Are you doing meditation right? anxiety inner critic internal witness meditation mental focus racing thoughts self-compassion self-love Jul 16, 2024

When you meditate, is your mind still racing with thoughts--maybe even negative thoughts that you can't turn off?

You're not alone! I often hear from clients: 

"Jeanell, I think I'm meditating wrong. I can't stop my thoughts!"

My reply? "That's great, you don't need to!"

A common...

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You May Need Healing, but You Don't Need to Be Fixed anxiety depression healing mental health self-care self-love Feb 04, 2022

Have you ever gotten a paper cut? A paper cut is a small, but often painful, breach of your body’s boundaries. Where you had skin before, now you have a wound, and when you have a wound you’re more vulnerable to losing vital fluids or contracting infection by viruses or bacteria....

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Are you using others' suffering to invalidate your own? compassion environmental justice environmentalist inner child personal development self-care self-love social change veganism Oct 27, 2021

“It could be worse,” I say to myself as I struggle through a day of mild chronic pain. I live with chronic illness and some days, some weeks, some months, even some years are better than others. But I have friends, colleagues, and clients with chronic illness who are in and out of the...

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