There’s a common phrase (or overused cliché, depending on how you want to frame it), “to go with the flow”. This has never been something I’ve wanted to do or have been good at doing. Sometimes this has been a good thing!
Yoga Therapy for Burnout Part 3: Yoga Therapy Treatment & Prevention
Utilizing the perspectives of yoga and Ayurveda, various tools can be used to address burnout and compassion fatigue. These tools can address not only the symptoms, but also some of the underlying causes. The tools are not one-size-fits-all but rather can be modified or used in various combinations depending on how burnout and compassion fatigue are manifesting in the individual.
Yoga Therapy for Burnout Part 2: Various Perspectives on Burnout
American culture, with puritanical roots focused on austere values of hard work, as well as America’s focus on individualism and capitalism, often values burnout and does little to prevent it or treat it. “Pushing through”, long hours, doing it all yourself, are all valued in the American work ethic.
Yoga Therapy for Burnout: Part 1
How Mindfulness Can Help With Pain
How Yoga Can Help With Pain
Self-Care: Trend or Revolution?
"Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare."
-Audre Lorde, self described "black lesbian feminist mother warrior poet"
Self-care is a very trendy buzzword these days. It evokes images of manicures, bubble baths with a glass of wine, a massage, and shopping sprees.
Rediscovering Our Joy
Transitions
We've entered the golden hour of summer, that fleeting but magical time when summer is coming to a close but it's not quite fall. The days are still warm, but getting a little shorter, gardens are abundant with veggies, and there's a bit of change in the air.
This is also the traditional transition of "back to school" but like last year, we know there is nothing traditional about it this year.
