by Alane Freund | Dec 13, 2021
What did self care look like for you yesterday? What would you like it to be in the next 24 hours? Go ahead and write it down now. Writing down our goals or intentions at least doubles the likelihood that we will realize them. For me in this next 24 hours: 1. I will...
by Alane Freund | Nov 26, 2021
Thanksgiving Ambivalence Sometimes I don’t know how I feel about Thanksgiving. I’ve been really focused on gratitude lately, and I think it’s so important that we take any opportunity or any excuse we can to focus on gratitude because it’s life changing. The science...
by Alane Freund | Aug 9, 2021
Full disclosure: my own therapist put me on this journey to explore, embrace, and hopefully one day implement self-compassion. I’m working on it, but it ain’t easy for me.I’m good at criticism (of myself and others). I’m great at perfectionism...
by Alane Freund | Jan 5, 2021
The change of calendar years is just one in the long series of “new” year celebrations I like to acknowledge. First, the pagan calendar celebrates the new turn of years on Samhain, aka Halloween. Then I celebrate my personal new year on my birthday in mid-November....
by Alane Freund | Oct 26, 2020
We must walk before we run. I don’t know who said that, and I think it’s universal enough that I don’t have to give a citation. This universal truth popped up into my brain while meditating today. How true it is in metaphor as well as practicality. It is the perfect...
