Posts Tagged ‘depression’

Meditation For Calming the Mind

This is a partial re-post from a post I wrote months ago and felt the need to post it again due to my “rebirth into balance.” One of the things I had let go for 6 weeks were my meditations. This is a brief explanation of meditation as well as how to meditate.
Enjoy!
MEDITATION
Meditation is sustained [...]

Bathing Away Negative Emotions

My 12 year old came in from school and said he had a bad day and that he “needed” a bath. I realized in that moment how often both of my kids take baths not because they are dirty but because they, “need them.” I thought to myself, how intuitive of them.
As we know, bath [...]

Love Your Food

I remember growing up saying a blessing before we ate our meals. I never quite understood why we did this until a few years ago when I learned the relationship between food and energy.
This is a beautiful excerpt from the book Nourishing Traditions that reminds us the importance of being present in performing every daily [...]

Eat Your Way To Happiness

We all have our bad days. Many times when we are having a bad day we reach for potato chips, ice cream, alcohol or another vice that (temporarily) makes us feel better.    
When we get tripped up and fall into a bad day one idea to get us back into balance is food. Before we [...]

Maintaining Peace Throughout the Holidays. Part I

As the holidays quickly approach, there is a feeling of not only excitement in the air but also the impending dread of cooking for days, shopping with 10 times the people in the stores, driving on the roads with people that are angryand in a hurry and seeing relatives that you  just don’t care to [...]

The Power of Acceptance

When faced with a situation that you cannot control, one that makes you angry, sad depressed or frustrated there is greatpower in acceptance. When finding out your best friend is moving or your husband wants a divorce or a parent is dying our first response is to stop it. After finding ourselves emotionally exhausted, drained [...]