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Mindfulness for Moms, Caretakers, & Helping Professionals

Yesterday the United States celebrated Mother’s Day, a day which may feel joyful, neutral, or triggering to you, for any number of reasons. Motherhood plays a complex role in our conditioning as women. Without realizing it, this day can trigger into deep wounds around our perceived success or failure in the roles we think we […]

Bringing Mindfulness to Relationships

How does mindfulness impact relationships? Or does it? Some people think of mindfulness practice as a solo-effort. But isolated introspection is only the beginning of the equation. After all, it is fairly easy to attain a sense of peace and centeredness in ideal settings of quiet, comfort, and natural beauty. But how does this practice […]

Fight Anxiety by Using Mindfulness to Find Your Center

Do you ever pause to notice the thoughts that run through your mind when you are full of anxiety? Anxiety can be a blaring, neon-flashing sign, asking us to consider, “Who or what is at my center right now?” Some clues that we have lost our center might be: feeling a state of crisis playing […]

What is the Connection Between Mindfulness & Mental Health?

What are your current perceptions around mental health? What do you do when someone you know or love struggles with their mental health? How “bad” does it need to get before you seek help? And where do you go to find it? At Body Soul School, we view Mindfulness as an incredibly powerful perspective to […]

How Mindfulness Unwinds Perfectionism

This week, Holly offers an 8-minute guided meditation that can help you unwind the perfectionism that may be impacting your life without you even knowing it. How is perfectionism impacting your life? Your relationships? Your home? Your family? Your career? Your moment-to-moment access to joy? How often do you hear internal chatter that says, “What […]

How do I Surrender?

Last week, we discussed surrender in a general sense, leaning to Eckhart Tolle’s definition: “Surrender is the simple, yet profound wisdom of yielding to, rather than opposing, the flow of life.” This week, we talk about logistics. Even when people begin to grasp the concept of surrender, we are often met with some variety of, […]

What is Surrender?

Today’s post is an answer to a common question: What is surrender? It makes sense that we have a hard time grasping this concept–in a culture that exalts goal-setting, progress, and success, surrender doesn’t make much sense. Eckhart Tolle defines it this way: “Surrender is the simple yet profound wisdom of yielding to rather than […]

Balancing self-accountability with self-compassion

Do you ever feel like you swing on a pendulum? On one side, you are IN THE ZONE, going ninety miles-per-hour, pushing yourself to the brink, obsessed with excellence. On the other, you are ZONED OUT, indulging yourself, making excuses, and binging on social media or Netflix. How do we get off the wild pendulum […]

Exploring the Feminine Divine

Last week, the world celebrated International Women’s Day. This week, we want to celebrate the Feminine Divine. Did you know that all human beings have access to both masculine and feminine energies? How does masculine energy typically manifest? Feminine energy? To get curious, all we need to do is look at our own bodies and […]

My Failures Actually Serve Me!

Today, Holly shares a growth-mindset perspective. How do you usually react when personal goals just don’t seem to happen? If you’re like most people, you might feel low and depressed. Maybe your anxiety spirals. Perhaps you get rebellious and defiant. But what if you could change your mindset and turn even your failures into important […]

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