Resilience quotes and words of wisdom on resilience to help you keep you cultivate and maintain a calm body, compassionate heart, and steady mind during difficult times. Resilience is the capacity to recover from difficult times and to face future difficulty with a greater sense of ease. Here’s to facing the hard days with greater […]
Journaling Grief Journaling grief can help you to make order from the internal chaos that comes with loss. This is a therapeutic writing practice that can support you in healing from loss. Sometimes it’s easier to write about grief than to talk about it. Sometimes it’s hard to find someone who can really listen. Journaling […]
Acceptance of Loss Healing grief through acceptance of loss does not always come easily. Human beings are averse to unpleasantness, and when we first learn of a significant loss, we may encounter shock and denial. I recall when I was 25 years old, arriving home from a Friday night out with friends. My roommate met […]
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Grief Quotes to Open Your Heart
Grief Quotes Grief quotes to open your heart and soothe your sou To heal is to touch with love that which we previously touched with fear. — Stephen Levine Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break. ― William Shakespeare Wanting things to be otherwise […]
Grief Poems Grief poems to ease the suffering and loneliness of loss. The following are excerpts from grief poems. Please click the links to read the full poems. The Well of Grief by David Whyte Those who will not slip beneath the still surface on the well of grief,…will never know the source from […]
Loving-kindness meditation is an ancient practice that has been shown to improve our relationships, reduce stress, and even boost happiness. This article will guide you in practicing loving-kindness meditation. Cultivation of loving-kindness is a significant aspect of mindfulness practice. The Pali word for loving-kindness is metta, which means acting with compassion toward all sentient beings […]
Creative Inspiration doesn’t just appear out of nowhere. Creative inspiration is a state of being that we cultivate through doing things that inspire us. For me, it’s a pretty simple formula: in order to feel inspired, I need to do what inspires me on a regular basis. People sometimes mistakenly assume that what I do […]
Mind body medicine and mindfulness can help to restore the mind and body to a state of wholeness. Wellness happens on a continuum. Healing sometimes brings about cure, and sometimes it does not bring about cure, but healing can restore us to a state of wholeness and increased inner peace, even if we have chronic […]
Do you have a fear of getting better? Is there something that you’re struggling with, physically, emotionally, or mentally, that holds you back? Does this struggle also keep you from doing something that you fear? Take a moment to imagine what your life would be like if the thing that you’re struggling with wasn’t there […]
Hope and resilience may go hand in hand. When we cultivate hope, we are also cultivating resilience. Hope is the desire or expectation for a certain outcome. Holding hope nurtures a positive mindset and positive emotional states. Positive emotional states support our resilience. Cultivating hope and resilience doesn’t mean that we deny or turn away […]