In Life Now

Rachel Gobar-- owner of In Life Now Her traditional degrees and educational background are within Creative Writing and Biology. Ms.

Rachel teaches meditation as a form of mind training to help with behavior and engender emotional growth through various exercises. She studied both at New York University and then Kansas University. She has studied under a shaman from the Apache tribe as well as a Tibetan Buddhist lama. She has also worked with both Christian priests as well as those within esoteric Judaism. Gobar studied and practiced different forms of meditation since the age of thirteen. Currently she helps clients with addictive behaviors, trauma, spiritual growth, cancer patients, and mothers coping with pregnancy and raising children. She uses a variety of techniques tailored to meet each individual's needs. Emotions can be experienced partly as bodily sensations (e.g., we may feel fear in our stomachs, or anger in our hands), influenced as well by our beliefs. Often we are tempted to push away emotions that we don't like. But this rarely works and will manifest in unhealthy ways. What does work is to build a relationship with our emotions using the body as a communication tool. The goal is to evolve emotional awareness and intelligence within us. We are not taught how to grow emotionally at different developmental stages. Unfortunately, most of us learn to react to our feelings from those around us and quite often, those around us are not taught how to deal with their emotions. Meditation or mind training is a way to help build awareness and development within this area. Ultimately, it is a way to build dialogue between the subconscious and conscious mind using the body, because the body will never lie to you. There are several methods of mind training. All these methods work in a symbiotic relationship with traditional therapy.

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11/01/2025

Smiling even when you’re not genuinely happy can actually make you feel happier.

This is due to the facial feedback hypothesis, which suggests that facial expressions send signals to your brain that influence emotions. When you smile, your brain releases dopamine and serotonin, the same “feel-good” chemicals linked to real happiness.

So, forcing a smile can trick your brain into improving your mood, even in stressful situations.

Source:University of Kansas Study

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“My dad left me. I was mocked for my body. And yet, I filled stadiums singing about the very things that once broke me.”

I grew up in a poor neighborhood in Tottenham, London.
My mum was a teenager when she had me — she worked tirelessly as a cleaner just to keep food on the table.
My dad… he simply walked away. He disappeared.

For years, every time I saw a friend with her father, a deep emptiness grew inside me — a pain sharper than hunger.
When I was 9, I discovered that my voice was different.
By 14, I was writing songs to heal what tears couldn’t.

I never fit the “perfect” mold the music industry wanted.
I was told I was too big, that I couldn’t be sold, that my image didn’t work.
Once, a producer told me straight to my face: “You’ve got the voice, but you don’t look like a star.”
I swallowed that pain whole.

I’d cry locked in the bathroom… then walk out with new lyrics, stronger, fiercer.
I wrote my first album with a broken heart, and my second with a shattered soul — and both became massive successes.

But not everything was a fairytale.
I lost my voice mid-tour and had to undergo vocal cord surgery.
I was terrified I might never sing again.
Then came heartbreak, panic attacks that stole my breath, and nights where I felt I might drown in my own silence.

I found refuge in my son, in therapy, and in music.
I didn’t rebuild overnight.
I rebuilt by singing — note by note, tear by tear.

“Feeling broken doesn’t make you weak. What truly matters is what you do with those pieces.”
— Adele

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You are responsible for your peace, your growth, your rest, and your healing. These aren’t luxuries. They’re daily commitments to yourself.

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