Body Compassion: Using Your Breath to Change Body Image
You can always use your breathe to settle your mind and gently change your relationship to food...
Compassion Makes Us Happier
A study by Lara Aknin and colleagues at the University of British Columbia shows that even in...
Meditation for Compassionate Weight Loss
We live in a 'boot camp' kind of world. Most of us have been taught to motivate ourselves with...
Breaking the Fast
Why I Wake Early by Mary Oliver Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who made the morning and spread...
Body Compassion: Head to Toe Appreciation
This visualization helps you cultivate the skill of appreciating your body from head to toe....
Body Compassion: Is Your Body Image is a Problem?
The short video below asks you to consider these 8 simple questions to help you consider whether...
Afternoon of Life
After I turned 50, I became more aware of the preciousness of life. That there was a time limit on...
Super Simple GF Banana Pancake
My cousin Diana in Australia shared this recipe with me. Mash one banana with 2 eggs. Add a touch...
Body Compassion: Seeing Yourself as You Really Are
There is a kind, gentle way to change bad body image and eating behaviours. Seeing yourself as you...
In These Arms, A Song for All Beings
New Thinking about the Old Food Guide
What a controversial subject! Some people are very reactive to the idea of Canada’s Food Guide...
Grace after Meals…….by John ODonohue
We end this meal with grace. For the joy and nourishment of food, the slowed time away from the...
Ten Secrets to Positive Parenting This ls a great resource to parents of young children. There is...
8 Step Recovery – another way
Book Recommendation: Eight Step Recovery: Using the Buddha’s Teachings to Overcome Addiction Dr....
Gut Problems
There is a fabulous new book out that can help people suffering from IBS. The latest research has...
Read more“Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.”
~Thich Nhat Hanh
Feelings
"Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor." ~Thich Nhat...
Mindfulness Quotes
Waking up this morning, I smile, Twenty four brand new hours are before me. I...
Read moreI can wade Grief –
Whole Pools of it –
I’m used to that –
But the least push of Joy
Breaks up my feet –
And I tip – drunken –
~Poem by Emily Dickinson
Grief…
I can wade Grief - Whole Pools of it - I'm used to that - But the least push of Joy Breaks up my...
Just for Me
What if a poem were just for me? What if I were audience enough because I am, Because this person...
Read more(Poem from An Invitation)
Forgiveness
(Poem from An Invitation) There’s something new about the world the day after it rains. It’s as if...
Hardwiring Happiness
A great way to take charge of your happiness is by rewiring the brain with this 3 step process...
Loving Connected Presence
Mindfulness and compassion are two of the most powerful agents of brain change known to science....
Body Respect Pledge
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Neural Pathways
Neuroplasticity is new brain science that shows we can change our brain's emotional response to...
Shame
Shame is known as the " universal silencer" , It is such an intense emotion, we often try hide it....
Reluctance
Many people are reluctant to practise Self-Compassion. A common misconception id that it is a form...
Read more“A regular practice of meditation reinforces the neural pathways that bring wholeness, while also refusing to strengthen any toxic, self-destructive, or negative pathways. Without such changing of our “software” real and sustained change is almost impossible. ”
~Richard Rohr
Meditation
"A regular practice of meditation reinforces the neural pathways that bring wholeness, while also...
Self-Compassion Break
The Self-Compassion Break is a wonderful meditation to practice when you notice that you’re...
Pope Francis's Ten Happiness Tips
Compassion is a skill that can be learned, practiced and cultivated. However it is not new....
Read more“If there were only two things in the world, mind and body, but no soul, then the mind would not be involved with the body, because it is fixed and emotionless and very distant from physical life. Nor would the body have anything to do with the mind, because by itself it is inept and powerless. It is also far removed from the mind. But if soul is placed between these two, adjusted to the nature of each, then one would easily become involved with the other.”
~Marsilio Ficino Book of Life
Balancing Spirit and Soul
According to Thomas Moore, people struggling with disordered eating behaviours often have...