Three Powerful Ways to Reduce Adrenaline and Increase Feelings of Safety, Peace and Calmness
Adrenaline, or epinephrine as it is medically referred to, is a hormone that is released by the adrenal glands when the body registers a...
Seeing the Beauty Around You and Self-Care: Is There a Connection?
Struggling with self-care? Life getting you down? Do something simple - see the beauty in the world around you. Seeing the beauty in the...
A Quick Way to Build Trust With Yourself and Why it Matters.
When you do what you say you are going to do, especially for yourself, you build trust with yourself. If you told yourself that you were...
Have at Least One Hug a Day
Hugging activates the release of oxytocin, which activates the parasympathetic nervous system. The parasympathetic nervous systems is...
14 Tips For Thriving Through the Holidays – Tip #6
Take a vagus breath. The vagus nerve, which is the longest nerve in the body, runs from your brain all the way down to your lower belly...
Three Powerful Ways to Reduce Adrenaline
The last 3 articles I posted focused on adrenaline and how it works in your body to make you feel unsafe. This article will focus on 3...
Are You Unknowingly Activating Your Fight or Flight Response?
I generally describe stress as the feeling we have when we feel like we don’t have the capacity to cope with what is going on or that we...
Are You Offended Easily and Often?
In my article, “Negative Thinking - Why is it So Hard to Change?” I mentioned that one of the ways we keep the negative thinking going...
Negative Thinking – Why is it So Hard to Change?
Did you know that we typically have 60,000 thoughts or more a day? Did you also know that most of these thoughts were negative? Even if...
Managing Adrenaline - The Key to Feeling Safe and Calm
As a woman, you will never, ever feel safe, and therefore calm, if you have high levels of adrenaline running through your body. That is...