Nervous System Dysregulation (and How to Heal)
Nervous system dysregulation can wreak havoc on your mind and body. Nervous system dysregulation happens when your stress response is either hyperactive or exhausted, and your body has a hard time coming back to its calm and steady baseline as a result. When nervous...
Removing the Barriers to Love
Removing the Barriers to Love “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” -Rumi The one thing we all have in common is the desire for love. Not just romantic love, but all...
Anxiety and the Nervous System
Anxiety and the Nervous System Do you ever wish you could time-travel? Any time you experience anxiety that's exactly what you're doing. Here's how it works: When you encounter a stressful situation that you can't escape—or don't have the opportunity to process...
Should you keep striving, or just be happy where you are?
You've been fed some misleading stories. We all have. One of the most salient stories is that there is a future that is better than our current reality, and if we strive for it we can have it. The impression is that there is something "out there" that we haven't yet...
St. John’s Wort: The Herb That Lets the Sun Shine In
Let's talk about St. John's Wort: The Herb That Lets the Sun Shine In I lived with my mom when I was a teenager, but my dad would wake up early every day to pick me up and drive me to school. Self-centered youth that I was, I would force the poor man to listen to the...
Summer Wellness Guide
Summer is a time of exuberance, expansion, and connection, but the heat can burn you out and aggravate you if you don’t know how to keep yourself balanced. This summer wellness guide will teach you: The qualities of summer Signs and symptoms of summertime imbalance...
How to Change Your Life with One Question
How to Change Your Life with One Question Would you believe it if I told you that one simple question changed my life, instantly? It popped into my mind while I was in the shower the other day. I was in the midst of a frantic task, rubbing a salt scrub into my hands...
Judgement vs. Discernment
Judgement vs. Discernment Is judgment necessary? Many people on the self-development path struggle with this. How can we live without judgment, it is often asked, in a world that is filled with so much pain and suffering? If we let go of judgement, won’t we become...
Signs You Need to Do a Cleanse
Signs You Need to Do a Cleanse According to traditions like Ayurveda and Chinese medicine, your wellbeing is dependent on how well your body can balance out what's happening around you. For example, when the weather is hot, you stay healthy by keeping yourself cool,...
The Biggest Benefit of Meditation
What would you expect to be the biggest benefit of meditation? To reduce stress? Regulate your nervous system? Calm anxiety? While it's true that meditation can do all of these things, the real purpose and biggest benefit of meditation is much deeper: It's to bring...
