Resources: Wellbeing

Cultivating a loving and compassionate heart is a common and important challenge for most people. A personal transformation, or a transition in group culture, may involve learning how to express…

Self-care practices that re-affirm or reinforce your worldview can help renew bonds of affection or love, support choices, and contribute to a sense of personal integrity and self-esteem.  While some…

It can be challenging to resolve suppressed, repressed, or stuck emotions.  Increasing awareness can be a good first step. You can either accept an emotion or resist it.  Resistance often…

Emotions can be confusing and difficult to identify.  What if you don't know what emotions you feel?  You either can't identify them, or you're uncertain whether you feel them at…

Uncomfortable emotions can arise for many reasons, like a growing awareness of the destruction of nature or the suffering of humans. During any kind of transition , many people may…

It can be completely reasonable to feel emotions like sadness, anger, or depression in response to historical oppression, or social injustice, or marginalisation, or climate change.   Rather than dismissing emotions,…

A transition in self-awareness can involve reframing human emotions and emotional self-care. While the forms that emotional self-care practices take may vary across cultures, normalising emotions is an important first…

Resilience is the ability to cope with adversity and regain balance afterward.  Navigating uncomfortable situations is a common and important challenge.  Individuals can learn to cope with adversity in ways…

Humans naturally move between periods of Doing and Being; activity and rest; spending energy and replenishing; learning and integrating. Both are important; too much of either one can be problematic. …

Physical self-care includes many activities that benefit the physical body like sleep, nourishment, and exercise. Sensory self-care is primarily for calming and regulating the nervous system.  Sensory self-care can help…

Saying 'yes' to one thing – such as self-care, or another work priority – can mean saying 'no' to another thing –  as small as responding to a text, or…

The human nervous system evolved in nature, and it is still designed to respond to the signals that nature provides.  Some health care providers are now writing prescriptions for time…