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The face responds to what the mind is thinking. And luckily, the opposite is also true. As a kid, when I was anxiously concentrating on something, my mom would ask me, “Why are you making that face?” I had no idea I was doing anything with my face because I was very...
Anxiety can be a major trigger for back pain. I know this from experience. After injuring my back as a dancer when I was only 19, I explored all kinds of things to help me feel better. I went to doctors, physical therapists, chiropractors, and therapeutic massage...
Morning is a fresh start and can be one of the best times of the day. Still, we wonder why anxiety can be worse in the morning. This can have a lot to do with how we’ve slept, but we can’t change the night before. Anxiety can be caused by something we’re anticipating...
I have this sad, vivid memory of myself in college, sitting on my dorm room bed while a friend tried to help me calm down by giving me a paper bag to breathe into. I remember feeling so embarrassed and like I had hit some all-time low by displaying my anxiety in this...
It’s safe to say that I have mommy issues. After many years and lots of therapy, I’m very aware and honest about it. My mother is unique, loving, strong, wise, passionate, creative, daring, funny, emotional, fearful, and very anxious. As her daughter, I’ve inherited a...
Whenever I travel out of town, I try to hit up a local yoga studio for a class. I’m not a yoga student nearly as much as I’d like to be, so I soak up every moment. On a camping trip last week, my husband and I took an amazing class with Sesa O’Connor at Yoga Salt in...
Calming mantras for anxiety do work. I can say this with complete confidence because I was a total skeptic. Now the practice of repeating mantras has changed my life. At first, yoga poses and meditation felt a lot more natural to me than chanting mantras. I felt safe...
July 7, 2023 The Yoga Sutras don’t talk about codependency because that term wasn’t coined 5,000 years ago. The term codependency was first used in the 1950s in the Al-Anon program. The founders of AA discovered that the loved ones of alcoholics felt that their lives...
If you aren’t getting enough quality sleep, anxiety is sure to creep in. Bedtime Yoga can be an amazing tool for better sleep and less anxiety. I was sleep deprived for about 12 years of my adult life. And my mental health took a major toll because of it. I...
I came up with the term Free Spirit in an Anxious Body about 9 years ago. When I said the phrase in my mind, a lightbulb went off over my head. I finally had a way to describe myself that felt right. It fits like a glove. You probably know that you’re anxious, but...