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06 Oct

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  Your body buzzes with anxiety during a 3pm wake up.   PMS randomly rears its ugly head weeks before your flow.   Crushing fatigue barges into your 10 am meeting with your kid’s teacher.   The overwhelming need to have sex appears as you prepare dinner for the family, then quickly dissipates as post-digestive allergies kick in (that avocado drove up your histamine levels again).   W.T.F. is going on? You’re 43. You’ve been warned about impending changes to your cycle approaching, but aren’t they still years away? Menopause doesn’t affect women until they’re in the 50s, right?   Yes… and no. Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on how you look at...

25 Sep

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  As a Reiki Master, Menopause Relief Specialist, and Master Hypnotist, I’m no stranger to practices that may seem unconventional. I often help my clients harness the power of various healing modalities to unlock their inner strength and create balance within their lives. One such practice that has recently captured my attention (and made quite a splash in the wellness community) is cold plunging. A Historical Plunge into Cold Therapy   Let's dive into a bit of history first, to understand the roots of this practice. Humans have been using cold water exposure as a health-enhancing method for thousands of years. From the cold...

04 Jul

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 The call of the wild. The hushed whispers of the forest. The ancient secrets in every leaf and petal.   If you've ever felt a magnetic pull towards the natural world, you'll understand my fascination with herbalism. The art of healing through the magic of plants has been around for centuries, used by our ancestors and indigenous cultures worldwide. This allure of understanding nature's pharmacy recently led me to embark on my own journey into the world of herbalism. I’m thrilled to share it with you. Rediscovering a Timeless Tradition Every new plant discovery I make reminds me that herbalism is not a new-age...

01 Jun

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How to Harness Its Power for Optimal Psychological Health   FEAR. It’s the 4-letter word for an emotion that most of us strive to avoid. Playfully representing the common flight reaction, F*ck Everything And Run, fear can cause us to fight unnecessary battles thereby exhausting ourselves and contributing to the development of neuroses over time. Fear also causes many of us to freeze and become stagnant and suffocated in our own lives. While fear has its downsides, it can also be a powerful tool for personal growth and psychological well-being. It’s a necessary survival aid that has supported the propagation of humanity for...

28 Mar

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There are few buzzier words in popular psychology and spirituality than the word Gratitude. These days it seems everyone is talking about the importance of Gratitude for boosting happiness and contentment in their day to day lives. A mere 30-second scroll through Instagram gives the sense that we’re realizing with greater clarity the link between gratitude and happiness.   Indeed positive psychology research shows that gratitude is consistently associated with enhanced joy. But not just that. It also helps increase positive emotions, appreciate the good times, improve health, manage adversity, and cultivate stronger social relationships (1).   Gratitude is a Habit   You may have noticed...

04 Jan

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    I’m glad you’re reading this. While you’ve only just taken in the title at this point, you’ve committed to, at the very least, opening yourself to the possibility that self-confidence is a process, not an innate privilege enjoyed by a few lucky ones. True, some people seem to have been born with a healthy degree of self-esteem, but most of us struggle with this, whether it’s evident to others or not.   I won’t claim to be an expert. But I will share what I’ve learned over the years, both through direct experience with all the comings and goings of life and...

23 Oct

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  Is not getting what you want the key to happiness? It’s a question that sounds counterintuitive to most people, but there is research to suggest that it’s true.   In my work with Reiki and hypnosis, I am regularly confronted with questions about the nature of happiness, life satisfaction, emotions, and more. It seems we’re all looking for a comfortable way to be in this world, to manage our lives, and optimize our outcomes.   The Zen folks will tell you that the secret of the path is that there is no path – we are already here… now. But you and I both...

14 Sep

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How to Leave Your Comfort Zone & Meet Your Truest Self   The Stoics say that discomfort is where learning and growth occur. But we don’t have to subscribe to the ancient philosophy of Stoicism to know that! All of us have experienced challenges in our lives that led us to very good places. Of course, this doesn’t usually happen without a bit of a fight on our end because facing adversity is never pleasant. It’s not until we’re out of the woods of difficulty that we can truly appreciate how much we learned through the sticky process of giving ourselves over...

18 Jul

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(But it is the Easiest & Most Important Thing You’ll Ever Do)   Learning self-love is becoming an increasingly critical task. There’s a shared feeling that we’re moving, evolving, discovering, experiencing life at a rate faster than ever before. Whether or not that’s actually the case, the feeling is there and along with it a requirement to meet life, sometimes as though it were hard work, a mountain to climb, a task to complete, a challenge to overcome.   But as intelligent humans, we know that to arrive is simply to begin again, rather than finish: a new year, a new project, a new moment....