Last week a friend shared the story circulating on social media about the human rights lawyer, Steven Donziger who tried to go after Chevron for dumping tons of toxic chemicals in the Ecuadorian rainforest (which they’ve admitted to) and lost, only to be counter-prosecuted for contempt of court. Donzinger was sentenced to 6 months in prison. One of the judges involved in his case, Loretta Preska, is a leader of the Chevron-funded Federalist Society.
Read MoreI have a confession to make that might be obvious to you if you’ve been following my work over the last few years: I am a big proponent of spiritualism. This naturally conflicts with my desire to explain the science behind all of the things I preach on this blog. I want you to know the science because I want you to understand how the machine (your mind, your body, your nervous system, your spirit) works. But every now and again there’s a practice I lean into that hasn’t been adequately measured by science—can’t, actually, be measured, yet, because the tools for such measurement don’t yet exist.
Read MoreI once heard grief described as ‘love that has nowhere to go.’
From a somatic psychology perspective, this makes sense. Grief is often experienced as a sort of restless sadness—a longing for something permanently out-of-reach. But what if we gave that love a place to go?
Read MoreYesterday I was about to post a video to Instagram, but stopped when I saw my reflection in the camera. Because I’ve become a pro at recognizing my reactivity, I decided to be honest with my community. I asked my Instagram community if they wanted me to share what it looks like when I reprogram an unhelpful narrative. They said yes! So here we are.
Read MoreHaving a strategy for self-regulation makes growth feel safe. These four simple steps will help you return to resilience the next time you’re off your game.
Read MoreThe other day, in my Are You Open to Receiving post, I shared a journaling exercise I use whenever I notice any triggering "I am..." voices wafting through my brain.
These painful "I am..." statements show up in our psyches as shame.
I thought it might be helpful for you, if you're wanting more clarity on all of this, if I walked one of my recent shame triggers through the exercise. I personally learn better through examples, and I assume I'm not alone.
Read MoreAs February crops up—a month that for some reason got pegged as the most romantic—I'm compelled to talk about 'intimacy.' Not in the culturally normative 'physical' sense; I'm talking about a much broader form of intimacy that can be shared between friendships, family members, and that cashier you've never formally met but keep running into at the grocery store.
Read MoreBig trips. They shake things up, shift our perspectives, and push us out of our comfort zones. They are thrilling, eye-opening, even empowering.
But they can also be uncomfortable.
Read MoreA few weeks back my husband and I took a relatively impromptu trip to Big Sur, California.
We were both, independently (and also, by default, together) in a funk. But we both, independently (and together) really love beautiful new places—so we consciously left our funkiness in LA and let the Pacific Coast Highway views fill us up with new life.
Read MoreWhat a strange year it has been. It's hard to say when the fog rolled in. It must have been early March. It rolled in slowly—crept in, rather, as it always does. By the time I noticed it was there, it felt hauntingly familiar.
Read MoreLast week I shared a breakthrough I had about my self-worth as it related to body image, and the unhealthy story I was STILL telling myself.
This week I want to talk about a second breakthrough I had, while in the middle of my first, because, well... because you can’t time this shit to fit your schedule.
Read MoreI have been hibernating. Lost in space. Hangin' solo. I don't know if it was the moon, the earth's shift into some other level of consciousness, or what (let's be honest I think it was both), but I have been navigating some seriously heavy feelings of late. It's not too dramatic, but I've been extremely introspective.
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