Just Aren’t...
We are constantly spinning stories about ourselves. And many of these stories are negative to the bone. For instance, we might spin global stories like: No one will really love you until, unless you...
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Self-Care Sunday: Embracing and Savoring Life’s Messes
One of my favorite magazines, Bella Grace, asked readers to share the messes they secretly love. Which they featured in a piece in their seventh issue. Which has quickly become one of my favorite...
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Self-Care Sunday: How to Say No (When You Can’t Say No)
The great thing about the word “no” is that behind it there’s always a “yes.” That is, when you say no to something that you really don’t want to do, you say yes to something that you do. You say yes...
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Making Choices from Love, Not Fear
Do any of these experiences sound familiar, whether past or present: You took on jobs that you hated and held onto every dollar you had out of fear of not having enough money. You punished your body...
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20 Questions to Connect with Yourself and Someone Else
Yesterday, Brian and I spent four hours in Barnes & Noble. I’m not exaggerating. We had the best time. While there I picked up a new-to-me magazine called Flow, which is all about “celebrating...
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Dear Girl Who Doesn’t or Didn’t Know Her Worth
Dear Girl Who Doesn’t or Didn’t Know Her Worth, You let others treat you the way they wanted to treat you. Which often only substantiated the darkness you felt about yourself. When people did nice...
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Holding On So Tightly You Can Barely Breathe
You are holding on so tightly. So tightly you can barely breathe. You cling to this something with such force that on some days, it knocks you off your feet. Maybe you can’t focus on much else. Maybe...
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20 More Questions to Connect with Yourself and Someone Else
A few Sundays ago, I shared these 20 questions, which we can ask ourselves and our loved ones. When we ask questions—whether they’re serious or silly—we get to dig deeper. We find out things we never...
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How to Catch Yourself When You’re Falling
There is a beautiful quote from Baal Shem Tov: “Let me fall if I must fall. The one I will become will catch me.” Which always reminds me that we have the power to catch ourselves, even if we don’t...
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Giving Others the Gift of Our Sight
So often what we want most when we’re overwhelmed, afraid, exhausted, lost, a foreigner in our own bodies is to be seen. To be heard. To have another human being understand, really understand, what...
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If No One Told You This Today or Ever
Today, I’m sharing words you might need to hear right now, or words you might need to remember, because you easily forget, or because you’ve never heard them. Words you can say to yourself, because...
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Don’t Forget This About Self-Care
Self-care is a term that gets thrown around a lot. We might think it’s synonymous with bubble baths, manicures and massages. And sometimes self-care might be these things. But at the heart of it, at...
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You Are Not Currency, You Never Were
Many of us think we have to repay anyone who says something nice or complimentary to us, to anyone who takes us to dinner, to anyone who pays attention or is kind in some other way (whether the...
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Sharing Our Shame
I just penned a piece for our main blog about being ourselves, what this really means and what it really looks like. One of the psychologists I interviewed shared this story with me: A young man was...
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A Reminder on Jealousy and Comparing Ourselves
We may be going about our business, and we come across a coworker, parent, writer, blogger, maybe even a stranger who seems to have it all. Maybe we get sucked into their social media feed (for an...
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Fully Feeling and Focusing on Life’s Precious Moments
I just read this wonderful piece by fellow Psych Central blogger Elisha Goldstein. A wise older man told him: “You know, it’s a funny thing about time, you never get it back once it passes.” This...
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