by HeartLight Center | Mar 14, 2023 | HeartLight Center Blog
I’ve been in the wellness industry for over 10 years, and it is still hard for me to talk about self-care. The main issue is this: nothing anyone else has to say can answer for the most critical aspect of self-care practices, the Self. Sometimes it can be...
by HeartLight Center | Mar 13, 2023 | HeartLight Center Blog
There are hundreds, if not thousands of articles, blogs and lists of what to say and what not to say to someone who is grieving. In nearly every grief group we facilitate the topic of, “I can’t believe he/she said that…” comes up. Why is it that when we are supporting...
by HeartLight Center | Feb 10, 2023 | HeartLight Center Blog
Tending to Grief with Yoga When grief lands in our lives, our bodies feel it all. Everything we have lost, our bodies have lost. Our nervous system often regulates our emotions into waves – reaching our capacity of how much we can feel and helping us, over time,...
by HeartLight Center | Feb 10, 2023 | Heart to Heart
Dear Fellow Griever, I thought that I was prepared for my mom to die…she had fallen and broken her hip, had a stroke after the surgery to repair the fracture, went to rehab and worked her way back to her assisted living facility but was never the same. Her health...
by HeartLight Center | Jan 10, 2023 | Heart to Heart
Dear Grieving Heart, Do you feel mad about your grief? I’ve felt so mad. Mad that I’m in this space. That I’m navigating a “new normal” that I didn’t ask for. Angry that my person is gone, my world crumbled. I don’t always feel safe, I feel exposed and raw. I hate the...
