Category: Mind

Normally my blog is filled with content about the tools and skills I teach and coach on, but today, I want to use this platform to open up some of my personal, private journey.

In an effort to de-stigmatize conversations around mental health and normalize conversations around therapy, I want to share my personal experience of the last few months.

Despite all the knowledge, tools and resources I have from my coach training that have empowered me to manage my thoughts, manage my mind, rewrite stories that aren’t serving me, and take control of my life, I still had some triggers I couldn’t get a grip on.

What I mean by “triggers” is every now and then, something would be said to me that would send me spiraling. Sometimes it was a person. Sometimes it would be something I would read or was in the media. But every now and then, I would find myself completely stuck on something I couldn’t control. It would dominate my mental space. No matter how many times I tried to regroup or refocus on what actually matters, it would take me a few days to release the stress-inducing thought and not worry about it.

Earlier this year, I had three experiences in a two month period of time where I could not reground myself for three or more days. I could go through the motions of life and keep fulfilling my requirements like my family, coaching calls, and anything on my calendar. But once my mind had the freedom to wander, it was back to the thing I was stuck on. My ability to tap into my creativity, productivity, and ideation was completely blocked. I couldn’t be fully present in my life. I didn’t have internal peace. I KNEW logically what to do, but no amount of prayer, meditation or journaling could help me “snap out of it.”

My husband lovingly said to me “Sophia, I am totally happy to talk through this stuff with you again, but I don’t actually think it will help you. I think you need to get back into therapy.”

I knew he was right. And for a couple years I had heard about EMDR and been very curious. It’s a form of therapy that centers around looking at specific memories the brain has stored. When the brain encounters trauma, it rewires itself for your safety. It’s job is to protect you. It’s beautiful. The problem is, we don’t have conscious control over what the brain decides is trauma. So something that you may think “wasn’t a big deal,” for example, someone being mean to you or upsetting you, could have been traumatic for your brain. There are obvious traumas, but then there are ones we may not realize are still affecting us.

EMDR goes back into those memories and rewrites the stories your brain attached to their meaning. By looking directly at the pain you don’t want to see again, with the guidance of a professional, you can change how you store that experience. And your body stores it too.

Despite my curiosity, I never tried it because “I didn’t have any real serious trauma.”

However, after these repeating triggers and spirals, I was done waiting. I want to feel fully in charge of myself. I want to be in control of me. These experiences felt like I was losing control of myself.

My friend recommended me to a therapist who specializes in EMDR alongside extremely empathetic talk therapy.

It was hard to say yes. Therapy is expensive and there wasn’t discretionary income lying around. In full transparency, I put all the sessions on a credit card. I was able to part with the money by reminding myself that my husband and kids deserve a fully present wife and mom. My business deserves my most creative and present brain. It wasn’t a question of whether I could afford it. I couldn’t afford NOT to fix it.

I thought I had some inklings of what could have been related. Holy moly guacamole did I have no idea. The more she probed and connected dots and asked questions I never asked myself, the more we were able to see where the work was to be done.

Listen, it freaking sucks. I’m not going to kid you. It’s HARD. So. So. So. So. So. HARD.

On the days we did EMDR, and I had to relive some of the deepest pains, my body physically hurt. After going into the memories and then coming out in a new way, I would feel lighter. I felt better and didn’t recall the experiences with as much intensity or pain. But when the sessions ended, I would have to spend hours laying in my bed. As time went on, my body would begin to physically be in pain. I tried to explain it to my husband as “it feels like my blood hurts.” What was happening was my body was reprocessing that experience at the cellular level. Our bodies are incredible. Fascinating. They store our emotions and experiences. As my brain rewrote the information about what these experiences mean about how it is safe to move in the world, my cells had to process it.

Usually after a good nights rest my body would feel normal again, and my soul was a little bit lighter.

Within a couple weeks of therapy, something that would have normally triggered me occurred, and it totally rolled over me. I came home and told my husband about it, but it didn’t take up any mental load. It was just like reporting some facts of an event. I moved on. I knew it was working.

I know that people sharing their stories and experiences is a way that most people learn. I was only open to this work because someone I respect dedicated an entire episode of their podcast on explaining what EMDR is, why they chose it, what their trauma was, and how it was still affecting them 40 years after it occurred. His story stuck with me, and when I was ready 2+ years later, his influence helped me say yes to my healing. 

So I’m going to share with you guys some, but not all, of the memories I had to work on and how they were still showing up because I really want to normalize the conversations around this and let people see how trauma may not look like what you think trauma means.

****TRIGGER WARNING****

*Grief, loss, death, infant loss*

**stop reading here and do not continue if it’s too painful to hear details of someone else’s loss, or wait to read when you’re in a space that you have the capacity to hear it.**

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Far and above anything else, what I had absolutely no idea was going to come up was the heavy amount of unprocessed grief I was carrying.

I lost a brother when I was 5. I lost a grandfather at 6. And at 14 I lost my best friend and biggest cheerleader, my grandmother.

I always thought it was strange that I didn’t cry when she died. I just thought I had accumulated thick skin from having had so much exposure to loss at a young age. I thought that I was numb to death and had accepted it as inevitable for all of us. I took out life insurance policies on my kids at birth and have all my husband and I’s wills ready to go and regularly updated because I just walk around in full belief that life is temporary, not guaranteed, and I should be prepared to lose anyone at anytime.

I remember the only time I shed any tears over losing my grandmother was the day I graduated high school. When she got cancer in her mid-fifties, her goal was to see me graduate high school. She was diagnosed when I was in 7th grade, and she didn’t make it to the end of my 8th grade year. I wasn’t able to attend her funeral out of state. 

This summer, for the first time in my life, I gave myself permission to grieve. My husband had to hold me as I went into mourning twenty years post the loss.

And then there was my brother. That memory was where a lot of it began.

I was a 5 year old little girl standing in the doorway when my father went to check on my baby brother who had unbeknownst passed of SIDS in his sleep. The memory of witnessing that moment still haunted me 30 years later.

Through this work, I learned that my brain ended much of my childhood innocence that day. When I saw my parents in mourning, I decided to assume responsibility. Not for his death, but for the people I loved around me. I didn’t know how to make anything better, or how to help my parents, but I knew how to do most tasks for my 14 month old sister. I knew how to get what I needed for myself. In an effort to control the chaos, I decided to take responsibility for what I could control. And to not be a burden to anyone around me. My brain made that a blueprint for how to move through the world. They are wired to keep us safe. My brain formulated a core belief that part of my safety was found in easing the burdens of those around me by taking on as much personal responsibility as possible and not asking for help.

Thirty years later, I still was assuming responsibility and trying to take control of things that weren’t mine to own. I was still tapping into immense courage anytime I needed to ask for help. Some people like to talk about “victim mentality.” I had whatever the opposite is, to an extreme. Never be the victim. Always take ownership. Always manage as much as you can control. Do for others even what they didn’t ask you to do for them.

Another memory I had to go into is one I’ve blogged about several times. I was fully aware that I was still carrying baggage from an 8th grade experience of bullying that only lasted about 30 days. I’ve been aware for about 6 years that I was still internalizing it. I cannot tell you how many affirmations I have done trying to rewrite what I believe about myself and my relationship with success. I was still trying to convince myself it’s not true that “if you’re too successful, you’ll lose all your friends”. All the positive quotes and sayings and books were helping me to fix it at the logical level, but subconsciously I was stuck. Through this work, I learned it was stuck in my cells. I couldn’t break through without reliving it in a new way.

Through EMDR, I was able to go back in but with all the wisdom and knowledge I have now. With the guidance of my therapist, I was able to change the belief from “if you’re too successful, you’ll lose all your friends” to “none of this was ever about me.” With my 35-year-old self as her guide, 14-year-old Sophia was able to fully see that everything that occurred in those painful days began as the result of a teenager who had some really deep pains and insecurities. My very existence held up a mirror to her hurt. She was just trying to make her hurt go away. And now I can fully love myself again and love success again without the attachment to how others will respond. Because their responses to my actions are not about me.

There were other memories. And other stories. But those are just a few examples.

We were able to identify that every time I was spiraling, someone or something had tapped into a core wound I had not healed.

Logically, I’ve been saying and teaching “you can only control yourself. Your choices. Your thoughts. Your emotions. Your actions. Everything else you have to release.” And I have been doing that, for years.

But there were a few areas where I was stuck. Where I couldn’t let go. Where I couldn’t fully release what other people do, say or think.

Today, I’m soaking in gratitude. I’m grateful that I have only had one spiral in the last 3+ months.

My therapist helped me through that particular one. We discovered that unique situation managed to tap on every single core wound I am healing all at the same time. No wonder I kept calling my dear, patient friend Deanna and shouting into the phone “AM I CRAZY!?!?! Have I lost my mind? Why is this bothering me SO MUCH?!?!” Every other example from this year tapped into only one wound. How ironic that God would have sent me an event in the smack dab middle of my healing to make me stare all of my pain in the face at the same time? It fast-tracked my healing.

I’m stronger now. I feel better now. And I want more people to feel this freedom. So I’m publishing my story in hopes that someone, somewhere who knows what I mean when I talk about the triggers and the spirals will maybe raise their hand and say, “I need help.” And like me, you may have a core belief that you can’t ask for help. Here’s your sign. From one overly independent, self-sufficient woman to whoever needs to hear this, it’s okay to raise your hand and say, “I’m not okay. I need help.”

In closing, am I done with therapy? Well, I chose to write this blog because for now I am pausing. I feel good.

This work has opened doors for me, and I have found my next level of work. I have hired a new one-on-one coach who I know can take me from here to where I’m meant to go next with her gifts and skills. Her unique coaching involves some of this inner work and healing. So I’m not done, I’m just switching methods and practitioners.

For those who may not understand the difference between therapy and coaching, think of it as therapy helps you heal, and coaching helps you grow. Therapy will focus on the past, wounds, healing, and mental health issues. Coaching will focus on the future, goals, and closing the gap between where you are and where you want to be. Many of my clients who have the resources to afford both with work with me and a therapist alongside each other. It’s like having both a dentist and a primary care physician. Both are essential for your wellness, but they look at different things.

I’m at peace with the past. Now I’m ready to unlock the future, and that’s what coaching is for. Let’s effing go.

[And because I know I will get DMs asking me the specific therapist, I saw a woman based out of St. Petersburg, Florida but did everything virtually. If you would like her info, message me and I’ll send it over]

Hey friends,

I have a very simple thought I want to leave with you for this week:

Pay attention to your thoughts.

Start paying attention to where your mind is drifting regularly.

Many of you have goals, plans or intentions for your life. You have some area you want to improve, whether it’s your family, your career, your health, your hobby or something else.

If you are not moving the needle in the area where you want to see the most progress, let me ask you this question:

When you are driving down the road, what do you think about?

When you are washing the dishes, where does your mind drift?

When you are sitting in a meeting or an event and struggling to be present, to where is your mind going?

How about in the shower?

When you’re trying to relax?

If you were to break up all your thoughts in one day into a pie chart, what’s getting the most attention?

Recently, I started tracking this. I started intentionally observing where my thoughts drifted. And guess what…it was in three areas I’m not even actively pursuing a goal.

Rather than my mental energy being spent on how to serve my clients, serve my family, or grow my business, most of my thoughts kept going to these three places:

• Politics- issues I care deeply about but don’t actually have any control on being able to impact
• My house- all the chores going left undone or feeling like sandpaper on my mind at the moment
• Volunteerism- things I volunteered my time to do and needed to follow through with the tasks

Meanwhile, if you look at my weekly brain dump of tasks, my vision board, or read my goals, none of these things move the needle on even one thing.

So guess what I have started doing?

Since I understand the power of our thoughts and the heaviness that mental load plays, I have to give myself a break. I had to eliminate things to free up more headspace.

For the last few weeks I have been working diligently to make more room for my mind to wander where I want it to be drifting. I have only found one things that helps…pruning.

Slowly, but surely, one small thing at a time I am eliminating opportunity for things to even become thoughts.

Regarding politics, I asked myself the really, really, really important question which is, “what can I actually control or influence?” I wrote down the very small, short list of answers to that question and decided I wouldn’t allow more in my mind than I could manage. I was spending waaaay too much thought energy on solving the worlds problems instead of solving my own. Too much of my personal energy was going to having “well informed opinions.” I released the need to have opinions about whatever may be dominating the news. I am not sticking my head in the sand by any means, and I do value being an informed voter, but in the pie chart of my thoughts, it needs to be a much thinner area.

With volunteerism, I have a really beautiful problem I created for myself. I have accumulated a seat at too many tables. I need to let some go.

I asked some really hard questions regarding where my butt in that seat actually made significant impact. If nothing would change whether I was in the room or not, then it’s time to let someone else fill my chair. I’ve cried actual tears over this process, but it’s necessary. I had to evaluate how many hours of my week were spent at events and meetings for organizations, and then how much of my thought energy was drifting to conversations from those rooms, solving problems I had become aware of, and completing tasks I agreed to. Because I am currently president of one of these organizations and they mentally need a lot from me right now, I realized there really isn’t much bandwidth for others. I have to prune. It hurts, but it will create room for beautiful growth.

And lastly, the house. This tool is still working wonders in my household, but it doesn’t change the fact that just walking around my home I feel bombarded by all the undone tasks and projects that have to be compartmentalized for later.

For this area, I can’t change anything about it immediately. Trying to let it go and remind myself when on the schedule we are getting to it is the best I can do. However, I’m fully aware there is a ton that could be delegated if we hired help.

Now, every time I see a nagging “thing”, I changed the thought. I’ve decided that once my business is at the capacity where I can hire some part time help, my first hire will not be the virtual assistant or the social media help I had envisioned. My very first hire will be a house cleaner who is also willing to run errands and help with odds and ends. I am losing so much mental energy to the space that area takes up in my brain. I’m certain an investment there would actually return the largest ROI in my business and quickly fund the other hires I am craving.

If I am not trying to solve the problem of how to get a stain out of a sweater, , asking when I’ll get around to mopping or cleaning baseboards or dusting photo frames, then I can mentally solve more impactful problems.

Instead, I could solve problems like “how can I open more doors for speaking events?” or “which friends have I forgotten to check in on in a while?” or maybe, “what series could I plan and pre-schedule on Instagram that would really add a lot of value to others?” And soooooooo many more things I wish I had more mental capacity to solve more often.

Start today.

All this week, pay attention to where your mind goes and what problems your brain is trying to solve. How can you free up some space in your mind?

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P.S. Teaching people how to manage their thoughts, rewrite them, and improve the mental spoke on their Wheel of Life is a major component of the coaching work I do. If you want to have a conversation about what’s going on in your life, where you want to make progress and what may be holding you back, that’s what I am here for. Schedule a call here.

P.P.S. Did you know that my coaching process is actually super simple and flexible? Most of my clients are on a plan for 20 minute coaching calls. No matter how busy you may be, you can find a 20 minute window to have regular check ins on improving your life. If athletes have coaches to help them improve their game, of course it makes sense to invest in coaching to improve your life. There are so many tools that can help. No reason to feel you have to do it alone. I’m here if you want someone to walk alongside you.

Our thoughts play a mighty powerful role in our lives. Some of these thoughts we choose to think. Some of these thoughts we do not even realize are optional. They were conditioned into us by society, culture, or words spoken to us in childhood.

If we are not intentional about observing the thoughts we are thinking, then we can accidentally place ourselves on a path we have no desire to be walking. 

In my free mini-course I talk more in depth about this, but one of the most powerful ways we can discover, reflect and change our thoughts is to listen to our emotions. 

Our emotions are so powerful. They are not good or bad. They just are. Some emotions are rewarded and some punished. For example, we often strive to feel happy and punish ourselves for feeling sad or angry. Every emotion we are feeling has so much to teach us and empower us if we just pause enough to listen. 

There is a downloadable free PDF in the mini-course I referred to that makes this all super simple, but for today I want to walk through the questions on there and discuss their value. 

I believe there is TREMENDOUS VALUE in journaling these questions on a regular basis. Whether we are experiencing a high or a low, we can learn so much about ourselves by pausing and asking what made us feel this way? The questions are: 

How am I feeling?

What is causing this feeling?

What is the thought behind this feeling? 

What is factual and what is not factual about this thought?

What can I learn about myself?

Is there a new thought I can create?

Are there any actions I can take?

If you want to see an example of where I did these reflections you can just look in the course materials, but I have a challenge for you today. 

Stop. 

Pause. 

Get out a sheet of paper. 

Read those questions again, but this time journal what comes to mind. 

For real. Try it. Don’t just keep scrolling or chase the next dopamine hit of another notification on your phone. Give yourself this gift. 

If you learned something about yourself, shoot me an email or a DM with your experience. I would love to hear from you.

“You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you can change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.” -Zig Ziglar

It’s never an easy task to open up a public conversation around your mental health, but it’s even harder when it’s your kid.

Today, I am going to open up some doors and windows to my family’s private journey for a very intentional reason. 

The protagonist in this story is my daughter. I wish she could be authoring this post, but alas, she’s seven. So I am choosing to write about our experiences parenting a child with a mental health obstacle to climb and the journey that brought us tremendous help. I sat down with my daughter and asked her which parts of her story mommy could tell people about and which she doesn’t want shared.

In March, I stumbled across a random account online that was a woman talking about her mental health journey with full vulnerability. She shared her experiences, her symptoms and her solutions. I began to follow the holistic psychiatric clinic she used and the psychiatrists she attributed to helping her. When my husband and I hit the end of our ropes, I knew that if anyone could help our daughter it would be this practice. And they did. 

It’s much easier to talk about this now that the hardest moments are all in the past and are memories. Today she’s in full health. My hope and desire is that someone else who is walking in the pain of uncertainty and helplessness will also be able to find answers because we decided to tell our story. 

I tried my best to format this post in a way that is easiest to read and most helpful to all. I’m using a Q&A format below so you can easily scroll through the parts that you’re curious about: 

What is the mental health issue you were/are facing?

We realized around the age of five that our daughter exhibited many symptoms of childhood anxiety. By age seven we reached a point where the symptoms were elevating and we needed professional help. 

What were/are her symptoms?

Most people in our lives had no idea she wasn’t neurotypical. She is an angel at school, with friends, with family, in social settings. She has always thrived. Her symptoms only ever manifested at home. 

Rather than share her specific symptoms, I am going to post some common symptoms of anxiety because many parents don’t realize that’s what is happening. Many people try to discipline their children’s behaviors or will ignore them rather than realizing it’s anxiety manifesting and they need help. 

For the sake of brevity, I picked a few. For a full description on the seven types of anxiety and the symptoms, here is a link to the page on the clinic’s website. 

• Frequent feelings of nervousness or anxiety
• Panic attacks
• Avoidance of people or places due to a fear of having anxiety or panic attacks
• Symptoms of heightened muscle tension (headaches, sore muscles, hand tremor)
• Periods of heart pounding, nausea, or dizziness
• Tendency to predict the worst
• Multiple persistent fears or phobias (such as dying or doing something crazy)
• Conflict avoidance
• Excessive fear of being judged or scrutinized by others
• Being easily startled or a tendency to freeze in anxiety-provoking or intense situations
• Shyness, timidity, and getting easily embarrassed
• Biting fingernails or picking skin
• Obsessive-compulsive disorder (stuck on negative thoughts or actions)
• Phobias (stuck on a fear)
• Eating disorders (stuck on negative eating behavior)
• Excessive or senseless worrying
• Upset when things are out of place or things don’t go the way you planned
• Tendency to be oppositional or argumentative
• Tendency to have repetitive negative or anxious thoughts
• Tendency toward compulsive or addictive behaviors
• Intense dislike for change
• Tendency to hold grudges
• Difficulty seeing options in situations
• Tendency to hold onto own opinion and not listen to others
• Needing to have things done a certain way or you become upset
• Others complain you worry too much
• Tendency to say “no” without first thinking about the question
• Persistent physical symptoms (such as headaches, digestive problems, or chronic pain)
• Restlessness, irritability, or excessive crying

There are many more listed on this site or other reputable sources, but this starts to give you an idea of how it can easily go undetected as a personality trait, bad attitude, etc.

What is the clinic you took her to and what makes them different?

We used the Amen Clinic. They have many locations around the U.S., but the one closest to us is in Atlanta. Their approach is to do specific brain scans on a patient, figure out exactly what’s happening in that brain, and then design a treatment plan to give that brain the support it needs. 

Their treatment plans involve a combination of lifestyle changes, food plans, exercise, and prescriptions. Every situation is different. I highly recommend reading through their website to understand more about what they do. 

What did the brain scans reveal?

The brain scans were amazing. They gave us so many answers that I just sat on the couch and cried as I finally got a glimpse of what was happening in her mind. Everything made sense in one moment. We were able to see that the reason she was struggling almost exclusively at night is because her brain is in hyper activity in certain centers all day long, so by the end of the day her brain was exhausted. It was giving out before the rest of her body. 

When we saw the specific areas of the brain that were overactive, and the list of behaviors that may manifest when those centers are out of balance, they DIRECTLY correlated with the experiences we were having. 

In summary, the scans revealed that she needed help balancing a couple centers, and that her brain doesn’t rest well throughout the day.

What was the treatment plan?

The Amen Clinic works with every patient to put them on a completely different plan, so our experience will not be the same as others. In our case, they prescribed the following:

• The elimination diet to discover what foods, if any, may be causing inflammation
• A list of very specific supplements that target the specific centers she needed balancing 
• 30 min daily exercise
• Daily breathwork exercises
• Blood work
• Specific food schedule (We may laugh about getting “hangry,” but it’s a thing. Hunger can cause behavioral changes)

Elimination diet? What’s that? And did you find out anything?

The elimination diet is where you remove the most common allergens for an extended period of time and then reintroduce them slowly to see if symptoms arise. We put her on a crazy strict diet in June that was a lot of work, but worth it. In July, as we reincorporated foods back in we discovered that food dyes, high fructose corn syrup and gluten triggered her symptoms. 

Isn’t gluten, food dyes and high fructose corn syrup in everything?!?!? 

Yep. Pretty much. 

But it’s not as hard as you think. Grocery stores have come a long way in the last 10 years. We can find alternatives for almost anything.

However, it requires intentional planning. We went to our first kid birthday party last week and packed our own gluten free pizza, snacks and desserts. She’s been a real trooper and so brave.

I am so proud of how well she is handling this new lifestyle. We pack her lunch and snacks for school as well. We’ve basically eliminated other people feeding her. It requires a lot of pre-planning on our end, but it’s worth it.

Have you noticed a difference? 

OH MY GOSH YES!!!!!! It’s been 8 weeks since her last meltdown!!! You don’t understand. We were having these a couple times a week. I referred to them as panic attacks before when I didn’t know what else to call them. Maybe they were, maybe they weren’t. I’m not a psychologist. But I do know that she would have a 15-30 minute episode where she didn’t have control over her mind. And we haven’t had one in two months. That alone makes all of this worth it. 

We also don’t have any of the whining and resistance that were nails on a chalkboard for us daily before. She is pretty happy, chill and compliant. She’s a normal seven year old so tries to test her boundaries when we tell her to clean her room or do her chores, but it’s age appropriate responses now.  

So is it “fixed”? 

Mental health is a fluid, ongoing experience. We all need to be monitoring and managing our mental health. The more we understand about how our brains work, the better we can take care of ourselves.

Currently, eliminating the foods that cause her inflammation and taking a very specific combination of vitamins and supplements are keeping almost all the symptoms at bay. The beauty is now that she understands what’s happening in her brain, she has language to tell us what’s going on. And vice versa, now that we know what’s happening, we can help her better regulate her needs. 

I’m really interested in this conversation and want to learn more about this topic and other mental health issues, how can I learn more? 

The website is a wealth of knowledge, but the most fascinating part to me is looking at the images of the brain scans they do! You can actually see what things like ADD, depression, PTSD, trauma or so many more things look like in the brain. I initially found the clinic and Dr. Amen on Instagram and absolutely loved their posts and videos before I finally went to their website to understand more. Their content on mental health is great, so I highly recommend following them. Click to follow Amen Clinics. Click to follow Dr. Amen. 

P.S. Just so you know, I am only blogging this because I want to. The clinic has helped our family so much that I wanted to share our story. This is not a sponsored post or partnership of any kind. Just a mom sharing my experience. 

If you have any other questions, drop them in the comments. I will answer them if I can. 

Many of us are plagued with worrying. Even if we don’t recognize it as a worry, we find our thoughts often drift to the same concerns time and time again when we are driving down the road or sitting alone in the quiet. 

Oftentimes, without the tools to manage those thoughts, people will manage by overriding them. 

“I need to take my mind off of things,” is a common phrase. This may manifest as watching TV, playing video games, scrolling social media, drinking or other common habits to drown out the noise. 

What if I told you that you have the ability to release them whenever you want? 

It’s true. 

Despite how little control you may feel over the things you wish could change, you do not need to hold onto them. You can release them from your thoughts, and therefore, release them from your body. 

All of the emotions we experience are felt by our bodies. Stress causing a heart attack is one of the most often we witness. But happiness or anxiousness can make our heart race or our palms sweat. Sadness makes us cry, right? Our bodies and minds are highly interconnected, so it’s important to understand that those worries and concerns are manifesting in your body somewhere as well. 

This week I am going to offer a guided meditation on how to release your worries. I used this technique with a client this week and realized it’s probably a healthy tool for many of us. 

If you are interested in learning how to release your worries and concerns from your body and mind, join me on Sunday evening at 9:00pm EST to learn a 15 minute meditation practice that you can use at any time. 

Sometimes, I will use this technique in a quick five minute window in a parking lot in the quiet of my car.

This technique would also be very beneficial if you like moving meditation (such as walking or running). You could easily visualize this while exercising and release worries or concerns from your body and mind.

If you would like to join us live on Sunday evening at 9pm (great way to prepare yourself for the coming week) then register here.