Most of us want to overlook the challenging or painful moments (myself included!) and hope to quickly breeze through them in our day. If you try to pay attention to them though, a lot can be learned from these instances. Read on to harness the power of mindfulness to feel more welcoming of challenging emotions.

How often are you practicing self-compassion? Be honest! We tend to favor self-criticism or self-judgment over learning to be compassionate with ourselves and our experience. We have become so accustomed to beating ourselves up that self-criticism feels comfortable and can even act as a way to soothe ourselves.

This first step to beginning therapy takes insight and a belief (or want to believe) that it is okay to prioritize yourself and your mental health. Let me affirm this step—you are worthy of help, betterment, and deeper relationships. Read on for helpful steps to make starting therapy feel a little bit easier!

We have a lot of ideas of what mindfulness is supposed to look like, but In reality, there is no right way to become mindful or to create moments of mindfulness in your daily life. Read along to find out some easy places to start!

Is it difficult for you to create space for yourself that includes doing nothing at all or non-productive activities? Are you constantly thinking about the next task? These omnipresent capitalist values inevitably become entangled not only with self-worth, but also with self-criticism. Read on for tips to slow down and increase self-compassion.

As we prepare for the first holiday season under Covid-19 regulations, many folx are trying to sort out how to hold space for the tenderness they feel right now AND maintain some sort of connection with family members who voted in support of Trump’s discriminatory beliefs. You’ll find eight tips to help you take care of yourself while spending time (or on Zoom calls) with your conservative family members.

School could already be stressful without adding on the coronavirus! These 7 tips can help both teachers and students to manage school anxiety and support you to return to school during stressful times.

A lot of what I hear in grief work is something along the lines of: I feel like I’m not grieving right. It’s an idea that’s reflective of a lot of things about modern life and comparison culture, but I think there’s something unique in its application to loss.

That large, messy thing is grief. It’s a complex matrix of emotions. Sometimes, we feel as though we have followed the dead to another, hollow plane of existence, and sometimes we feel shockingly, electrifyingly alive.