Working with Suppressed Emotions
When we suppress our emotions, we don’t just push down our negative emotions but also our positive ones. Suppressing our emotions limits our ability to express ourselves fully in life, robbing us of joy, love…
Category: Body Awareness
Change Your Energy Through Movement + Breath
How you breathe is how you feel, and how your body moves is a big part of that. You can do all the self-help exercises, hit the gym, and push yourself to the max but…
Energy Needs to Flow
Everything is energy and when energy is stuck or inhibited, nothing flows. Thoughts and feelings can’t flow through and you feel energetically stagnant. That’s what my experience has been, at least. I have felt like…
Are you hiding behind your striving?
Are our attempts at self-improvement really ways to mask our own feelings of inadequacy? This question been on my mind since seeing this video on disliking yourself. Now it’s not apparent to me that I…
Microdosing: Day 29
Embrace the fear. Lean into yourself. Experience what you’re hiding from and open yourself to the experience that you’re having right now. As I continue to lean into feeling myself in the present moment, I…
Microdosing: Day 27
“If you’re not having fun, you’re not doing it right” That’s my sentiment today: that life should be fun and if you’re not having fun then you’re probably doing it wrong. But life isn’t always…
Microdosing: Day 18
Today was the first day where I felt the familiar feeling of despair come back to greet me. It could have been that second pot of coffee in the afternoon or that I seemed to…
Microdosing: Day 17
I’m finding that the mind I had before is the mind I still have now, replete with the same well of future-focused anxiety and dread, but it’s wrapped in cotton. The blow is softened. It…
Microdosing: Day 12
Again, there’s no noticeable effect from taking the capsule in terms of feeling “high” but the mood stabilizing effects are there. In the past, where I might have felt overwhelmed or despair, these feelings do…
Microdosing: Day 7
Dosed again today after 2 days off. No noticeable alterations in consciousness (which is to be expected). Feelings of general wellbeing and calmness remain. It’s really quite remarkable, the feeling of general contentment and the…