Incorporating Mindfulness Into Your Life

Incorporating Mindfulness Into Your Life

Imagine a typical morning in a bustling household with a couple of kids. The alarm goes off, and the day begins with a flurry of activity. You're re scrambling to get the kids ready for school, while simultaneously trying to prepare for your own workday. The kitchen...

FEELING STUCK AND ALONE

FEELING STUCK AND ALONE

Growing up, I'd always had a low-level feeling that everything was going to be alright. Don't know why I felt that way, but I called that feeling my pilot lite, always burning strong, keeping things moving in the right direction. But, every now and again, something...

Stressors Vs Stress & Completing the Cycle

Stressors Vs Stress & Completing the Cycle

Are you feeling stressed and discouraged after watching the news? Stressors are everywhere. The state of the world is A LOT right now. You could distract yourself by numbing out, cracking open a beer or a bottle of wine and hope for better days, or you could work...

Cancer – Things Cancer Made Me Say

Cancer – Things Cancer Made Me Say

I remember sitting in a booth across from my husband at a restaurant in our neighbourhood. It was November 9th, 2013. Our first wedding anniversary and I wasn't feeling particularly pumped about it because I was waiting to hear if I had cancer.  Five days before that,...

Lucia Light – the ultimate reset meditation

Lucia Light – the ultimate reset meditation

Wouldn't it be great if there was something out there that could help us meditate? There is and it's called the Lucia Light.  Lucia Light meditation helps to facilitate deep meditation. Meditation has been shown to reduce stress, manage anxiety, promote emotional...

Selftalk and Changing the Brain

Selftalk and Changing the Brain

Selftalk plays an important role in how we view life. In November 2014, about a week after I found out I had cancer, I went to Whistler for a few days.   While in Whistler, I decided to get a tattoo. I'd been thinking about it for a bit but just hadn't done it....

NeuroPlasticity And How To Rewire Your Brain

NeuroPlasticity And How To Rewire Your Brain

Experiential Dependent Neuroplasticity refers to the brain's ability to change in response to experience, repeated stimuli, environmental cues, and learning. We now know that the brain isn’t a fixed organ. We have the ability to learn, grow and make new connections...

MANAGE STRESS WITH LIGHT MEDITATION

MANAGE STRESS WITH LIGHT MEDITATION

This day in age, we're constantly bombarded with stimuli making it increasingly hard to manage stress. Everything from our phones to email to work, family and traffic, its constant. It’s a nonstop stream of information flowing right to our brains. We’re overworked,...

Benefits of meditation – a personal journey

Benefits of meditation – a personal journey

A personal story on the benefits of meditation and how it helped cultivate a path to self-love.  This post started when I was walking to the shops on a Monday this pass summer to buy some groceries for dinner. I looked down and noticed my legs. My initial...

THE WANDERING MIND AND YOU

THE WANDERING MIND AND YOU

Our brains. The amazing brain. The hardware and the control center of our body. The brain manages your ability to think, talk, feel, see, hear, remember things, walk and so much more. It even controls your breathing. In my opinion, it's the most...