Beginner’s Guide to Healing Crystals

Beginner’s Guide to Healing Crystals

Crystals are rock formations found in nature and are valued for their beauty and healing properties. Ancient cultures incorporated crystal gemstones into their daily lives by using them for beauty routines, rituals and cultural ceremonies. All crystals have the...
Is Social Media Taking Over Your World?

Is Social Media Taking Over Your World?

With the help of technology, social media connects you to any of the almost 5 billion people around the globe who have internet access. Social media keeps you in touch with family, friends, co-workers, schoolmates and anyone who will accept your request to be...
Alternative Ways To Cope WIth Trauma

Alternative Ways To Cope WIth Trauma

Emotional or physiological trauma is an event that leaves you feeling unsafe, overwhelmed or highly anxious. It can be a one-time ordeal such as a fatal car accident, a home invasion, *rape, or assault. Or it can be an ongoing situation like child abuse, **domestic...
What is Breathwork?

What is Breathwork?

Breathing is an involuntary brain function and it gets little attention. It happens automatically to keep you alive even during sleep. Breathwork is active respiration, an intentional breathing practice used to reach higher states of consciousness. Intentionally...
12 Ways to Love Yourself More

12 Ways to Love Yourself More

An old, familiar adage on the topic of self-love goes something like, “you have to love yourself before you can love somebody else.”  Easier said than done, right?  While it may feel like a massive hurdle to overcome, learning to truly love yourself can lead...
The Importance of Presence

The Importance of Presence

We live in a fast-paced and hectic society. Distractions and neverending stimuli are relentless in their pursuit of our attention. Alerts, notifications, pings, dings and snaps from our electronics demand our immediate reaction and we are quick to oblige. Meanwhile,...
Benefits of Forgiving Others

Benefits of Forgiving Others

Once someone has wronged you, forgiving them may be difficult. But true forgiveness has nothing to do with the other person; it is about your well-being, peace, and joy. Forgiving is not dismissing what someone did as okay or forgetting about an unfair situation. It...
Connecting With Your Inner Child

Connecting With Your Inner Child

As we grow older and experience life, many of us look for ways to quiet our inner little boy or little girl rather than take a deep dive into our subconscious. Over time, we may become bitter and jaded, forgetting how magical and extraordinary the world around us can...
Gratitude As a Way of Life

Gratitude As a Way of Life

Science tells us that an “attitude of gratitude” has positive effects on our health and wellness. Being grateful is consistently associated with feeling happier, more optimistic and appreciative. We can feel gratitude towards a person, a circumstance or...