Marnie Hol

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Marnie Hol

Marnie has been actively training in the wellness field for over 25 years.

Starting with psychology and from there studying a variety of healing modalities she has developed programs that are easy to follow, enjoyable, and very effective. At Turning Point my programs teach you practical, everyday skills that can be used to create your brighter future. A variety of scientifically validated techniques are used to help alleviate stress, unhelpful thoughts, and adverse coping patterns. By combining both cognitive practices and specialized physical movements you learn new patterns and habits that lead to a more balanced and confident life. Specializing in group or private sessions for anxiety, depression, pain and discomfort, pre- and post-operative, and illness.

05/06/2023

Worry Free Day

Walking down the sidewalk, I noticed how relaxed everyone looked. Contrary to me, my shoulders were tight, and my forehead felt furrowed. I wanted to know their secret, so I asked a woman. She smiled, and asked, “When is the last time you had a worry-free day?” After observing my worried face, she said, “You never have! I thought so.” She explained, "The key to good health is less worry, which means less stress. Therefore, occasionally taking a day to rest from your personal worries and concerns about the world is beneficial, both physically and mentally. And yes, there is a lot of worry out there, but you needn’t be involved in every worry. Stay with the ones that need to be attended to and remind yourself that you're only one person with superpowers, but not superpowers galore!"

Choose a day to not worry. I'm going to choose tomorrow for my worry-free day – will you join me? Put a sign beside your bed to remind you when you wake up, ‘This is an official worry-free day.’ You can even put something like an elastic on your wrist to remind you. Every time a worry comes up tell it, “Oh didn't you hear, today is a worry-free day? Come back tomorrow if you must.” And remind your shoulders and face they don’t need to sneak in and do the worrying for you. Enjoy your day, and who knows some of your worries may disappear and you’ll be relaxed!

~ Marnie

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
~Leo Buscaglia

03/08/2023

In honour of women’s international day:
In 1792 Mary Wollstonecraft wrote the book “Vindication of the Rights of Woman.”
She called for women to become educated and insisted women should be free to enter business, pursue professional careers, and vote if they wished. She recommended vigorous physical exercise to help stimulate the mind.
She took responsibility for her life. She urged everyone to achieve his or her human potential.

She championed relationships based on mutual respect and love.

Wollstonecraft dreamed that someday men and women would nurture each other as equals. (Two hundred and thirty-one years later we are making progress, but we are still not there)!

Let’s all do our part to keep her dream going forward!

03/03/2023

The Tranquility Shop
The sign on the door said, "Welcome to the Tranquility Shop". Wow I could use some of that I thought as I stepped into the room. At first it took me a couple of moments to adjust to the subdued light and hear the gentle soothing music playing. Walking around the shop I chose a lovely candle, my favourite relaxing oil, and a soft blanket. My attention was then drawn to a beautiful comfortable looking chair. Was it my imagination? Or did I just hear the chair say “Marnie, come sit on me!” That's crazy I thought as I looked around. The shopkeeper smiled and gestured for me to sit.

I wrapped myself in the soft blanket, smelled the beautiful oil filling the air, and enjoyed the most comfortable chair. Magically my candle lit sending out a soft glow. I felt tension releasing and it felt so good. I could feel my eyes soften, my jaw loosen, and my shoulders release down, and my mind slow down.

The fun part is this room is created in my imagination, and it works because the brain often can’t tell the difference between what is real and what isn’t real. Any time you feel stress building up, pause for a moment, and imagine your own tranquility shop. Step in, slow your breathing, and rest in the chair for a couple of minutes. Your "shopkeeper" will thank you. And the more you do that, the more tranquil your day will be!

02/02/2023

The Powerful Pencil
It occurred to me one day when I was writing how powerful my pencil is. You see my pencil is capable of writing something spiteful, funny, wise, dramatic, or sad. In each case the words it writes can change my mood. And at the same time, my mood can be changed by the words I write!

For example, if I am writing something depressive, if I began to change the words to a more cheerful topic, that could be quite magical. I could even elaborate and write what I would do now that I was feeling uplifted. If I was stressed, I could write how it would be for me to handle the stressful situation in a state of calmness. If I was berating myself and I wrote how I was being kind to myself instead, wouldn’t that make me feel better?

I always have a choice; I can use my pencil to make myself feel bad or use it in an empowering way to guide my emotions towards a helpful direction.

I could liken my pencil to my thoughts. If my thoughts are unhelpful for the situation and causing me to feel bad, I could stop that train of thoughts and imagine picking up my pencil and what words do I need to write to make the situation better? And how will I do that? And then how will I feel? I could have several coloured pencils and choose the colour I want, such as right now I would like to feel peaceful, so I’ll use my green pencil, yellow for brightness, orange for joy! Let your pencil flow with goodness……
~ Marnie

01/09/2023

The Book of Wisdom
Walking into an imaginary room I see it filled with books. I am drawn to a green book titled ‘Wisdom'. I read the first page and it says ‘This Book Is for You.’ The second page is blank. The third page the print is so small I can’t read it. Perplexed I flip to the middle of the book, and on that page, there is a beautiful glowing heart. I laugh because now I understand the 'Book of Wisdom.'

This book is a reminder that our life is an incredible set of blank pages, and it is up to us, not others to write the pages of our life. We get to decide how large of print we want to go through life with, knowing that if we continue to grow and expand, so will the print of our life grow, for all our loved ones to joyfully celebrate with us, and leaving beautiful stories to re-read and enjoy. Our book won’t be the most perfect book, because no one is perfect, and the pages will have ups and downs because that is part of being a human. However, the most important message is to let our hearts guide us with kindness and empathy towards others and ourselves.

So my question for you is: What will be on your 2023 pages?

When I find my heart is kind
To all I meet and greet
I am filled with Light to my delight
When my heart glows within I win💜

-Marnie

12/06/2022

Act of Kindness

There was a knock on my door, and upon opening the door to my disbelief I saw a little angel with the sweetest smile and demeanour holding a heart. In the loveliest voice the angel said “Hello, as you know Christmas is fast approaching for those who celebrate it, and perhaps you have already noticed people are getting excited for the holiday and their get togethers with family and friends which is so wonderful. However, there is a favour I would like to ask of you, because not everyone is looking forward to the holidays. Some people have family that live far away, some are grieving, some ill, depressed, some lonely, others have lost their jobs, perhaps a breakup of a relationship, or the family is experiencing turmoil. And Christmas can be a very difficult time for them. If you know of someone that fits into any of these categories, or one I haven’t mentioned, could you remember to show them a kindness? It doesn’t have to be anything much, some baked cookies, a card, sharing a coffee, a smile.”
Then she reached for my palm and placed some small cards in it and gently closed my fingers and with a twinkle in her eyes she was gone.Here's what the cards said:

Every act of kindness,
Reminds us
That our heart
Can Impart
The Sharing
Of Caring

And now dear reader I’d like to ask you to turn on your imagination, close your eyes, hold out your hand, and now I’m placing one of her cards in your hand. ~Marnie

11/02/2022

Remember the last time you had an argument with someone that you found difficult to let go? Likely because you were so upset, no matter how hard you tried, you kept reliving the argument in your mind, even though the argument was over. By continuing to let the argument take center stage in your mind, you actually elevated the argument to the top thought in your mind. Here are some ideas for next time you find yourself in an argument, as we all know they are part of being human!

After an argument, you could ask yourself, is being angry how I want to spend my precious time? To help you let the argument go, visualize the two of you, on a teeter totter. The more you relive the argument, the higher you put the person on the teeter totter, and the lower you go because that is all that you are focusing on.

Next visualize straightening your legs, so you rise higher on the teeter totter which causes the other person to come down. Of course this doesn’t change what happened, but you are changing your reaction to the argument. Now that you are higher on the teeter totter your perspective changes by seeing the argument as small in the big scheme of things. You can now choose a mindset of peace rather than contributing to anger. This lets you choose healthy, more interesting and more inspiring thoughts to focus on.

Lastly, bring out the kid out that’s inside of you, and run over to the slide and climb high! See the view from up there, more expanded, more full of potential. Your life is more than than focusing on your argument. Enjoy the slide, and get on with your next adventure!

10/07/2022

We All Have Our Wipers On

Imagine that you are driving your car at night on the freeway and suddenly it starts to pour torrential rain - you can’t see the road ahead of you. Instinctively you do one of two things, you slam your foot on the brake and come to an abrupt stop or you slow down so that you can put your windshield wipers on high. You choose to slow down.

The wipers clear the window enough for you to be able to see where you are going, not perfectly but enough to continue driving. Because it is uncomfortable driving in such nerve-wracking weather you feel yourself tensing up and the feeling of unease causes your neck to tighten even more. As you continue to drive you become completely absorbed with driving in the storm you are amid. Interestingly the driver coming in the opposite direction as you or the driver following behind you are also going through the same storm. You don’t know them and probably will never lay eyes on them, yet you’re all going through the same storm.

And isn’t that true about most of the ‘storms’ we go through in life, likely others are experiencing the same storm. Perhaps they react differently from how we do, maybe they slam on the brakes, but when you stop and think about it everyone is trying to get through the storm the best way they know how. We might not agree on how they do it, but by understanding that they have their wipers on too perhaps we can be more compassionate towards each other.

-Marnie

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