The holidays don’t need to feel paralyzing. If you are overwhelmed and under fulfilled during the holiday season, it is time for a change. Learn how to set boundaries with family this season to help yourself maintain your peace and joy.

As we age, many women struggle with the emotional complexities of embracing their changing appearance while navigating societal pressures to stay youthful. This blog explores how to redefine healthy aging, practice self-compassion, and reconnect with yourself in a way that promotes peace and acceptance. Learn real-life tips from a therapist’s perspective to help you embrace the aging process with grace and gratitude.

Chronic conditions can make us feel so isolated and misunderstood. Finding ways to build support, build in joy can help us find new meaning and groundedness in life.

Embracing Self-Compassion

Self-compassion is a hard concept to grasp. There are many schools of thought when it comes to what self-compassion is vs. what it isn’t. The first thing to address is understanding the difference between self-indulgence, self-compassion, and self-pity.

When we know our values and align with them in our day-to-day activities, as well as the more challenging moments and decisions in life, we can live more confidently, happily, and strongly.

Now that you have been able to create more self-awareness of your mind you can work towards self-compassion and validation to allow a release of the chaos.

Brainspotting is a body-based therapy that helps resolve past experiences so that they no longer inhibit you. Brainspotting resolves old stories in the lower parts of our brains that make us reactive or block us from taking care of ourselves we can engage in our lives to create more self-fulfillment and awareness.

Patrice Flanagan-Morris of Empowerment Within talks about what healthy workplace boundaries are, how to set them and what gets in the way of setting them.