How Body Awareness Can Help Reduce Stress
“Body awareness not only anchors you in the present moment, it is a doorway out of the prison that is the ego. It also strengthens the immune system and the body’s ability to heal itself.” — Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth Body Awareness Body Awareness is one of the...
Getting Unstuck
“If you can't do what you long to do, go do something else. Go walk the dog, go pick up every bit of trash on the street outside your home, go walk the dog again, go bake a peach cobbler, go paint some pebbles with brightly colored nail polish and put them in a pile....
Embracing the Seasons
“Winter is not a season, it’s a celebration.” —Anamika Mishra, author I have a confession to make: winter has traditionally been a difficult time for me. Growing up on the west coast of Canada, it wasn’t unusual to go a whole month without seeing the sun in the...
Five Ways to Use Your Five Senses
“One of the greatest keys to unlocking our potential, finding happiness, and freeing ourselves from anxiety and the effects of stress lies in increasing the amount of time we spend in an appreciation and full awareness of the present moment.” – Philip Carr-Comm,...
Inner Support, Outer Support
“The best way to get rid of the pain is to feel the pain. And when you feel the pain and go beyond it, you’ll see there’s a very intense love that is wanting to awaken itself.” – Deepak Chopra What kind of support do you need right now? It’s a delicate question, I...
What Happens in Individual Sophrology Sessions?
“The greater the level of calmness of our mind, the greater our peace of mind, the greater our ability to enjoy a happy and joyful life.” – Dalai Lama XIV You’ve heard me talk about sophrology here and there, but I get that it can seem a bit of a mystery. It's...
Know Thyself
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” – Aristotle Know Thyself From personality tests to horoscopes and archetypes, there are many tempting outside ways to better know yourself. Why do you think that those tricksy “What Harry Potter/Friends/Game of...
On Change (and the power of writing)
What was a host of giant purple poppies is now a bundle of flaxen coloured seed pods. The poppies were glorious, but I find these pods equally as beautiful, just as they are. Add in the fact that they contain the potential for so many more poppies, and they are...
What Is Sophrology?
Imagine this sung to the tune of Let’s Do It (Let’s Fall in Love) Schools use it. Olympic teams use it. Even pregnant moms-to-be use it. Everyone can use it. It’s Sophrology! Sophrology and Me In 2019, as I was developping my signature Flourish program, I kept on...
