15 Ways to Soothe Your Anxiety, Stay Connected, and Be Nourished
These are unusual and unprecedented times. Our collective and personal anxiety is up. Here are 15 ways to help soothe your anxiety, stay connected (to your heart, your dear ones, and humanity), and be nourished (mind, body, soul): Wake up and mediate with me (online...
Bringing out the best in humanity
With the coronavirus outbreak, there’s so much that can feel out of our control. There are many unknowns. Yet this time can be an OPPORTUNITY to bring out the best of humanity: - to take care of ourselves in ways that are truly nourishing - like slowing down to notice...
What if you were 10% braver?
In winter 2018/2019, I was feeling stuck and stagnant. I craved a new adventure – a physical challenge and a lift for my spirit. One day, my son asked if I wanted to go snowboarding. “Hmmm,” I thought, “Maybe this was the adventure I was craving.” But I had never...
With You
With You Maybe the Universe is asking you to trust even more deeply to surrender even more fully to not know and still take a leap into the darkness and find that not only do you have wings but a thousand angels and ancestors are with you. Lisa McCrohan, MA, LCSW-C,...
Self-Love
Self-Love Maybe you don’t have to do so much, try so hard, expend so much energy trying to keep everything together. Maybe you are carrying too much - much more than is humanly possible. Maybe it’s time to go easy on yourself - to be gentle, to soften the...
I am here with you. You are not alone.
Having the courage to pause and care communicates a message that humanity needs to hear. “I am here with you. You are not alone” can be enough to bring calm in a crisis, hope in despair, and light in the darkness.
No Longer Waiting
No Longer Waiting When you are so done with waiting for change just to happen, you finally realize that YOU are the change. Instead of waiting for anyone else to do something differently, instead of playing victim, instead of waiting to be rescued, you decide it’s so...
Hope
Hope When there seems no other way but through the darkness when the light of hope flickers out when you wonder how you will make it through or if you will ever be happy again Please, take my hand. I will lend you my hope. I will bring you flowers and I will empty the...
How to love your inner critic and still create what you were born to create
So...I can't keep it in anymore! And it's time to share: I'm writing a second book! I've BEEN writing it this whole year -- discerning, listening, scribbling down notes as ideas come to me, and writing in between work and family life. But this month, it became...
Decoding Your Teen: understanding your teen’s subtle bid for connection and how to respond with presence and compassion
The other night I was in my office finishing up some work. It was right before bedtime. My almost-teenager came into the room and sat down on the couch. “Hey, mom,” he said. I had work to finish up, but this time, I knew what was happening here and I didn’t want to...