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Recovering From Traumatic and Stressful Experiences
Are you having trouble recovering from something intense? It’s not realistic to bounce back immediately—especially for those of us with big hearts and sensitive systems. No matter what we need or how long it takes to heal, compassion is key.
Getting Cozy to Relieve Stress and Anxiety
Learn why coziness activates our ventral vagal state to help us feel warm, connected, regulated, content, and safe. Coziness isn’t just for fun—it helps alieviate stress and anxiety.
Overwhelm Isn't a Personal Failing
Overwhelm isn’t a personal failing. It’s a healthy response to an overly demanding world full of broken systems and backwards priorities. Here’s how I’m taking the shame out of my overwhelm and supporting myself through it.
How to Rest an Overactive Mind
How would our lives change if we did less thinking? What if we only relied on our brains when we actually had a problem to solve? In this post, I offer a couple alternatives to overanalyzing. Audio version available.
6 Practices for Lowering the Bar and Living More Sustainably
If you’re always striving to meet impossible standards, I suggest gently starting to lower your expectations and increase your resources. Here are six ways to practice both. Audio version available.
When Our Resources Don’t Match Our Ambitions
At what cost do we ignore our exhaustion? What’s the price of starting every over-scheduled day in a state of deep deficit? What happens when we rarely have the resources to meet our ambitions? Audio version available.
When to Take a Break From Self-Care Techniques
I’m a firm believer in having a treasure chest full of self-care tools. However, sometimes we use these tools to escape, shame, isolate, or put further pressure on ourselves. There are times when it’s best to step away from the bag of tricks and just be human. Audio version available.
Resting to Resist Hustle Culture
We’re a product of hustle culture—where productivity is more important than wellbeing. Tricia Hersey is inviting us to rest because it’s our divine right, and because it will change the world. Audio version available.
Overwhelm and the Curse of "Having Potential"
Feeling overwhelmed? If you’re anything like me, you might still trying to live up to your “potential.” What are we trying to prove by always volunteering or going above and beyond…and how do we find peace? Audio version available.
17 Ways to Support Rest & Recovery
Building in recovery time is vital for our wellbeing. But how do we recover when what we need is constantly changing? Here are a few tips for rest and recovery. Audio version available.
Making Space to Recover
Our bodies require regular, built-in recovery time. We aren’t meant to work, give, and perform at a high level around the clock. Audio version available.
How to Cope Through Rough Times
Day-to-day coping can be a huge challenge when you’re having a hard time. Here I share some practical things to try when you're in a tough place. Audio version available.
When a Bad Mood is Telling You Something
I’ve been in a Funk, and it feels exactly appropriate. Instead of trying to fix it, I’m listening. My bad mood is telling the truth about how broken the world is. Audio version available.
8 Ways To Cope With Stress
Sometimes life requires you to keep going, even when you're really struggling. These 8 practical techniques can help you regulate your nervous system during stressful moments. Audio version available.
I’m writing a book!
I’m writing a book, and here’s a sneak peek! It's a practical guide to help stressed-out humans stop pushing and start living. In the real world, there’s no one-size-fits-all approach for coping with stress. Unlike conventional self-help, this book honors that we all have different bodies, moods, trauma histories, and circumstances. Using science and soul, I share dozens of diverse stress relief techniques you can explore in under 5 minutes.
[Meditation] Turning Global Heartbreak Into Focused Action
This 8-minute guided practice by Quinn Corte helps you transform your heartbreak and anger about injustices and tragedies in the world. You'll identify action steps that both fill a certain need and align with your unique capacity and gifts.
10 Care Tips for Election Week (and beyond)
A lot of us are super-duper emotionally invested in the US election, and it feels very personal and very triggering. Whatever you are or aren't feeling is perfect. You aren't alone and you are doing great.
Here are 10 gentle suggestions for how to care for yourself and others this week (and always).
[Meditation] Grounding and Surrender
This is a 10-minute guided meditation by Quinn Corte to help you ground and surrender when your mind is overly active or worrying about what you can't control. We practice rooting into our body and the earth and gently releasing the tension in our bodies and minds.
5 Ways to Transform Worry
In this post, I share techniques and resources that helped me transform my worry this past year. I talk about moving worry through the body, making worry into an offering. taking intentional action, reframing worry as trust, and offering acts of self-kindness to the world. Audio version available.
Understanding Worry
There is SO much to worry about right now, collectively and personally. Instead of numbing out, berating ourselves, or feeling completely panicked and unhealthy, let’s explore the meaning beneath worry. Once we understand it, we can learn to work with it.