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04/18/2018

Anxiety is a thief. It robs us of our peace and happiness. Anxiety steals our ability to focus and concentrate making us less productive. It kills our creativity and can destroy our ability to hope for the best. From difficult but manageable symptoms such as elevated heart rate, shallow breathing and tension all the way to completely debilitating full blown panic attacks, anxiety touches all of us from time to time. However, when these issues begin invading our emotional and physical space on a regular basis our lives become disrupted and even unmanageable.
I can help identify some of the ways anxiety specifically affects you. Anxiety can be the result of something unresolved in our life or even some event that we haven't fully recovered from, so it continues to cause emotional and physical reactions.
I use light & color to assist in calming the out of control feelings that can accompany anxiety and other issues impacting our daily living. We all need professional help sometimes. It's your time to get the help you need to stop anxiety from stealing any more of your life!

03/11/2018

ARE YOU PRACTICING SELF COMPASSION?
I was talking to a colleague last week and she challenged me regarding an area of my life where I was struggling and feeling really disappointed in myself. She said, “show yourself some compassion!”

This was extremely helpful to me and got me thinking about, what IS self compassion? I feel I have self confidence in general, but in this one area I was not feeling confident but like a failure! Self-confidence is generally based on self perceived success and we often compare ourselves to others in order to achieve a sense of success and confidence.

Self compassion on the other hand acknowledges our imperfections and accepts them. None of us are perfect and we often beat ourselves up for something that we would show love and encouragement to someone else. Jesus taught us to love our neighbor as ourself. This implies his expectation that we first love ourselves! If we are thinking badly about ourselves, we won’t have hearts full of love to show our neighbors.

Think about places in your life that you are harshly judging yourself and think about what you would say to someone else if they were struggling in that same area. How would you encourage them? Then turn around and say those things to yourself!

Let’s start exhibiting more compassion. First to ourselves and then to others!

03/09/2018