Month: January 2019
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Tiny Tip
Tuesday’s Tiny Tip: Find and Post a Childhood Photo
You can increase your capacity for self-kindness and self-compassion with this tiny tip: Put up a childhood photo of yourself and look at it often. If you’re like me, you’ve spent decades being your own harshest critic, giving short shrift to your achievements and aiming your internal telescope unflinchingly on perceived shortcomings. A common affliction, […]
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Ten Minutes to Fight Arm Flab
For many of us, the challenge with exercise isn’t knowing what to do, but actually motivating ourselves to do it. I’m trying to add weight training to my regimen, and I bookmarked a bunch of 10-minute online workouts that I intended to incorporate daily. Shockingly (not shockingly) I haven’t actually been doing the workouts. All […]
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Self-care
Essential Self-Care, Vol. 1: The Hard Stuff
Before we get into all the little things we can do to treat ourselves well each day, we’ve got to get into the three biggies: rest, exercise and sustenance. These elements of self-care are so essential, all the self-help in the world can’t help if we’re not attending to these critical components. Entire books have […]
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Deepak Chopra shares three ways to instantly combat stress
(What I learned from the second week of Deepak’s “Healing the Whole Self” free online workshop.) (Also, I have to call him Deepak instead of Chopra because Deepak is so fun to say. Deepak.) Deepak started his healing workshop by talking about the “bodymind” and self-care. He continued that theme this week, with an increased […]
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Science of Happiness
Science of Happiness, Week Two: Connection
The first week of the UC Berkeley’s Science of Happiness course was all about defining happiness and why it’s worth seeking. Week two centers on the biology of connection: how humans are hard-wired to make deep social-emotional connections with one another, and how these close relationships contribute to overall happiness. Work prevented me from bingeing […]
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Tiny Tip
Tuesday’s Tiny Tip: Pomodoro Technique
This timer technique can be incredibly effective, especially when you need to focus on a task you’re reluctant to handle. Developed in the 1980s by Francesco Cirillo, who I guess invented setting a timer, the pomodoro technique is a time-management approach that calls for working in focused 25-minute blocks separated by five-minute breaks. (He apparently […]
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Simple Self-Care Win: New Underwear
Do not underestimate the happiness boost new underwear can bring. It’s hard to feel like you’re an amazing creature on the road to making your dreams come true if the first bit of clothing you put on each day is raggedy, ill-fitting, stretched out, ugly or otherwise unworthy of your fabulousness. It’s a fact of […]
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Poetic Inspiration (that I didn’t write)
As an English major, I was exposed to a lot of poetry in school. This was not one of the poems in the canon, but it struck me the moment I read it and I often think about its opening lines as I consider life and choices. I hope it inspires you as much as […]
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Deepak Chopra’s Self-Care Checklist
(What I learned from week one of Chopra’s “Healing the Whole Self” program) January’s happiness binge is underway: Deepak Chopra’s free workshop started this week! (I’m also taking UC Berkeley’s Science of Happiness course, which also just started. Plus Oprah is doing a 10-week interview series with Eckhart Tolle. Holy happiness overload!) Deepak (may I […]
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80 Baby Carrots
Experts say adults should consume at least 25 grams of fiber a day for optimum health, which can be found in 80 baby carrots. Now, I love baby carrots (especially dunked in hummus), but even stoner munchies wouldn’t have me eating 80 of them. So here are a few other tasty ways to get your […]
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