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Clearing My Plate

  I do it to myself, the busyness, the overcommitment, the feeling that I am the only one that can do it, so I must do it all. In actuality the people and tasks that need me the most, I've been avoiding, telling myself they don't need me or not prioritizing appropriately.  This spring I was at a tipping point, each night I was either at a school event, teaching yoga, coaching Girls on the Run or driving from one place or another, speeding along the way, to be at an activity for my kids. We were barely eating diner together as a family, maybe once a week. I haven't been working out, even my work out app We Rise , reminded me that it's been a while since I tracked a workout. The house was a mess, dog hair everywhere, dishes in the sink, clean clothes in laundry baskets just being recirculated through and the bathrooms, don't let me get started on bathrooms. When you live on well water, bathrooms are the worst to clean.  You might be saying, why don't you get your ...
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Self-Compassion Workbook

 


Self-compassion helps us to honor our basic human experience without judgment. It gives us space to feel what we need to feel, how we need to feel it. It is the GRACE we need in order to thrive, not just survive.
Download this FREE Self-Compassion Workbook to invoke self-compassion into your life manage difficult situations, negative thoughts or moments of doubt.




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