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From my own personal life experiences to educational resources on self-care and wellness, healthy recipes and more, these blog posts will guide you towards an intentional lifestyle full of joy. Grab your favorite cozy beverage, light your favorite candle and dive into these holistic self-care, wellness and stress management resources. Enjoy!
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Understanding and Balancing Your Stress
If you're anything like me, you've spent a lifetime being hard on yourself for feeling so stressed out by day-to-day life, asking yourself, why is this so hard for me? Why does everyone else seem to be handling this better? What am I doing wrong? If you’re ready to stop being at the mercy of your stress and empower yourself to bring your stress response down, this blog post is for you!
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Our stories are sacred. Our stories are not who we are.
I was practicing a meditation the other day when I heard these words: Our stories are sacred. We are not our stories…
My conversion story
Five months ago, almost to the day, I became Jewish. As I’ve struggled to process the incomprehensible horror and acts of violence by terrorists in Israel, it feels like the right moment to publicly share my conversion story as well as some anti-anxiety tips to help get through this time…
What are your mirror neurons?
The ability to be influenced emotionally by something outside of ourselves happens because of our mirror neurons. I’m sure you’ve experienced this before. Feeling depressed after watching something sad. Feeling jumpy after watching…
Always feel like you’re waiting for the next shoe to drop?
Often the emotions that we’re feeling in a current situation actually have more to do with past hurts and emotional triggers than what’s presently going on. So if we only focus on the surface issues in the present moment, we might be missing an opportunity to…
Need a morning pick me up?
Whether it’s allergies making you tired, lack of daylight, a poor night’s sleep or any other reason you might be struggling to get out of bed, there is a lot you can do to support your body’s natural processes in the morning and help yourself feel even just a little bit better…
3 common mistakes that sabotage your routine
Changing our routine sounds simple (just do it), but there are a lot of mistakes I see clients making when it comes to their day-to-day planning and creating schedules that work…
What is the 5th season?
We’re now in that space between Labor Day, the unofficial end of summer, and the fall equinox, the official end of summer. While it may be tempting to rush into your fall routine and those end of year goals, it’s important to honor the current transition for optimal vitality and mental well-being…
This Barbie has all the feels
I know. I know. I’m late to the Barbie party. I actually saw the movie a couple weeks ago, but wanted to relish in it a bit and give myself space to process. It definitely brought up all the feels…
Keeping promises to myself
Several months ago I received an email invite, entitled “Cocktails & Conversation”.The invite was to an event in the Hamptons with special guest…
3 reasons you might have neck pain
Due to our reliance on technology both personally and professionally, many of us spend most of our days in what’s called forward head posture. This means that
5 tips for intentional drinking
I like to joke that it’s no coincidence that International Self-Care Day, which was this past Monday, July 24, and National Tequila Day happen to fall on the same day…
How to increase mental flexibility
Mental flexibility is the ability to make a mental shift without remaining stuck in a particular mindset. From a mind-body perspective, the knees are…
3 reasons your hamstrings are tight + how to properly stretch them
One of the requests I’m most often given at the start of a yoga class is: Hamstrings. There are so many things in our daily life that can make our hamstrings tight…
My easy, no-cook summer meal obsession
Food plays a HUGE in our self care practices and our food choices can be one of the biggest factors that contributes to our sickness or health…
6 books for your summer beach bag
I have always been an avid reader. Every summer was filled with multiple trips to the library where I marveled at…
5 ways to avoid summer burnout
Even though we’re only officially starting the summer season today, many of us have been in summer mode since Memorial Day Weekend and you might already be experiencing some of the symptoms of summer burnout…
A simple trick to feel more alive
After last week’s bout with all the wildfire smoke in NYC, it got me thinking a lot about the role that our lungs play in our lives. There are the physical impacts on our health and our body's ability to function with ease and efficiency, but our lungs also have a direct connection to..
Techniques to cleanse your energy and ground yourself after travel
I personally LOVE travel. And for as much as I love travel I will be the first to admit, travel can be incredibly stressful. And travel, by nature, is incredibly ungrounding…
5 tips to prepare yourself for public speaking with calm and confidence
As I waited to go on stage in front of over a hundred people, I had a million thoughts running through my head, one of which was: remember, you chose to do this…
How essential oils support your overall wellbeing
What does it mean for our bodies to heal and how would we provide the “right“ environment for healing? Studies have shown that our bodies…
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