Blog Topic: Weight
It’s Going to Be Alright
Mindfulness Meditation Training for Teens I love this program designed to help give teens the skills for managing themselves during difficult times including dealing with anxiety, depression, stress, relationships or family issues. The meditations are simple, short,...
Mindful Self-Compassion Training 8 week program starting in Nanaimo and Vancouver January 2016
Self-Care in the Moment
3 Components of Self-Compassion
Self-Kindness vs Self-Judgment With Self-Compassion, we treat ourselves with the same care, kindness and understanding we offer to a friend we cared about. This is a radical concept because often we are quite cruel to ourselves - especially when we mess up. Common...
Pain by David Whyte
PAIN is the doorway to the here and now. Physical or emotional pain is an ultimate form of ground, saying, to each of us, in effect, there is no other place than this place, no other body than this body, no other limb or joint or pang or sharpness or heartbreak but...
Self-Compassion Cards
Orders are coming in from all over the world for our new Self-Compassion Cards. It is so exciting to connect with others who are interested in cultivating a more compassion world (inside ourselves and out). It reminds me of our common humanity. For more information...
Self-Love
To be honest, it has taken me a long time. And continues to be a daily practice. MSC teaches that self-compassion is a strength and a skill anyone can learn. Mindful Self-Compassion Training is designed to help us learn about, cultivate and integrate self-compassion...
When it comes to healing…
...let’s remember that when it comes to healing, our symptoms and negative behaviors don’t want to be fixed, they want to be heard. They want to have space. They want to be honored and explored in their complexity, and in their divinity. From this space of radical...
Making Compassion a Verb and a Movement
COMPASSION IT is a nonprofit organization and social movement that inspires compassionate actions in the lives of every person we reach. When you "compassion it" in your daily life, you can positively impact the entire world. With something as simple as a smile to a...
Trauma and Digestion
Stress and trauma shut down the digestive system so we can deal with what we need to deal with to keep us safe in the moment. This is a good thing. But ongoing stress and post traumatic stress causing ongoing inhibition of our digestive system causes gas, bloating,...