Overcoming Life’s Overwhelming Moments
Here’s the thing. Any kind of trauma can deeply affect your heart, mind, and body. Sometimes there is a clear trigger. Sometimes it just comes out of nowhere. If trauma is left untreated, it can lead to long-term, serious mental illnesses like anxiety and depression. It’s all related.
The Anatomy of Trust
Here is some inspiration for your morning. We know you love Brené Brown. We love her too. This SuperSoul Sunday talk is all about the anatomy of trust. For most women in trauma, trust is a huge issue. How can they ever trust their partner again? How do they know who they can really trust in their lives? For most, trust is such a pain-filled topic.
Tell Me It’s Going to be Okay
Sometimes you just need someone to tell you it is going to be okay. We can tell ourselves that we are enough and that it is okay to feel what we are feeling. We can tell ourselves that “it is what it is.” But sometimes it is hard to believe ourselves.
Emotional Wabi Sabi: What Does That Mean?
We have been promoting our class “Emotional Wabi Sabi” with Life Coach Stace Christianson this week. Many of you may be wondering what Wabi Sabi is. Wabi Sabi is a Japanese aesthetic in art that focuses on highlighting the imperfections, the irregularities, the rough patches. They believe that the imperfections are what make something beautiful.
Happy Birthday to Bloom!
It’s Bloom’s first birthday on Wednesday, August 3rd, and to celebrate, we are bringing you all sorts of goodies this week. We will be running Facebook and Instagram contests throughout the week with fun prizes and gift certificates. It has been a pleasure to be with you in your hard spaces and bring a little light and love back into your lives.
Happy Weekend!
Hello Friday! To get your weekend off to a good start, we present this weeks links. Whether it is the fabulous stylings of Fred Astaire or the amazing salsa dancing dog, we hope that there is a dance party in your weekend plans. Dance parties are great stress relievers and these moments of untamed movement can be very healing.
Living With Intention
One of the hardest things about trauma is that you feel like you are living your life underwater. What you thought was your life, actually isn’t. It’s completely different. There is a major adjustment period as you navigate through betrayal, acceptance, and healing. So how do you get out of the water and live the life that you want?
Epic Fails and Trying to be Perfect
How often do we get praised for failure? It seems like never, and yet only through making mistakes, failing, can we actually get better. In terms of emotional work, fear of failing can keep us in situations that are dangerous and toxic. It can keep us from getting help. It can keep us from getting to know others and forming a support group. So much of healing comes through accepting the role of mistakes and failure and learning from them.
Friday Fun Links
One of the best things you can do during hard times, is fill your feed, your home, and your life with positivity. This doesn’t mean that you are naive to what is happening in the world. In fact, some of the most positive people we know are also very informed and aware of darkness. But they work to end that darkness by shining brightly for themselves and for others. So this next week, we encourage you to recommit to self-care, find ways to be creative, and nourish the light within you.
Why We Need Boundaries
Boundaries. When you have experienced trauma, boundaries are a necessity for your own personal growth and safety. A boundary is setting an expectation with clear definitions of what you can and cannot handle. A good boundary identifies what is your responsibility and what is not. Boundaries can be especially hard to set with our family and friends, especially when disfunction already exists.