This is an introduction to understanding our Inner Child. Many adult behaviors and emotional reactions are rooted in childhood wounds or trauma.
Reconnecting to your inner child allows you to address, understand, and heal these old wounds, reducing the impact of past experiences on your current life. It provides an opportunity to give yourself the love, validation, and safety you might have missed in childhood, which can foster a more secure and compassionate relationship with yourself. […]
Meditation on Connecting to your Inner Child
This meditation is part of the “Connecting to your Inner Child” introduction.
Connecting with your inner child is important because it allows you to heal unresolved emotional wounds from childhood, leading to greater self-awareness, self-compassion, and emotional balance. This part of you holds both the joy and innocence of childhood, as well as unmet needs, fears, and traumas that can influence adult behavior, such as anxiety, low self-esteem, anger or difficulty setting boundaries.
By acknowledging and nurturing your inner child, […]
How to Maintain Focus with this Easy Tool
Chin-tucks for focus & concentration? Right!
Many Air Traffic Controllers push their chins straight back ten times every hour to maintain focus during 8-hour shifts.
This is not posture correction, it is neural activation.
Pushing your chin back activates deep neck flexors that communicate with your reticular activating system, the brain’s attention center.
This movement, called cervical retraction, increases blood flow to your prefrontal cortex by 25%.
Focus researchers tested this: 10 chin retractions improved sustained attention by 83% over 2 hours. […]
6 Simple Ways to Bring Yourself Back to Calm
Have you been worrying or thinking too much to the point of creating anxiety, feeling an intermittent anxiety background hum that puts you at the verge of reactivity at the slight trigger?
If you do not interrupt that pattern, your nervous system may get stuck in overdrive.
It is then that you need tools that work quickly and quietly – like turning down the volume without anyone knowing.
Six science-backed ways to bring yourself back to calm
Here are 6 science-backed ways to bring yourself back to calm, […]
Eliminate Fear & Anxiety in 2 minutes
Viking berserkers used this visualization for 600 years – MIT proved it eliminates fear – & anxiety in 2 minutes.
MIT neuroscientists studying ancient Norse sagas discovered that Viking berserkers weren’t born fearless — they used a specific 2-minute mental technique before battle that completely shut down fear responses. Brain imaging shows this practice literally rewires the amygdala to stop producing panic signals.
The Technique?
Close your eyes and imagine yourself as a extending 20 feet into the earth and branches reaching toward the sky. […]
The Hard Truth
You have been given a precious, priceless gift, the gift of life. What are you doing with it?
The hard truth is that if you wait until you feel better to start living, you might be waiting forever.
Go live your life. Do it sad. Do it anxious. Do it uncertain. Because healing doesn’t always come before the experience. Sometimes, the experience is what heals you.
This truth is a reminder that life does not wait for the perfect moment. […]
The DARVO Tactic
The DARVO Tactic is one of the most disorienting manipulation tactics out there, and once you know what it is, you’ll start seeing it everywhere.
What does the term stand for?
DENY
ATTACK and
REVERSE VICTIM and
OFFENDER
It’s a way to shift blame away from the abuser and make you seem like the one at fault. […]
Walking on Eggshells
What does it Feel like Walking on Eggshells?
In a safe relationship you thrive. You feel safe to be who you are. Emotions are disclosed and talked about.
In our early childhood, some of us were conditioned to mind read, walk on egg shells, and be responsible for people’s emotions. We were hyper vigilant because we had to be, but not any more.
Walking on eggshells around someone can be one of the most mentally and emotionally draining experiences. […]
Incantations
Repeat these incantations throughout your day and see your whole life change. After seven days, come back and comment all the amazing things that have happened in your life.
So repeat these three affirmations after waking up in the morning, right after lunch and just before bed.
Everything is working out for my highest good.
I am open and receptive for all the abundance, blessings and miracles that’s headed my way today and I request for a clear sign in my reality so I can recognize those blessings. […]
Your muscles are a natural antidepressant factory
𝗗𝗶𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝗰𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗮 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆? 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗮 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗱-𝗯𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝗿𝗲𝘁: “𝗵𝗼𝗽𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗲𝘀.”
Every time you move, whether it’s a brisk walk or an intense workout, your muscles are pumping out proteins (myokines) that combat stress and depression. It’s like having a built-in pharmacy, and the prescription is simple: just move!
Think about it. In our hectic lives, finding time for mental health can be challenging. But what if I told you that your daily commute, […]