Category: Self-Care

  • new.

    When we attune to a balanced state of well-being, we access the whole of who we are. We create our next steps. We create a sense of our desired outcomes. We ponder and reflect on how we desire to show up and express ourselves. The source of well-being is abundant. It can’t be limited, but we can limit our access…

  • resistance.

    We are wired for advancement. Staying stuck in the same thinking, that creates the same outcomes, does not lead to sustainable change. Discomfort is a function of existence. It gets our attention. We grow each time we move toward it.

  • fresh.

    Fresh and New. Fresh and new. fresh and new. (capitals make me crazy…and commas,…,…,…,) April blog. New theme.   In December, I decided I was going to create an online course every month. I also chose themes for each month based on the first thought I had about the time of year.  I like ‘fresh and […]

  • balance.

    I just did this again yesterday as I was thinking about today’s blog. It’s easy to get stuck on what you don’t want. The only reason we don’t want anything is because there is a something more, the opposite – what we do want. When we can catch this, we can choose to focus on what we do want. In…

  • belly.

    Well-being is an experience. Knowing one’s personal felt experience and the results that come when practicing skills, tools, and strategies is one thing; transferring that experience in a way that engages others with something that is relevant and easy to understand and apply, can be a bit of a challenge.

  • anticipate.

    If you are like me, you may consider life’s non preferred situations, circumstances, and events to be quite the bother, inconvenient at best.

  • vulnerable.

    Keeley was not the first story I told about love. I had a Grandma. In the busy in-and-out of life as a teenager/early 20’s, coming home for holiday and summer breaks, I would often tell this Grandma when she was around, ‘I love you’. She would respond, ‘no you don’t’.

  • love.

    It was exactly what I needed to grasp the broad view of not only what it meant to be a school mental health provider, but what it meant to trust love.

  • hickenlooper

    It’s easy to get caught up in a self-promoting or self-righteous state under the influence of good intention.

  • self-awareness

    I am certain that there is no greater skill to improve your general state of being: more satisfied, more in control, more creative, more open, more free, more (fill in the blank)…