Night-time Rituals For The Highly Sensitive Insomniac

Insomniacs have heard all the suggestions before: Turn off the TV and get off laptops and mobile devices 2-3 hours before bedtime so your body’s melatonin is not suppressed by the blue light they give off Don’t eat a heavy meal right before bedtime Don’t eat any sugar before bedtime Stop caffeine intake by 7pm Try […]

The 5 Physical Pain Archetypes. Which One Are You? (And How To Heal It)

Whenever we experience stress, it’s not just a sympathetic nervous system response of “fight or flight” that we feel emotionally. It’s a full-body experience where we are affected physically, emotionally, spiritually, and energetically. That is, all levels of our being are put on high alert, sending adrenaline into our systems so that we can get […]

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How To Own Your Shit When You Lose Your Shit

You’ve gone and done it. You lost your cool. Life, a person, dreaded event, trigger, or circumstance has become too much, and you’ve just lost your shit. D-R-A-M-A has ensued, and maybe there were a few broken glasses thrown at the wall, choice words were hurled, and doors have been slammed. And you may have […]

How Forgiving Yourself Is The Ultimate Form Of Self-Love (And How To Do It)

I hear people brag about how hard they are on themselves. Like it’s a badge. While it is important to hold a certain standard of what we want to achieve, it does very little for our physical, mental, and spiritual health to berate ourselves for not being better. For not keeping up with the Joneses. […]

How To Energetically Declutter Your Life So You Can Bring In The Good Juju

Many of you may be familiar with Spring Cleaning. You may also know about the kind of cleaning that you do when you’re up at 1:30am with nothing better to do than sit uncomfortably with your nervous thoughts about the next day’s big meeting/performance/date/event, and you might as well scrub that entire stove that’s been crusting over for a month, along […]

5 Non-Traditional Ways To Love Yourself Like A Badass

Self-love.  There are entire sections in the bookstore dedicated to this in the Self-Help section. For a reason! We grow up being taught not to love ourselves – from our nose, to our hair, to our body type, to our gifts, to our voice. The list is endless! We see it reflected in the media, […]

How to be a Goddess even when you Hate your Job article on elephant journal

elephant journal just published my article, “How to be a Goddess even when you Hate your Job“! It’s my first-ever article with them. I jive with their mission: “elephant is dedicated to bringing together those working (and playing) to create enlightened society.” Hey, that’s me! I’ve been hearing a lot of my patients bemoan how […]

Why Epsom Salt Baths Are The Highly Sensitive Person’s BFF

Epsom salt baths have been used for centuries for detoxification and relaxation. However, epsom salt baths are much more powerful than the occasional soothing soak! For the everyday Warrior God/dess, there comes a time when we need to replenish ourselves – on physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual levels. And epsom salt baths are part of […]

5 Ways To Renew Your Goddess Energy (Yes, Even If You’re A Man, And It’s NOT What You Think!)

Goddess Energy resides in us all. Chinese Medicine recognizes that we all have Yin (feminine) and Yang (masculine) components to our being: Yin = internal, soft, cold, heavy, delicate, containing, female Yang = external, upward and outward, hard, hot, loud, dispersing, male To be balanced individuals, it is important to hone, and honor, both aspects, to live […]

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Crystal Work: How To Use Your Crystals

So, let’s say you’ve just purchased, or received, a gorgeous, awe-inspiring crystal geode, single terminated wand, tumbled stone, rough specimen, cluster, sheet, pendant, bracelet, earring set, or amulet. Maybe you may hold it in your hand and feel the energy emanating and jumping out from it. Maybe you’re transfixed with how pretty it is, and you just […]

December 22, 2015 Healing, Healthy Living, Reiki | No Comments