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9 Daily Ways to Remain Steady in an Unsteady World
Even though many things around us are different, challenging, or undesirable, how do we connect with our sense of center, balance, and calm during unwelcomed times? Here are 9 Daily Ways to Remain Steady in an Unsteady World and a Remaining Steady Daily Worksheet to support you in these daily practices.
Thanks to the Pandemic: Lessons Learned & Unexpected Blessings
After the original fear and stress of the unknown passed, this pandemic has held many lessons and unexpected blessings. It became very clear who and what was most important in life. As human beings, we are meaning-making-machines. How do we make meaning of this pandemic time?
Bibliotherapy: It’s Not Your Money: How to Live Fully from Divine Abundance by Tosha Silver
“The power of constant incoming grace, the joy of receiving, the arrival of synchronicity after synchronicity, like crashing waves onto the sacred shore of your life- now that is true abundance.” Let that settle into your bones.
Lifestyle Series PART 1: Healing and Pain Come from Lifestyle
Not many people show up to therapy stating, “I sleep, eat, breath, and live well plus I’m socially connected, I love my job, and I feel significant and secure.” Instead, I hear things like “I’m lonely, I hate my job, I can’t sleep, I worry, I feel lost, or I’m in crisis.” All these things are about lifestyle. And with intention, insight, and action we can choose a different style of living.
How to Handle Election Week Emotions!
Emotions are always moving and shifting. Trust and know that this will pass. As best as you can, allow and honor your emotions. Be curious and watch how your emotions change.
Bibliotherapy: The Right Book at the Right Time
I often say, “Everything there is to know, it can be found in a book.” The right book at the right time, can be a powerful complement to therapy.
In My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies, Resmaa Manakem, does a deep dive into how racialized trauma impacts white-bodies, black-bodies, and police-bodies. This book offers cognitive history and context for our thinking brains, experiential exercises to explore our emotional and body experiences, and body and breath practices to remember and reclaim our bodies as we move along on our healing journeys.
Dear People Who Are Overwhelmed, Exhausted, and Stressed: ARE YOU USING THIS ONE SIMPLE TECHNIQUE ON THE REGULAR?
Many of us spend our days rushing from one task to the next, not really aware of what’s happening in our bodies. We function on autopilot. We probably don’t invest in exercise or self-care on a daily basis because we don’t have the time! Here’s a technique that can be done in literally a few seconds. Welcome “THE PAUSE.”
6 WAYS TO NAVIGATE PANDEMIC STRESS AND EXHAUSTION
When the pandemic first hit, we were saying things like, “we’re all in this together, remember this is temporary, take one day at a time,” now zoom forward several months and you get a lot of folks that are DONE! Depleted. Exhausted. So over it. And yet, no end in sight for the pandemic. To say the least, this extended time of stress and uncertainty is taking its toll! Here are some practical ways for you to keep navigating these rough times.
Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy
EMDR is able to treat most types of symptoms such as anxiety, grief, and PTSD. It treats you as a whole person. If you are seeking treatment beyond talk therapy, results, and true healing EMDR may be for you. Please contact me for a free consultation to see if EMDR therapy might be a good fit for you!
What’s This Man Have to Do with You?
Absolutely everything! Alfred Alder founded a theory that explains human behavior. We design our concept of self, others, and the world around us and this dictates how we move through life; expressed through our actions, thoughts, and emotions. Cori Hildebrandt, MA is trained as a specialist in Adlerian Psychotherapy and Counseling. It would be her honor to guide you in changing your lifestyle a.k.a. personality with insight and intention.
How Often Do You Do Things in Life Where You Feel Truly Free?
Ecstatic dance, free-form intuitive movement, authentic movement, or however we call it, empowers people of all backgrounds, shapes, and sizes to courageously express themselves in a safe container. How often do you do things in life where you feel truly free? Uninhibited? Safe to explore and accept what is?
What’s in a Name?
As part of my undergrad at UW-Madison, I did a research project on the impact of first names on personality. Our names do impact us and how others perceive us. The same is true for business names. Thus, I was thoughtful about naming Coriander Living Collective. (That guy on the left, he’s a coriander farmer from Tamil Nadu taking his product to market on a moto.)