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Month: April 2021

3 skills you can develop to help you love your body as it is

I know starting the journey of coming home to our body can be challenging. Here are 3 helpful skills to build to start the process of creating a healthy relationship with your body.  1. Develop an awareness of the narratives that you hold and tell yourself about your body. This is the first step in…
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Surround yourself with people who understand you

Have you ever tried to explain to a friend your experience of your body, or maybe how challenging it is for you to navigate the specific illness you live with?  Your friend might be super empathetic but if they don’t have a similar lived experience they actual won’t get it. It’s not their fault, but…
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Rejecting our Body

Sometimes we think that by rejecting and disconnecting from our body, that what we are feeling is going to magical go away. But the truth is it doesn’t.  It usually gets worse. The sensations we get from our body are letting us know something is off, and they are just going to get louder and…
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Dance Movement Therapy a Vehicle for Self-Expression

Sometimes our emotions are buried so deep that we don’t have words to express them.  Sometimes it’s too hard to feel what we are feeling straight on.  Sometimes we need to get out of our head and into our body to feel what we are feeling.  Sometimes we need to use our imagination and play…
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How can we start to listen to our body?

How can we start to listen to our body?  Here are a few key things to remember:  Feel what you feel – don’t suppress, push down or reject what you are feeling  Accept what you feel – it’s so easy for us to judge or what we are actually feeling, try to be compassionate and…
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