The BEST Way To Start Off 2022
New Year New You? No! There’s nothing wrong with the old you… As we turn the page on another year and say hello to 2022 […]
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Happy Holidays? YES!
4 Steps to help you Focus On Joy So many stressors are threatening to interfere with the joy that holidays are meant to be. Some […]
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Missing the Light?
Illuminate dark winter nights with warm nourishing practices: If you’re an Old Testament reader, you know that the second act of God was to bring […]
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Preparing for Happy Healthy Holidays? YES!
In this year of transition, you may be experiencing even more holiday angst or worry than usual. Perhaps you skipped last year’s traditions because of […]
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Instant Happiness
There is a way to feel instantly happy, calorie-free, available everywhere at any time, with no negative side effects. Hard to believe? It’s true, possible, […]
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Need a Well-Being Parachute?
Reach for Gratitude! One of the simplest and most effective ways to reduce stress and increase feelings of well-being is by practicing gratitude. I’ve shared […]
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Fall Gracefully into Balance
Depending on where you are in the world, autumn may have arrived recently. When it did, if you are the Pacific NW like I am, […]
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It’s Time to Celebrate!
Phoenix Rising, Powerful Women Who Rose From The Ashes To Claim Their Place launches today! We can do hard things, and this book is a […]
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Resolve to Be Better, Anytime!
The Jewish New Year happened this week! A friend asked me, “Do you make resolutions like at the traditional New Year?” The answer is yes, […]
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To Relieve Stress and Suffering, Give Yourself the Present.
Our global community is under so much stress right now. Many of us can barely remember a time when we felt light and easy and […]
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Fear Burnout
As Covid cases are on the rise again, many of us are feeling a new level of fear. If you live in Oregon, you are […]
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Sometimes the BEST thing you can do for your health is NOTHING!
Life has gotten busy again with the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions and a global release of all of the pent-up energy to get going. Are […]
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Release Your Burdens in 4 Steps
You may have felt the heaviness in the air lately. The extreme heat and humidity are partly to blame, but there is an energetic heaviness […]
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Keeping Cool the Ayurvedic Way
Here in the Pacific Northwest, we have just come through an unprecedented heatwave. Although there are hotter places on earth, we are certainly not used […]
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Disappointment as an Opportunity for Growth
Sometimes, even yogis with deep spiritual and meditation practices get knocked off balance by life. A wise teacher of mine once put her hands out […]
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Free At Home Therapy
Please join me for my Book Launch Party, I’ll be speaking about my chapter on June 8th at noon pacific time, I would love to […]
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Sing for Well Being
As Mental Health Awareness Month draws to a close, I hope you have increased self awareness and are noticing when you’re not feeling emotionally well. […]
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Your Attention Pleases
Do you ever feel unheard or unseen? Do you ever have something you want to ‘get off your chest’ but feel hesitant to share? Sharing […]
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Finding Your Inner Calm in Conflict
A practice to heal suffering from within. Are you getting burned out on all the conflict in the media? It feels like everything in the […]
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Be Aware of Mental Health
May is Mental Health Awareness month, find mental and emotional wellbeing through awareness. You may be surprised to learn that I suffer from anxiety. What? […]
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Get Back to Health, Your Natural Way of Being: 3 Simple Practices
Staying in touch with nature balances and heals! Ayurveda, the most ancient healthcare system, has been around for over 5000 years. During that time it […]
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Take Control of Your Life, Write your Own S.T.O.R.Y.
Using mindfulness to face challenges allows you the freedom to choose your path. Have you ever had second thoughts? Can you think of a time […]
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Hack Uncertainty in Three Simple Steps
How you can reach a decision when you need a clear head and trusted judgment and don’t have time to phone a friend: If you […]
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Why Anxiety NOW? How to manage…
You don’t have to suffer from anxiety, take a breath and read on: After such a difficult year, we are finally beginning to re-emerge and […]
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3 Simple Spring Cleansing Practices
Spring cleaning is a tradition in almost all religions and cultures. Passover, the Jewish holiday where spring cleaning is observed is described in the bible […]
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Equanimity at the Equinox
Learn to practice equanimity to bring calm into your life, even when things feel out of control! At the Spring equinox last weekend I thought […]
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A Routine Move
Recovering from the chaos of this last year will take some time and focus. With all of the changes and uncertainty, you may feel ungrounded, […]
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Making Change
Are you overwhelmed with change right now? All of the forced changes from this past year can lead to physical, mental, and emotional imbalances. Last […]
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Keep The Change
It has been one heck of an interesting year. Almost everyone on the planet (!) has been affected by the pandemic. Most of us have […]
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Emotional Growth through Challenge, Podcast
I was fortunate enough to be interviewed again for Dr. D’s Social Network, and enjoyed another deep and meaningful conversation with the brilliant Darian Parker […]
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10 Day Soul Cleanse
According to the Jewish calendar, this week marks humanity’s 5780th year on this planet. Mind-boggling isn’t it? We all know 2019 years ago was not […]
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A beautiful conversation about relationships and unconditional love, with Dorice Horenstein on her podcast Moments of the Heart.
Please enjoy this poignant conversation about love, loss and recovery. Dorice asked me what I thought made a good relationship. My answer: conscious communication and […]
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The Gift and Curse of Impermanence
My mom’s yartzeit is tonight. She died 12 years ago this week, and in the Jewish tradition on the anniversary of a loved one’s death, […]
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Sharing Greatly
Michelle goes deep into her personal journey in this poignant podcast with Dr. Darian Parker in Dr. D’s Social Network
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International Day of Yoga
It seems these days everything has a designated “day of”, from doughnuts to cake to coffee, titles, relationships, there are so many days of some […]
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Meditation 101: it’s not hard and it’s not boring!
When I first started teaching meditation, as an adjunct to private yoga and yoga therapy, clients told me so many reasons why they “couldn’t” meditate. […]
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Mother Love – A visit to the Motherless Daughters Annual Luncheon
In 1994 Hope Edelman, who lost her mother when she was 17, wrote the book Motherless Daughters. This book has sold over 500,000 copies. Unique […]
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What is Ayurveda and how can it help me?
3 questions to ask yourself to find out if you need to learn about Ayurveda: 1 – Do you want to sleep peacefully for 7 […]
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Is Yoga Therapy for me? And what is it anyway?
Imagine sitting in your therapist’s office, you are upset recounting a challenging situation that is stressing you out. Your therapist tells you to take a […]
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