Every event and/or interaction that feels triggering to you can be an opportunity for further self-reflection and self-healing. This guided contemplation and journaling practice takes you through a compassionate exploration into your more reactive moments in certain events and/or interactions with people. While holding this compassionate space for yourself, reflect upon how you can communicate to set healthy, compassionate boundaries.

Can "setting boundaries" with other people be yet another form of finger-pointing rather than turning the mirror back to ourselves?

How do we know whether we are trying to avoid a healing opportunity (which can be messy and painful) by "setting boundaries?"

Listen in to this week's {potentially} controversial topic with my very dear sister Irene as my guest.

We speak about:

• How we can miss out on healing opportunities and bypass deeper self-work when we are too quick to set boundaries with people who trigger us

• Recognizing good stress, and balancing stress with rest for better personal growth, healing, and development

• The need for everyone to reinvestigate our old emotional wounds rather than never ripping off the Band-aids

Why is it so hard for us to fall asleep at night? In the previous episode, sleep coach Lauren Ziegler suggests that it's in those quiet, dark hours of the night when our feelings catch up to us to a point of overwhelming us. In this guided meditation, she guides us through a tender journey of feeling our feelings and softening into them rather than fighting against them to help us get peacefully to sleep.

In this episode, I have the honor of having Lauren Ziegler, IAYT-certified yoga therapist and a sleep coach to discuss the importance of sleep, and how it impacts our physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing. Lauren also shares her experience with sleep difficulties and how she overcame them through yoga nidra and meditation. She discusses five ways to know whether your sleep quality is poor, how sleep and emotional regulations are closely tied to one another, and offers tips on improving sleep by practicing mindfulness during the day.

We are often driven by the insecure need to keep accomplishing and achieving things in this busyness culture. When this need is driven by the feeling that no matter what we do, it never is enough, then success becomes a constantly moving target. This guided meditation is designed to anchor ourselves back into what we already have, what we have already accomplished, and the fact that who we are, right here and right now, is already enough. There is no need to prove anything else to anybody, and especially, ourselves. 

Have you noticed that oftentimes when asked: “how are you?”, many reply by saying: “oh, I’ve been super busy.”

Busyness seems to be a badge of honor nowadays. There’s this constant need to do, achieve, perform, and succeed. While there is nothing wrong with accomplishing goals in healthy measures, when there’s an obsession with it, when the drive to accomplish stems from feeling insecure about ourselves, then that could be a recipe for burnout.

In this episode, we discuss the burning (pun intended) question: "Is burnout real?" We will dive into the definition of burnout, what leads to burnout, and my own personal story of how I burnt out 3 times (and probably still counting) and how I regained my inner strength by nurturing myself.

This meditation practice guides you through a body scan and a inner contemplative experience to discover what truly nourishes your body, mind, and soul. The purpose is to find your own unique self-nurture practice that you look forward to do a few times a day on a daily basis.

What is self-nurture and how does it differ from self-care? This is the topic we are going to explore in today’s episode, and you can say is my crusade in revolutionizing the way we think about self-care, or rather, RECLAIM what self-care is for ourselves rather than being SOLD what self-care is. We will discuss why self-care portrayed by the media is inaccessible and unsustainable, and what you can do instead to take care of yourself without the glitz and glamor. 

This somatic practice takes you through a slow and mindful journey in your body to hone your listening skills for your bodily sensations. By slowing down a simple movement rather than rushing through it mechanically, we get to pick up on so much more about what our body is trying to tell us.