Finding your voice

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Building Your Community of Highly Sensitive Women

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Building Your Community of Highly Sensitive Women

The practice of self-compassion encourages us to accept ourselves and our imperfections with loving kindness, as we would accept a loved one or dear friend. The practice embraces that we’re all human and, as humans, we experience joy and sorrow. We succeed and we fail.

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Self-Compassion for Highly Sensitive Women

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Self-Compassion for Highly Sensitive Women

As a highly sensitive woman, it's important to practice self-compassion to navigate the world with greater ease and care for your emotional well-being.

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IFS: What it Is and Who it's For

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IFS: What it Is and Who it's For

Each time you fall back into old patterns, behaviors, or ways of being you might wonder if this will ever end. You might be asking yourself, “Will there be a time when I don’t make the same mistakes, or think the same things, or do the same things?”  Will I ever fully heal?”

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Feeling Stuck and Unfulfilled: Longing for Deeper Connection

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Feeling Stuck and Unfulfilled: Longing for Deeper Connection

Midlife is a wonderful time for reflection. We’ve made it here. We’re looking back at where we came from and ahead to what’s next.

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Expressive Arts Approaches for Managing Anxiety

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Expressive Arts Approaches for Managing Anxiety

One of the tools that I have always turned to for life’s stressors is artmaking and journaling. I don’t consider myself to be particularly skillful at either; rather, I approach them as an opportunity to express and release the energy bound within.

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The Power of Practicing Gratitude

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The Power of Practicing Gratitude

I find that gratitude and mindfulness practices can complement each other. When I’m mindful of my surroundings I’m also feeling grateful for the things I’m noticing, like the sound of the wind in the tress, or the feeling of my dog’s soft ears, or the way the sun makes shadows on the walls in my home.

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Explore Your Inner World Through Journaling

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There’s something comforting about knowing that my experiences are logged into notebooks that I can go back to anytime. And research shows that journaling improves our mental and physical well-being and our cognitive abilities. 

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How to Manage Holiday Expectations

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How to Manage Holiday Expectations

Perfectionism and having high expectations are a couple of ways we try to manage our anxiety about things we can’t control. We tell ourselves that if nothing goes wrong, then we won’t feel bad, things won’t be uncomfortable, nothing will derail the holiday spirit.

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Find the Peace Within You

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