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The Butterfly Hug: A Self-Soothing Technique for Healing and Calm
The Butterfly Hug is a powerful and accessible self-soothing technique that can help people process difficult emotions, calm anxiety, and restore a sense of safety and grounding. The Butterfly Hug is kid-friendly and can help children and teens manage emotions and self-regulate.
Ujjayi Breath
Ujjayi breath is more than just a breathing technique; it’s a powerful tool for mindfulness, physical well-being, and emotional regulation. Whether you’re dealing with stress, preparing for birth, or seeking a deeper connection with your yoga practice, Ujjayi breath can help center and keep you present.
The Anti-anxiety Breath: Physiological Sigh
The physiological sigh or cyclic sighing is a simple anti-anxiety breath that can be done anywhere anytime. It works on the spot! A new study from Stanford Medicine suggests the physiological (or cyclic) sigh is a powerful way to combat anxiety.
Laugh Off Stress! 5 Ways Laughter Can Relieve Stress
Humor and laughter have been shown to profoundly impact our overall health and well-being. When it comes to managing stress and anxiety, humor can play an important role. Here’s why.
How to Create Breast Health Everyday
As many women have since the 50s, I was taught to do breast self-exams (BSE) for early detection of breast cancer. For years I was terrified of what I could find if I touched my breasts. This monthly search-and-destroy mission, as Dr. Susan Love, a breast cancer expert calls it, alienates us from our bodies.
Dads and Birth Trauma
One area that is often neglected in childbirth discussions is the emotional impact that childbirth has on dads/partners. Whenever there is a traumatic birth so much is going on with mom and baby, that the dad's experience can be relegated, ignored or buried....
Move Your Lymph for Breast Health!
Every 13 minutes a woman dies in this country of breast cancer. Instead of the monthly “search-and-destroy mission” of the old breast self-exam, breast self-massage helps us to get to know what is normal for our breasts in a proactive and loving way.
Letting Go In Childbirth and In LIFE
I am convinced that when a woman is supported in a way that create a sense of safety for her, when she has the space to experience her fears, her thoughts, to explore the depths of her soul… then… she can enter the Mystery and surrender.
All about sperm. It takes two to tango!
Research has found correlation between the father’s health and lifestyle and miscarriage, infertility, childhood cancers and birth defects. The good news for those trying to conceive (TTC) is that it takes 100 days for sperm to develop.