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How to Forest Bathe, Regulate Your Nervous System & Connect with Mother Earth

Jodie Gale · Leave a Comment

This blog is about how to forest bathe. Forest bathing or shinrin-yoku means to bathe in a forest atmosphere and to connect with ourselves and the earth, through all of our senses. The fundamental issue underlying addiction, anxiety, childhood trauma, depression, disordered … [Read more...] about How to Forest Bathe, Regulate Your Nervous System & Connect with Mother Earth

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5 Basic Needs To Help You Heal From Childhood Trauma

Jodie Gale · Leave a Comment

When it comes to basic needs, people who suffer from complex trauma typically have (or had) parents who were unavailable in some way (e.g., depression, addiction, narcissism) and who lived in a household where the primary care system was too absent, too controlling or too … [Read more...] about 5 Basic Needs To Help You Heal From Childhood Trauma

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9 ways to help you feel good enough in tough times

Lindley Ashline · Leave a Comment

Feeling good enough is hard when times are tough. Though our normal lives didn't stop when the novel coronavirus (which causes the illness COVID-19) began spreading across the globe in early 2020, they got immensely more complicated. Our lives can be challenging in normal times, … [Read more...] about 9 ways to help you feel good enough in tough times

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4 Things You and Your Body Deserve Right Now — At Any Size

Lindley Ashline ·

Photo by McKinsey on RawPixel. It's as reliable as the seasons: the latest diet fad. In the past, it's been Atkins, South Beach or the Mediterranean diet. This year it's Keto and intermittent fasting. Next year, it'll be something else. If you've jumped on the dieting wagon, … [Read more...] about 4 Things You and Your Body Deserve Right Now — At Any Size

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Trauma Warriors™ for Women

© Painting by Arna Baartz. Commissioned by Jodie Gale. … [Read more...] about Trauma Warriors™ for Women

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