Author: Kimberly Buchwald
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The Art of Stillness in a Fast Paced World
When you live by the narrative of “somewhere else is better” there isn’t much room for “let me be here.” Which is why to find stillness you need to actively create that stillness.
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Mindfulness 101: Awareness requires you to actually feel your feelings
Whether you are just starting out on a journey to more presence or you have been practicing mindfulness in one way or another for a while, one word is bound to come up over and over again: Awareness. Awareness is this big and important part of mindfulness, but what exactly is it? Sure, to be…
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3 questions to help you stop sabotaging your self care and start prioritizing yourself
Practicing self care is all about practicing prioritizing yourself. This a lot easier said than done, especially when we are so often used to displacing our power and hiding the parts of ourselves that need and want the most. Understanding ways we sabotage our own self care because we don’t feel deserving of it goes,…
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The Best Kind of Love Letter is Self Trust
Today I want to talk more about building self trust. For me, self trust used to be, and sometimes still is, an anxiety provoking thing. It’s as if in learning to trust myself it means that I have all the answers. I know the path to take and can assure myself I’ll get to my…
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3 Mindful Self Care Ideas to Help you Embrace this Fall Season
Up here in New England the hot and humid heat is slowly dissipating to be replaced with the crisp weather of fall. A few of the leaves are changing and I have an immense amount of apples in my fridge destined to be turned into applesauce. Every ounce of my being is yearning for the…
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The Discomfort of Actually being Present
Note: The following is Part 3 of a 3 part series if you haven’t read Part 1 and Part 2 check them out here. We can get so wrapped up in autopilot, the reactionary state of living life bound to stories and emotional states that stop you from actually living in the present. When it…
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One Question to Ask when you are Stuck on Autopilot
As I said in Stuck on Autopilot? Here’s How to “Fix” it with Mindfulness to shift out of autopilot or reactive states, we first need to notice it. According to mindfulness researcher Daniel Seigel, “When we achieve new skills of self-observation through mindful practice, it becomes possible to disengage automatically coupled pathways.” (Seigel, 2007, Paragraph…
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How do you know your happy if you don’t notice it? Notes on a Failed Road Trips
The last few weeks I have been on what was supposed to be a six week cross country road trip that has gone completely wrong. My partner and I’s 2006 Ford Econoline broke down not once, not twice but three times before we even made it to our first actual planned destination. Because of the…
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3 reasons trying to be happy is making you miserable
Happiness as an attitude is about resource. How can we resource ourselves in ways that are nurturing and validating and open hearted, even, and especially when our objective feelings are uncomfortable or even painful–even, and especially when we are suffering?
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How to Actually Notice (and then Respond) to Limiting Beliefs
As we age, we close ourselves off to who we are which affects our ability to show up with curiosity and play. This week I again want to talk about the limitations we place on ourselves, but I want to talk about it from a different perspective. How are you limiting yourself? At any given…