Take a listen to this season’s Connection Call. We take time to do a ritual building demo with one of the Centered in the City members (thanks Mary!). We also discuss what’s working well and other requests.
Share your thoughts and takeaways with us in the comments below. Let’s keep supporting each other building resilience during these chaotic times.
Want to review your ritual? Follow the 7 steps here.
Grab your journal and get cozy!
Journal prompts:
What time is your ideal time to go to sleep?
How do you want to feel in the evening gap btw dinner and bed?
What activities feel nourishing to you?
When you experience friction and flow during this wind down time?
Podcast I mentioned on how radical rest is. Very great listen!
Revisit the Build Your Ritual prompts days 1-7 here.
Share your evening wind down and rituals with us below!
Part 1:
Part 2:
Materials:
Grab your journal & pen
Optional to listen to this Spotify Playlist here
Grant yourself lots of self-compassion and grace for this exercise
Journaling prompts:
Pick your shadow side quality first:
When does this shadow side show its face?
What’s the need underneath the shadow side?
Then pick your light qualities:
When does this light side show its face
What’s the need underneath the light side?
What are you noticing about how your shadow and light sides show up?
Share any thoughts and reflections in the comment section.
Today I discuss how to use the Mindful Hand of Self-Care framework to support you staying healthy and centered while traveling. I share how I used this framework on my recent 3 week travel excursion to the east coast. This framework helps create focus for how I can lean into caring for myself when on the road and I am in new places and spaces.
Reflection Questions:
How do you see the Mindful Hand of Self-Care can support you while traveling?
Which pillars (or finger) do you feel you need the most support with while on the road?
What are you open to trying the next time you travel?
Grab your mat and yourself and let’s get down to Pilates basics. This is an opportunity to learn foundational pilates principals that will help you feel more centered and strong in your body, on and off the mat.
Journal prompt:
Where in your life is calling for more tender self-compassion?
Where in your life is calling for any or all forms of fierce self-compassion?
Feel free to share your thoughts and takeaways with us in the comments!
Topic: 5 Hinderances
You will learn:
5 different mind states that can affect us living our values and taking action
Explore how to recognize them when they show up uniquely for you
A Skillful way on how to approach these mind states
Share your takeaways and learnings with us in the comments below!
Materials:
journal/pen
Create a cozy space for yourself
Practicing the pause during this transition phase. Here are some reflection questions to help make this next chapter more intentional:
What am I most grateful for from this past year?
What did I enjoy?
What was challenging and/or unpleasant?
What did you learn about yourself?
What values of your became more clear? Why?
What do you want to forward into this next phase?
How do you want to show up differently in this next chapter?
What’s longing to be held/heard/healed/acknowledged from this past year?
If you feel called, please feel free to share your takeaways below in the comments.
“ You have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens” - Louise Hay
Book I mentioned: You can Heal Your Life
Feel free to share your thoughts, comments and experience below.
(If you are watching the recording, the call officially starts at 7 min and 3 seconds).
This is the book I reference: Mindful Eating: A Guide to Rediscovering a Healthy and Joyful Relationship with Food, by Dr. Jan Bays
Reference these Mindful Eating tips in the “Reflect” section.
Please feel free to share your takeaway and action step in the comments below.
