Last March I lost one of the most important people in my life... my Aunt Margaret. I wish it were easier for me to put into words who she was and how she impacted my life but I still can't. The best I can do is to point you towards a piece that I wrote … Continue reading The Value Of Sadness: How My Hardest Loss Became My Greatest Purpose
Last week I wrote about reading Dr. Ameet Aggarwal’s book Heal Your Body, Cure Your Mind and his suggestion to use daily exercises to relax your mind and help relieve physical and mental stress. Although these exercises can be a powerful tool for alleviating anxious thoughts and responses, we must also remember that there are still physical … Continue reading Back to Basics: The 3 Week Hypoallergenic Diet
Changing how we think can change how we feel. That powerful statement has become the momentum behind my recent series of posts titled The Anxious Mind - inspired by Dr. Aaron T. Beck's Cognitive Behavioral Solution workbook. My goal was to implement Dr. Beck's strategies into my daily life in order to alleviate some of … Continue reading The Anxious Mind: Setting Positive Intentions
This past week the basement in our home began to flood. It was the exact scenario that I had been dreading since the moment we signed the commitment papers last summer. We had been told that the basement had not had a water issue since they had installed the sump pump but neither of us … Continue reading The Anxious Mind: 8 “Steps” To Transform Your Thoughts
Last week, I wrote about Dr. Aaron T. Beck's "Cognitive Behavioral Solution" and how I could have applied some of his strategies to my experience as a student pilot back in 2016. After I finished that piece, I began to think about some of the most important ways that I could apply this idea of … Continue reading 4 Ways That I Have Changed My Relationship With Money
How many minutes a day are you spending on social media? How are those minutes making you feel? These were the types of questions that I asked myself last month when I decided to challenge myself to start being more present and mindful. The more that I focused on how I was spending my days, the … Continue reading Social Sickness: Creating Healthy Boundaries In A Connected World
