Tag: health
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Mindfulness of Thinking: A Complete Guide to Awareness and Freedom
Many people live on autopilot, missing the richness of the present moment due to mental distractions and unhelpful thinking patterns. Mindfulness helps recognize these thoughts, allowing us to make conscious choices about what to engage with. Developing awareness can lead to greater happiness and a more satisfying life.
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Rebuild Trust with Your Body: A Self-Care Journey
Many people struggle to maintain their New Year’s resolutions focused on diet and exercise. The author urges readers to reconsider their approach to self-improvement by emphasizing the importance of listening to their bodies rather than rigid goals. The meditation practice fosters self-care, intuition, and reconnection with one’s needs for overall wellbeing.
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Trauma Informed Care
I have written and re-written this post many times. It is that difficult to write about this topic. Whatever I wrote, I felt I could write so much more. There are so many nuances to this conversation. There are so many areas of trauma that could be addressed. This writing cannot and will not include…
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New Year – New You?
It is this time of the year again, when we make our New Year’s resolutions and very likely, they are in one or more ways connected to our “health”. I heard it already last week, while wishes of Happy New Year circulated in the office. This colleague and that colleague mentioning or even proudly proclaiming:…
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But… what about health?
Everyone has always assured me, that they were reeaally caring about my health when they advised me to lose weight. My mother, my doctor, my family, my friends, my colleagues, and the people I hardly knew – all of them always talking about healthy eating and exercise as the only means to achieve so called…
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“Maybe it hurts, because you are fat?”
This is literally the question my doctor has recently posed, after hearing my pain complaint. The advice to lose weight and the referral to a dietician immediately followed. In the past I would have felt ashamed and utterly convinced that the doctor, though clearly a fatphobe, was correct. These days I manage to remain calm…