Hands at Heart Center
Sharing 3 simple grounding exercises to help you pause, get a grip, and continue from a place of calm and centeredness. These practices are helping me calm overwhelm as the hectic holiday season begins to build.
Healing From My Eating Disorder in the Warmth of Hot Yoga
Author and guest contributor Lisabeth Kaeser shares how hot yoga is helping her embrace her strengths and limitations and let go of the belief that she needs to compete to feel complete.
A Picture's Worth a Thousand Lies
As guest contributor Thea Sterling reflects on her 1-year eating disorder recovery anniversary, she opens up about looking at "sick pictures" and celebrates all she has overcome. Learn how Thea is "living visibly" and encouraging others to be resilient and do the same.
Daydreams & Dreams Come True
This past spring I met someone I've admired from a distance for decades. I can still hardly believe she asked me to colead a retreat with her in Tulum, Mexico in March 2017. Talk about a daydream come true! I share that story here, and I invite you to daydream about coming to Mexico with us! (You totally can, you know!)
3 Yoga-Inspired Ways to Deal With Triggering People, Places & Things
Here's 3 yoga-inspired ways that I stay present and peaceful (most of the time) when I am in a triggering situation. I want to share what I've learned with the sincere hope that these approaches help you as well. Give them a try the next time you encounter someone who pushes your buttons.
Why We Need Purpose, Passion and Play in Our Full-Time Lives
Guest contributor Nick Dobkowski couldn't have said it better: "I am a good person who does good things, but I am not so important that I must work all the time to keep my life or the world going. When I rest, the world still turns." Read on to learn how relaxation is the true connection to purpose, passion, and play in our very busy lives.
What Are You Feeding Your Mind?
If we only ask ourselves questions that trap us into negative responses, we will never quite feel secure and happy in our lives. When we feed our minds different thoughts, questions, and words, we open up the opportunity for positive and empowering responses that draw out who we are at our core.
Body Positivity Meets the Fitness World
I had the pleasure of interviewing David Howell, a UK-based physical trainer "in training." David shares his inspiring vision to bring body positivity to the fitness world.
5 Lessons My Daughters Taught Me About Hunger
Between diets, bars, pills, energy drinks, and the general cultural belief that hunger is something to be tamed, I want to scream! My daughters are my greatest role models for how to have a healthy relationship with hunger. Here are five profound lessons they have taught me so far.