A Quick Grounding Exercise

Hey there! Try this! Let me know if this helps to ground you in the present moment. Name… I’ll go first. In demonstrating this for you, you might be able to guess what I’m doing: I’m munching on carrots and hummus. 🙂 This grounding activity is an exercise towards building mindfulness, which has been researched…

Video: Paraverbal language– how to calm yourself

In a high-stress pandemic, paying attention to these three things might help bring peace to you and/or to others. These are: These three things make up what is known as paraverbal language. Here is a video I made last week about it: The takeaway here is that the way you speak can make both the…

Self-care today

Ask yourself right now, what is one thing you are able to do today to take care of yourself? For me, one thing is letting myself feel what I feel. That one thing might change from day to day, from person to person. What is one thing for you? Jesus, please calm our bodies, strengthen…

p-e-a-c-e

praying for an abundance of peace. inside of us, outside of us, around us. and that are fears will be silenced. A year or so after my accident (when I was well enough to try to finish my last year of college), I remember sharing with my friends, I wish I were still back at…

calm in the storm

My friend wrote a song, and the chorus goes, Let justice flow down like water. He wrote it 10 years ago, but sung it publicly for the first time last weekend. I’ve been singing it all week, and crying too. Because I feel like our world as it is now can be so far from…

I Can Take Care of Myself

Running handsfree and circuit training at the gym. These are two activities that I looooove and that I used to engage in on a regular basis before baby girl arrived. But, now, my go-to self-care activities need to look different, haha– but really… if I’m gonna do them! Yesterday, I tried a new thing: I…

Young Mom-ing is Clunky

I took a big step to do something that I’m passionate about: I went to a blogging conference in LA. And yes, I am a breastfeeding mom, and our 7 week old stayed home with her dad and grandpa… for almost 12 hours. A big exhausting empowering step. Let’s normalize some feelings about new motherhood,…