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When I was a kid, I often had trouble going to sleep. I would plod down the steps in a pink frilly rayon nightgown, my mother clasping my hand. She’d place a kid-sized plastic cup, also pink, in the microwave with what couldn’t have been more than a half cup of milk. Sixty seconds later, my belly would be full of warm liquid, and my eyelids would get a little heavier. Then back to my room, under...

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The world most of us grew up in taught us to look at our issues (mental health, physical, etc.) through the lens of the medical model. This model studies, diagnoses, and treats symptoms. There are problems, and there are answers. And often between these two points, there is a doctor or psychologist who has the authority to treat you. Now, the medical model can be super effective, and there are many great docs and mental...

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Recently, I had a conversation about my commitment to impeccable self care with a good friend who is deeply tired due to caregiving. At some point, she leaned in and asked, “Isn’t it selfish to do these practices?”. My answer to this question is an emphatic “NO”. I believe it is quite the opposite, actually. Like my friend, I suspect that you are someone who cares deeply for your people. Your care and concern for the...

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The other night in conversation, I told my boyfriend that if I wasn’t me, that I would hope to hang out with someone just like me. Given my history of negative self-talk and toxic thought patterns (that I am still working very hard on), this statement I made surprised me. Yet, I still felt it to be so true. So, I started thinking about why I would like to hang out with myself. The first...

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That’s when the magic happens! I think it’s interesting that people are constantly trying to escape boredom. What is it about feeling bored that we find so terrifying? We are surrounded by a limitless amount of entertainment, often right at our fingertips - so is it that we are forgetting we can be alone, with no one to communicate with and nothing to do? Boredom is important. When we experience feeling bored, it is the first time...

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Sometimes I catch myself saying that I started practicing yoga and mindfulness when I was fourteen. While this is true, I don’t mean to say that I’ve been practicing consistently since then. There have been huge swaths of my life where practice fell to the wayside completely. Let me just out myself right now; I’m no exemplar of being in the present moment at all times. I’ve had to set myself back on the path over and over,...