Designs For Wellness

04/29/2020

It makes sense we are mentally tired and not so much physically tired!

This is why you're exhausted just from being alone.

04/19/2020

Very realistic article!

To survive quarantine, you need to change your metrics

04/02/2020

We are allowed to feel how we are feeling. Stop and notice...how do you feel? Slow it down. What messages are coming from your body? Stay with that for twenty seconds and then move on.

Via :

01/26/2020

Oh! This is spot on!

01/22/2020

Healing is happening!

Thought for today... by Tyndal Schreiner.

01/17/2020

Winning!

Do you believe that you have to find a partner in order to enjoy your life? Love is our driving force, the reason we find joy in the smallest things in life, but do we have to settle down just to be like everyone else, even if we do not feel like it? Apparently, we […]

01/01/2020

Thank you Brene!

These aren’t easy for me - especially if being predictable and consistent are important. But I’m going to keep crawling my way back to them in 2020. Especially when I’m tempted to act cool OR choose comfort over that crappy, hard conversation OR when I’m dying to be judge-y and blame-y instead of empathic and compassionate.

I’m going to try a lot of new things in 2020 and that feels scary which is often the necessary springboard for awkward and brave.

It’s easy to get to that place where we only do things that we’re already good at doing. I love that place. But it’s not good for me. So, I’m choosing to go back to the 7th grade cafeteria and carry my tray as best I can given my sweaty hands and anxiety-prone introversion. I need to seek out a couple of new tables with new challenges and opportunities. Dammit.

As far as kindness goes - that will need to start with a healthy dose of self-kindness. I know. Sounds cheesy. But, I’ve learned that it’s easier to dismiss that concept as woo-hoo bu****it than it is to actually practice it. After I wrangle on my oxygen mask, I’m committed to extending that same imperfect grace to others. I’ve learned that gasping for air while volunteering to give others CPR is not heroic. It’s suffocation by resentment.

As we shut down 2019 and welcome 2020, I want to thank all of you for your support, questions, challenges, teaching, and community-building.

We don’t need to do awkward, brave, and kind alone. We were never meant to.

12/31/2019

Honoring 2019!

12/30/2019

Wow, what a true statement!

Writing a book like the is a walk IN my story, up a mountain, across hot coals and finishing . I no longer apologize for who I am, or hide and change to make others more comfortable. I am grateful for all the pain... for THIS story is mine. #🐈🥑🤡🚘

12/10/2019

Back to the "blank slate"!

12/08/2019

This is why somatic therapy is critical for recovery!

Trauma can actually alter the function of your brain during the stressful event and result in lasting changes in certain brain areas. These changes can impair cognitive function and memory encoding at the moment and memory recall in the future.