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Increasing your awareness of your 5 senses (see, feel, hear, smell, taste), is a mindfulness practice that grounds you. -Calm app
How we react/respond to small stressors, builds habits, preserve your energy to address/manage more significant stressors. -Calm app
Mindful concentration/focus reduces anxiety, both cannot co-exist equally. -Calm app
Current U.S. stats from RAINN (Rape, Abuse, & Incest National Network) Every 68 seconds sexual assault occurs. 1 out of 6 women (about 18%) have
Psychiatrist Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, M.D. “The Body Keeps The Score” book/audio book: Cortisol stress hormone does not get back to baseline for traumatized
Unhelpful gratitude is telling yourself how you “should” be grateful vs helpful gratitude is being genuinely grateful for what you do have or what is
Most journeys are not linear. Most growth happens in the middle of the journey. There is not always a set destination. Journeys look different for
Empower yourself by your reaction, response, and behavior to what you cannot control. -yoga instructor