Integrated Wisdom

In case you didn’t know, I’ve been offering virtual or online therapy for many years. Now, during Covid-19 shelter in place orders, I am using it every weekday to wonderful results.

Check it out here and give it a try with me.

Last Meditation Workshop in 2019

Date:  October 12, 2019, 1-4 PM Saturday

WORKSHOP – MEDITATE ON PAPER

In this fun and powerful workshop you will learn different ways to access your inner knowing through directed journaling. These methods cut through the chatter and automatic thinking that block your inner wisdom’s understanding and your problem solving ability. These are proven methods, easy to do and you can use them again…

Mindful Classes & Workshops Winter 2019

First let me wish you a very happy, healthy, and rewarding 2019. Remember that each moment is a new beginning, a chance for a fresh start.

Perhaps one or two of my winter offerings will help make it easier for you.

Two-hour workshops on Sundays, 1-3 PM

     Protecting Your Aging Brain– Feb. 24 or March 24

     Mindful Living – Feb. 10 or March 10  This is not a meditation class.

     Meditate on…

How Does Mindfulness Heal Emotional Distress

How does mindfulness heal emotional distress?

The practice of mindfulness teaches you a different way to relate to your thoughts, feelings, and emotions. The key is in learning to approach and acknowledge whatever is happening in the present moment, as it arises, AND setting aside your lens of judgment, and I add, analysis. This will strengthen the connection, which will form the habit or…

Thoughts on journaling mindfully

Have you wondered what is the  difference between journaling mindfully and other forms of journaling? Here’s my view –

Mindful journaling focuses on the present and your experience/perception of it whenever possible. At times when journaling about the past is what is needed then, notice your present experience in writing about this past experience and document it in your journaling too. For…

Is Journaling Really a Good Idea?

This morning, I found myself asking the Universe AGAIN “is journaling really a good idea?” after reading some journaling prompts at random online.

What’s one present you’ve always wanted?   Who were your favorite relatives? What are your best/worst memories of school?    How has art saved you?”

“Did you ever get into trouble?”   What was the saddest moment of your life?   How would you describe…

24/7 Crisis and Suicide Phone & Online

Bookmark this page of 24/7 crisis and suicide phone numbers, chat lines by text and online, and websites of non-profits to contact when in crisis, need to talk or need support and information.

This suicide hotline support: 1-800-273-TALK (8255) and the chat line  https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/

Please call the hotline if you or someone you’re with is talking or thinking about suicide as an…

Making Mindfulness Make Sense

Making mindfulness make sense isn’t easy even though it’s not the least bit complicated.  The thing is, it doesn’t lend itself to words. It has to be experienced because mindfulness is a state of being. It’s not a thought, or a feeling or a doing. It’s being.

So what’s the big deal about being mindful? You get to live your life out-loud, fully entrenched in what comes through your senses and…

Writing Mindfully: a Practical Application

Writing Mindfully: a practical application for everyday living in a mindful manner.

I read a book recently that I’d like to recommend to you, especially if you like to write or are a writer.  Even if you’re not a writer, this book gives a practical evidence of a living mindful. This book is, Fearless Writing,  how to create boldly and write with confidence, by William Kenower.

Kenower speaks…

Meditation Spring Class Starting

Wednesdays from 7-8 PM I’ll be teaching beginners and others how to meditate for mindbody health.  I’ve been teaching my method since 2011 and it’s been successful for many people. You can read their comments and more about this class here

The meditation class begins May 2, 2018 and runs 6 weeks, building and strengthening your meditation practice and your integration of mindful living.

Pre-regis…

Most of the clients I work with suffer anxiety to some degree.  Also, anxiety is part of depressive disorders although it may express more as irritability or worry than the nervousness and physical manifestations usually associated with anxiety. However anxiety or panic shows up, its miserable as anyone whose ever felt it knows.

I tell my clients to do two things when they first begin to feel an…

Sacral and Throat Chakras

The Sacral and Throat Chakras aka Shock-rahs *

Your second chakra, the Sacral and fifth, the Throat (5th) chakra go hand in hand.The throat communicates from the spiritual point of view and the sacral is earth-bound, limited as that is, it’s the center of creativity and birth – the birth of new ideas and human beings. Together, 2 and 5 birth a creation and the manifestation of it.  Together bring…

Building Brain Health through Adult Years

Your brain continues to develop until age 25. You continue building brain health throughout your life including the adult years.

You can do this mindfully with intention and carve your path of choice or you can do it unconsciously and build in obstacles. Listen to this brief video summarizing s your brain health throughout your life including the adult years. even highlights from the Global…

Keep your Heart Chakra Balanced, start this Valentine's Day

Intentionally keeping your Heart chakra in balance this Valentine’s Day can be the start of a new way of being and a new morning ritual.

The heart chakra is the shock-rah of love and emotions connected to loving others and being in a relationship. Love, compassion, relationships of all kinds, not only intimate and besties, forgiveness, tolerance, and understanding, and non-judgmental acceptance…

How Addictions Can Start

How do addictions start?

Some addictions are physical and others are psychological, but over time, it affects both your body and mind. Addictions are repetitive and become hardwired so to speak which involves perpetuating it and making it harder and harder to stop it. There is not one single answer for how addictions start because each person is different and unique in how they respond in their…

Your Brain and Gut Chakras, aka the Sixth and Third Chakras

The Solar Plexus is the third chakra, and the Third Eye is the sixth chakras. The Solar Plexus, or gut, and the Third Eye, or brain, work hand in hand.   It’s important they are in balance, energetically speaking, when  informing each other so you get the clear positive impact of their guidance.

When I teach about chakras, I use the…

Your brain, like your car, needs a good wash, a detox, to remove old or diseased gunk like molecules, cell, and waste that’s accumulated in your brain tissue and networks.

You’re probably aware of the detox your body movement that’s been raging for the last few years. The proponents of it, I’m not one of them, believe that by eating starkly little for a brief period of days or weeks, and then…