August 14, 2018

Light Stream is a short guided meditation that incorporates the healing power of mindfulness, visualization, breathing, and progressive muscle relaxation.  If you're feeling great, this will likely enhance that feeling and add some peace and joy in there too.  If you're feeling anxious, sad, angry, or upset in any way, Light Stream is an excellent way to move through the painful feeling so that you can go about your day feeling lighter and more able to manage difficult emotions.  Check it out when you have 5-10 minutes to sit quietly with your eyes closed without distractions like children, animals, or bosses.

September 01, 2017

Color Ball is another brief guided meditation that helps to contain big feelings that you don't have time or energy to address head-on in the moment.  I call this "healthy compartmentalization" because it's a way to intentionally store challenging emotions in a way that is respectful to the emotion but leaves you in charge of when and how you deal with it.  Give this one a try when you have 5-10 minutes to yourself with limited distractions and the ability to close your eyes and breathe.

September 01, 2017

The link between nutrition and mental health is becoming more and more researched and relevant to helping with symptoms such as anxiety, depression, fatigue, and insomnia.  Many Americans living with anxiety and/or depression are walking around with a deficiency or imbalance in Omega 3s and Vitamin D.  Finding the right supplements at the drug store is overwhelming and confusing, and we usually just take a shot in the dark and hope for the best.  I would like to share with you a nutritional supplement company that I trust for myself and my family called USANA Health Sciences.  All of their supplements are pharmaceutical grade, so you know exactly how much of each ingredient you're getting with each pill.  The stuff you find at the drug store is typically food grade and  and Melatonin supplements are often needed when we suffer from an imbalance