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How to Handle Uncertainty and Grow Stronger Mar 03, 2021
As someone who spent over half of her life dealing with anxiety, and feelings of self-doubt and unworthiness, I think a lot about what creates happiness, joy, fulfillment, and ease in one's life. 
 
What I know for sure is that life, for everyone, includes contrast, or, as...
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How Yoga and Mindfulness Cultivate a Grateful Mindset Feb 12, 2021

Yoga, mindfulness, and gratitude have a lot in common. They are all tools proven to enhance physical and emotional wellbeing. Research shows that practicing gratitude, much like yoga, meditation, and mindfulness, boosts brainpower, increases emotional resilience, and improves your connection to...

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Brave Enough to See it. Brave Enough to Be it. Jan 25, 2021

Did you feel that?

Chills.

Amanda Gorman, so wise and so poised, delivered an incredible message of truth and hope and possibility. Her words, and conviction, moved us to tears and touched our hearts because she spoke to our soul. 

"When day comes we step out of the shade,
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There Are No Prerequisites for Worthiness Dec 28, 2020

If I handed you a brand new $20 bill and asked you to tell me its value, what would you say? You would probably say that its value is $20.

But what if I crumpled that same $20 into a small ball between my hands and wrinkled it all up. What would you say the value of that $20 bill would be then?...

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It's Okay to Ask for Help Dec 27, 2020

This morning I have been busy recording several short 10-minute classes featuring the yoga sutra from yoga psychology and happiness and life-skills from positive psychology, for my soul subscription community members.

If you've never heard of the yoga sutra, it is a foundational text of yoga...

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The Joy Meditation Dec 25, 2020

I know this Christmas may look different for most of us. And for a lot of us, it has been a year filled with too much uncertainty, loss, anxiety, and loneliness.

I understand. I have been right here with you feeling all the feelings too. And what I have found is that by...

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Why You Need a JOY List Right Now Dec 22, 2020

When was the last time you made a list of the things that make you feel really good? Or, if you already have that list when was the last time you looked at it?

Some of us are working so hard to "fix" the things we see as "wrong" with ourselves and our lives that we simply don't know...

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Why Celebrating Who You Are Matters So Much Dec 21, 2020

There is no other person on this planet exactly like you! And, at the very same time, you are just like every other soul in this big and beautiful world.  

When I was 32 years old I was introduced to yoga's deeper spiritual principles which literally changed the course of...

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Yes, A Happy Life Does Include Painful Emotions (and why you need to know how to release them) Dec 20, 2020

There is a common but erroneous assumption that a happy life is void of painful emotions. Maybe because we grew up watching the perfect ending to every fairytale, or the happy couple walking off into the sunset in so many of Hollywood's romance movies. But actual life is more complex, dynamic,...

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How to Become the Happiest Person You Know Dec 19, 2020

 The happiest people in the world define happiness for themselves.

They put aside what conventional wisdom, society, lifestyle magazines, beauty commercials, or the branding industry tells them they should want or need to be joyful and fulfilled. Instead, their joy, self-esteem,...

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