I invite you to incorporate this "to-sense" list alongside your to-do list for a way to create embodiment amongst your day.

By Madison Traviss

Cognitive based therapy (is what I’m thinking realistic? Is what I’m thinking helpful? All about thinking about your thoughts) is an incredibly effective tool to have to challenge dysfunctional thinking and maintain a cerebral perspective. But we cannot always think our way through our feelings. Sometimes we have to feel them.

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By Kat Muto

Listen in to the Neurosculpting expert, Lisa Wimberger, and she discusses how circadian rhythm and neuroplasticity are related.

Schedule out ten minutes during your day and bring this pocket with you. Take your shoes off, find a space to do nothing, and create space for yourself with this prompt.

By Madison Traviss

Take a moment to walk outside and gift yourself an experience today. What textures can you discover?

By Madison Traviss

There’s been a trend on TikTok lately: “What is the sentence that broke you?” It has struck so many things within me; all those words brought forth and remembered. Words are just words, but the hooks in their underbellies – who can bypass those and/or the things they connect to? Moments caught like fish on their ends. It’s in reflecting that we end up looking back and remembering the moments. The looks. The words. But not just the words we hear, the words we speak to ourselves.

Read the rest of this beautiful piece by Jennifer Knutson.

Find a sit spot (a space close to nature that has limited distractions) and take this audio with you. Take 10 minutes to feel this embodiment, invite what your body needs. Take 10 minutes to reflect in a way that allows this invitation to flow through you. It could be journaling, painting, drawing, dancing, whatever you feel called to do. Finally, take 10 minutes to make yourself tea, coffee, or pour a glass of water. Do this all without screens and give yourself time to be.

By Madison Traviss

I wonder what it feels like to be seen. This earthly embodiment serves as a grounding deer meditation to keep you in tune with yourself and your surroundings.

By Madison Traviss 

Most everyone looks at independence as a strength. And, while it is important on some level, when it becomes a part of your survival mechanism, it may actually be a problem.

Extreme independence could be a trauma response. Were you the caretaker of your household growing up? Or grow up in a home with distant, abusive, or narcissistic family members? Were you abused in an intimate relationship? Friendship? Bullied? Grieving the death of someone?

For so many reasons, we can become so used to doing everything ourselves, that asking for help becomes terrifying. We become so hard on ourselves. We expect to be superheroes at all times. We beat ourselves up when we cannot fix a situation or do everything ourselves.

The inability to trust is one of the cornerstones of trauma. And, that extends to other people, but also ourselves. We create walls to protect ourselves. We don't let people in because we fear being hurt and disappointed and, for some, like myself, we don't feel worthy of help. So, we set boundaries to limit how close others get to us. To protect ourselves from heartbreak and pain. To keep ourselves safe.

But learning to accept help from others is not something to be ashamed of. You're not keeping yourself safe - you're hiding. You're afraid. It's not about being independent or proving to ourselves that we have everything under control. It's about living knowing heartbreak will happen, but living anyway. It's about having the courage to face your wounds and caring for them until they're just scars.

Be you bravely,
Jennifer Knutson

Learn five ways to nourish your nervous system and find ways to connect back into a deeper state of rest.

By Kerry McGinn