How to Support Your Wellbeing in the Face of Negative News Cycles

Are the news reports and headlines getting you down? Are you reading Facebook posts and feeling angry or discouraged? Perhaps you feel like  unplugging completely from the current events? When alarming headlines are only a notification away, it’s easy to feel like the world is falling apart in front of you. Getting deeply invested in negative news can tax your…
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Is It Really Procrastination

Is It Really Procrastination?

“I was going to put this newsletter out last week . . .” Do you know the feeling? Maybe you find yourself getting behind. You tell yourself you’re going to tackle those projects, but you flip on the TV and next thing you know hours have passed. You get mad at yourself and vow to start again tomorrow. Creative ideas…
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Oregon Somatic Therapy

Childhood Anxiety and its Cost to Your Child’s Learning and Development

“When kids start skipping things it might look to their teachers and peers like they are uninterested or underachieving, but the opposite might be true.” – Rachel Ehmke Children count on adults to help them understand the spectrum of intense emotions they experience throughout their childhood and adolescence. They rely on their parents’ wisdom and emotional skills to assist them…
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Oregon Somatic Therapy

Dancing with Your Inner Critic : Question Your Thoughts

Inner CriticYou know that grating critical voice inside that points out all your mistakes. Calls you stupid? It’s the first to tell you that ” you’ll never succeed.” It sounds like someone you’d like to get rid of, right? It turns out that the Inner Critic’s “perspective” arises from our nervous system simply trying to protect us. Only it’s not…
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Oregon Somatic Therapy

Don’t Believe Everything You Think! Question Your Thoughts

Thought Spotting “My brain is deeply flawed. And no offense, but so is yours.” I loved this quote from the Guinea Pig Diaries by AJ Jacobs, so much that it inspired this article. I spend a bit of time watching my brain at work these days. I used to believe what my brain told me. But I’ve come to notice…
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Feeling Overwhelmed? Tense?

Take a few rocks out of your backpack. Here are some steps you can use to get back in the flow, and let overwhelm and tension find their way out of your body. You can do this in just a few minutes, even at a stop light! Just keep your eyes open! Connecting with the Here and Now – Orientation…
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Is It Stress or Trauma? Learn the difference and outsmart anxiety

Perhaps you have experienced some of these situations You have a medical or dental procedure and you try to calm yourself but you notice fear getting the best of you. Afterward you feel numb, spacy and disconnected from yourself. You work in an office where no matter how hard you work, it will never be enough, and you have to…
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Anxiety Relief Tips: Tips to Outsmart Anxiety

Learn how to manage and prevent your anxiety. Breathe If you’re anxious, you ARE holding onto your breath. But if you have pet you have a great breath teacher. Watch them breath. Notice how deeply your pet takes in a breath, down in their belly, nearly down to the base of their legs. Just watch and feel you own body…
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Oregon Somatic Therapy

Intuitive Eating: Making Peace with Food

A Sustainable Enjoyable Way to Eat. Diets don’t work. Hating your body doesn’t work. Most people don’t realize that prolonged “dieting” can contribute to a higher ratio of fat to muscle in your body. But what is the alternative to dieting? Simply letting the old pattern rule? No! There is a peaceful way to work in harmony with your body…
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Oregon Somatic Therapy

Want to Reduce Holiday Stress?

We’d all like to have the perfect holiday, just like those on TV. All we’d need is a production staff of 30 – 40 people behind the scenes. If you’ve laid off your staff, maybe you’d like to consider a less stressful holiday season this year. Or maybe you LIKE the rush you get from climbing Mt. Stress. If you…
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