Blog Topic: Weight
Nutrition Basics for Athletes
Nutrition Basics for Sports Nutrition This podcast offered by renowned sports nutritionist Nancy Clark, RD., is an excellent, grounded source of information. She simplifies the increasing complex world of sports nutrition into basics that work. Nancy says that a...
New Mindful Self-Compassion Teacher
Kristy is a new family doctor in Nanaimo with a strengths based, wellness oriented, trauma informed approach. She trained specifically with a focus on Indigenous health. Kristy took our 8 week Mindful Self-Compassion Training a few years ago, worked the practices into...
How are you doing? What do you need?
Checking in' is a simple mindfulness practice that can help us start to cultivate a kind and loving relationship with ourselves. Try setting a lovely chime on your phone for every hour during the day as a reminder to check in with yourself. Choose a sound that you...
Aimless Love by Billy Collins
This morning as I walked along the lakeshore, I fell in love with a wren and later in the day with a mouse the cat had dropped under the dining room table. In the shadows of an autumn evening, I fell for a seamstress still at her machine in the tailor’s window, and...
Wild Geese by Mary Oliver
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes...
The Watchmaker
https://aeon.co/videos/finding-chaos-and-precision-in-all-things-a-philosophy-of-watchmaking
Mindful Self-Compassion for Health Professionals
MINDFUL SELF-COMPASSION CORE SKILLS TRAINING for HEALTH PROFESSIONALS Saturday May 12th, 2018 9:30 am to 4 pm Bethlehem Retreat Centre, Nanaimo https://tinyurl.com/yczs38ku
Grief, loss and mourning
Grief is everything we think and feel after losing someone or something we love and cherish. Mourning is when we take all the feelings we have inside about our losses (including fear, anger, despair, confusion, overwhelm, regret, shame) and we express them in some way...
Grieving with Mindfulness and Self-Compassion
Sharing this beautiful guided meditation led by Jack Kornfield. May it comfort you through your loss. Mindfulness and Grief Meditation
The Link between Health, Mindfulness and Self-Compassion
Self-criticism does more than make us feel badly. It is actually bad for our health. Self-Criticism activates the nervous threat response system stimulating the hormones designed to help us deal with danger through a 'fight, fight or freeze'. When our threat...