How Journaling Activates Your Brain for Resilience and Self-Regulation 'ask dorothy' The WISDOM podcast  Season 5  Episode 108 ~ I've always expressed to clients, the importance and therapeutic benefit of writing as a practice for  being able to process and understand an experience and to find answers and comfort in what is called expressive writing.   When you write about your feelings, research from brain scans show us that the prefrontal cortex (the region of the brain responsible for reasoning) begins to synchronize with the amygdala (which is the region of the brain that processes emotions.) Journal writing is this tool that allows the brain to be able to both communicate and understand. Here I share the five forms of journaling together with what happens in the brain (and for you) as you experience their positive affects. Please reach out to me  if you would like my help in using journaling as a tool for healing, for resilience and self-regulation. Namaste 💗 ~ Additional Resources: Expressive Writing  Scientific Research on Journaling ~   The JUNO Holiday Shoppe is here! Check out our first original item ~ Holiday Cards 💌  ~  Find the complete Holiday Shoppe inside the Juno app   Download Juno here     ~ Namaste and love to you 💗   Watch the Video here ~   Sending you great 💜 love...     Book a Discovery Session here Let's work together!  Book a Therapy session here...     Work with Me + Transformational Coaching      JUNO 💜 Love-Heal-Transform Meditation ~ Mental Health ~ Spirituality ~ Self-Care *As a special 'podcast listener' use this link for $5 off your first month of JUNO Premium!    Promo Code:  WISDOMPODCAST   Each month inside The JUNO app we post curated inspirational messages, wisdom and love. It's a way for you to experience another aspect of what we offer in Juno - A sacred community and a positive way to connect with other like-minded individuals ~ to celebrate life and its sacred teachings.     ~ Journey with me!  Subscribe to the podcast and enjoy each episode as they are released twice weekly + write a review and share the love (share this episode with someone you love! 💟👌) ~ Namaste 💗   Become a Patron of The WISDOM podcast here I would love if you did! ~ Namaste 💜     Live Session Info: I host free weekly 'live sessions.'  Please check them out and join me! Aura Mindfulness app Insight Timer Meditation app JUNO app     Visit my Website and The Wisdom Archives ~ meditations, sacred teachings, guidance and wisdom for your life ~

Finding Peace in Death and Dying  The WISDOM podcast  Season 5  Episode 107 ~ Your Mantra:  'The customary traditions of dying and eternal life mark the sheer wonder of love ever present and now a part of me.'   For the greatest way to find peace in the experience of death is to create and live peace each day of your life ~ to enable this to be present in all of your relationships simply by holding presence to peace yourself.   The creative commitment you hold to life's invaluable moments forever shines light on your willingness to hold integrity for what is known in the simple pleasures of each new moment before you.   Death and dying become an experience that we live far more aware of ~ our own mortality included. It is for the ability to see and know the sacred in all of life's moments - to not fear the future. To live in the greatest possible expression of the present and all towards loving the perfection of yourself lived here ~ and now.   Find solace in grief through the resolve to live in the present ~ to embrace the expressions of all that life has given you and to understand that tenderness and love unto yourself and to all others is the path to living in grace, in harmony in peace.   If you would like my help as you navigate your personal experiences of death and dying and the loss that you feel ~ please reach out to me for individual work that honours what you need.  Thank you ~ Namaste 💗   Audio Engineering: Pavel Kirpikau ~   Join us on a NEW 21 Day Journey The Alchemy of Abundance ~  Join the 21 Day Journey here This is a FREE Experiential Journey.😀💛💫 We offer this in the Juno app Download Juno here     ~ Namaste and love to you 💗   Watch the Video here ~   Sending you great 💜 love...     Book a Discovery Session here Let's work together!  Book a Therapy session here...     Work with Me + Transformational Coaching      JUNO 💜 Love-Heal-Transform Meditation ~ Mental Health ~ Spirituality ~ Self-Care *As a special 'podcast listener' use this link for $5 off your first month of JUNO Premium!    Promo Code:  WISDOMPODCAST   Each month inside The JUNO app we post curated inspirational messages, wisdom and love. It's a way for you to experience another aspect of what we offer in Juno - A sacred community and a positive way to connect with other like-minded individuals ~ to celebrate life and its sacred teachings.     ~ Journey with me!  Subscribe to the podcast and enjoy each episode as they are released twice weekly + write a review and share the love (share this episode with someone you love! 💟👌) ~ Namaste 💗   Become a Patron of The WISDOM podcast here I would love if you did! ~ Namaste 💜     Live Session Info: I host free weekly 'live sessions.'  Please check them out and join me! Aura Mindfulness app Insight Timer Meditation app JUNO app     Visit my Website and The Wisdom Archives ~ meditations, sacred teachings, guidance and wisdom for your life ~    

Are You Trauma Dumping? 'ask dorothy' The WISDOM podcast  Season 5  Episode 106 ~ Most people when they become aware ~ and they understand what they are doing will make an effort to find a better route to helping themselves. They will realize that repeating their trauma stories doesn't make them feel better. And should this continue to happen, it will give you options for what new boundaries you place around this relationship and ~ your willingness to proactively address the other persons continued behavior with the questions that I share here...   ~   Join us on a NEW 21 Day Journey The Alchemy of Abundance ~  Join the 21 Day Journey here This is a FREE experiential journey.😀💛💫 We offer this in the Juno app Download Juno here     ~ Namaste and love to you 💗   Watch the Video here ~   Sending you great 💜 love...     Book a Discovery Session here Let's work together!  Book a Therapy session here...     Work with Me + Transformational Coaching      JUNO 💜 Love-Heal-Transform Meditation ~ Mental Health ~ Spirituality ~ Self-Care *As a special 'podcast listener' use this link for $5 off your first month of JUNO Premium!    Promo Code:  WISDOMPODCAST   Each month inside The JUNO app we post curated inspirational messages, wisdom and love. It's a way for you to experience another aspect of what we offer in Juno - A sacred community and a positive way to connect with other like-minded individuals ~ to celebrate life and its sacred teachings.     ~ Journey with me!  Subscribe to the podcast and enjoy each episode as they are released twice weekly + write a review and share the love (share this episode with someone you love! 💟👌) ~ Namaste 💗   Become a Patron of The WISDOM podcast here I would love if you did! ~ Namaste 💜     Live Session Info: I host free weekly 'live sessions.'  Please check them out and join me! Aura Mindfulness app Insight Timer Meditation app JUNO app     Visit my Website and The Wisdom Archives ~ meditations, sacred teachings, guidance and wisdom for your life ~

Navigating Grief and Loss at the Holidays  The WISDOM podcast  Season 5  Episode 105 ~ Loss and grief can add a distinctive layering to this time of year, especially if your history with that person has included wonderful past holiday experiences shared together.   I'll be sharing with you the best ways in which you can feel relief and comfort together with a resolve you make towards living differently because of what you know to be a better set of choices and a greater presence of kindness and love.   I want to state here that this isn't about taking away your grief. Grieving is a healthy and often productive means of navigating great loss. If you are grieving because what has been left unfinished or in cases where you haven't had an opportunity to say goodbye or to have the conversation to understand why if this is a breakup that you didn't expect.   Audio Engineering: Pavel Kirpikau ~   Join us on a NEW 21 Day Journey The Alchemy of Abundance ~  Join the 21 Day Journey here This is a FREE Experiential Journey.😀💛💫 We offer this in the Juno app Download Juno here     ~ Namaste and love to you 💗   Watch the Video here ~   Sending you great 💜 love...     Book a Discovery Session here Let's work together!  Book a Therapy session here...     Work with Me + Transformational Coaching      JUNO 💜 Love-Heal-Transform Meditation ~ Mental Health ~ Spirituality ~ Self-Care *As a special 'podcast listener' use this link for $5 off your first month of JUNO Premium!    Promo Code:  WISDOMPODCAST   Each month inside The JUNO app we post curated inspirational messages, wisdom and love. It's a way for you to experience another aspect of what we offer in Juno - A sacred community and a positive way to connect with other like-minded individuals ~ to celebrate life and its sacred teachings.     ~ Journey with me!  Subscribe to the podcast and enjoy each episode as they are released twice weekly + write a review and share the love (share this episode with someone you love! 💟👌) ~ Namaste 💗   Become a Patron of The WISDOM podcast here I would love if you did! ~ Namaste 💜     Live Session Info: I host free weekly 'live sessions.'  Please check them out and join me! Aura Mindfulness app Insight Timer Meditation app JUNO app     Visit my Website and The Wisdom Archives ~ meditations, sacred teachings, guidance and wisdom for your life ~    

Help Me Understand... Why? 'ask dorothy' The WISDOM podcast  Season 5  Episode 104 ~   It's one of the reasons why someone chooses therapy - they want to understand the reasons why they find themselves abandoning new healthy habits, why they get off track or give up all too easily, why their reactions to some situations of the present feel so visceral and instinctive to what they've lived in the past, ~ Ultimately clients want to carve out the life they truly desire. Understanding why they fall back or give up before they accomplish a goal is helpful to respond and react differently each time this happens.   I want to show you how you can better understand the why to your question. How you can find the answers that will help you choose better in the very next moment.   Your understanding begins with your thoughts. Let me show you.   ~   Join us on a NEW 21 Day Journey The Alchemy of Abundance ~  Join the 21 Day Journey here This is a FREE experiential journey.😀💛💫 We offer this in the Juno app Download Juno here     ~ Namaste and love to you 💗   Watch the Video here ~   Sending you great 💜 love...     Book a Discovery Session here Let's work together!  Book a Therapy session here...     Work with Me + Transformational Coaching      JUNO 💜 Love-Heal-Transform Meditation ~ Mental Health ~ Spirituality ~ Self-Care *As a special 'podcast listener' use this link for $5 off your first month of JUNO Premium!    Promo Code:  WISDOMPODCAST   Each month inside The JUNO app we post curated inspirational messages, wisdom and love. It's a way for you to experience another aspect of what we offer in Juno - A sacred community and a positive way to connect with other like-minded individuals ~ to celebrate life and its sacred teachings.     ~ Journey with me!  Subscribe to the podcast and enjoy each episode as they are released twice weekly + write a review and share the love (share this episode with someone you love! 💟👌) ~ Namaste 💗   Become a Patron of The WISDOM podcast here I would love if you did! ~ Namaste 💜     Live Session Info: I host free weekly 'live sessions.'  Please check them out and join me! Aura Mindfulness app Insight Timer Meditation app JUNO app     Visit my Website and The Wisdom Archives ~ meditations, sacred teachings, guidance and wisdom for your life ~    

'timefulness' ~ A Meditation of Presence The WISDOM podcast  Season 5  Episode 103 ~ 'Time is but a measure of the instances of infinity ~ one moment unto the next. One vision for the remarkable in all things.'   Begin to notice the true experience of holding presence ~ the appreciation for each singular moment, so very precious. The idea of timefulness is: that life's meaning lives in each precious moment.  Life's gentle witnessing ~ the calling, unto forever.   Audio Engineering: Pavel Kirpikau ~   Join us on a NEW 21 Day Journey The Alchemy of Abundance ~  Join the 21 Day Journey here This is a FREE Experiential Journey.😀💛💫 We offer this in the Juno app Download Juno here     ~ Namaste and love to you 💗   Watch the Video here ~   Sending you great 💜 love...     Book a Discovery Session here Let's work together!  Book a Therapy session here...     Work with Me + Transformational Coaching      JUNO 💜 Love-Heal-Transform Meditation ~ Mental Health ~ Spirituality ~ Self-Care *As a special 'podcast listener' use this link for $5 off your first month of JUNO Premium!    Promo Code:  WISDOMPODCAST   Each month inside The JUNO app we post curated inspirational messages, wisdom and love. It's a way for you to experience another aspect of what we offer in Juno - A sacred community and a positive way to connect with other like-minded individuals ~ to celebrate life and its sacred teachings.     ~ Journey with me!  Subscribe to the podcast and enjoy each episode as they are released twice weekly + write a review and share the love (share this episode with someone you love! 💟👌) ~ Namaste 💗   Become a Patron of The WISDOM podcast here I would love if you did! ~ Namaste 💜     Live Session Info: I host free weekly 'live sessions.'  Please check them out and join me! Aura Mindfulness app Insight Timer Meditation app JUNO app     Visit my Website and The Wisdom Archives ~ meditations, sacred teachings, guidance and wisdom for your life ~    

This is Self-Awareness 'ask dorothy' The WISDOM podcast  Season 5  Episode 102 ~   Careful first steps of Self-Awareness: ~ To seek ongoing knowledge and information derived from accurate self-observation ~ and the willingness to see one's self honestly. ~ To observe one's thoughts, feelings and actions in the present moment, accurately. This is how you build a relationship of ongoing self-discovery and self-knowledge.   Self-discovery and self-understanding are what lead you into the true knowledge of who you are. This leads you towards knowing who you truly want to be.   If you would like my help to live more self-aware and self-empowered please reach out to me. Let me help.   ~   Join us on a NEW 21 Day Journey The Alchemy of Abundance ~  Join the 21 Day Journey here This is a FREE experiential journey.😀💛💫 We offer this in the Juno app Download Juno here     ~ Namaste and love to you 💗   Watch the Video here ~   Sending you great 💜 love...     Book a Discovery Session here Let's work together!  Book a Therapy session here...     Work with Me + Transformational Coaching      JUNO 💜 Love-Heal-Transform Meditation ~ Mental Health ~ Spirituality ~ Self-Care *As a special 'podcast listener' use this link for $5 off your first month of JUNO Premium!    Promo Code:  WISDOMPODCAST   Each month inside The JUNO app we post curated inspirational messages, wisdom and love. It's a way for you to experience another aspect of what we offer in Juno - A sacred community and a positive way to connect with other like-minded individuals ~ to celebrate life and its sacred teachings.     ~ Journey with me!  Subscribe to the podcast and enjoy each episode as they are released twice weekly + write a review and share the love (share this episode with someone you love! 💟👌) ~ Namaste 💗   Become a Patron of The WISDOM podcast here I would love if you did! ~ Namaste 💜     Live Session Info: I host free weekly 'live sessions.'  Please check them out and join me! Aura Mindfulness app Insight Timer Meditation app JUNO app     Visit my Website and The Wisdom Archives ~ meditations, sacred teachings, guidance and wisdom for your life ~    

Ethereal Sleep ~ A Sleep Meditation The WISDOM podcast  Season 5  Episode 101 ~ ~ ethereal ~ ~ celestrial, exquisite, intangible ~ ~ the feeling of being exremely delicate and light in a way that seems to be 'not of this world' ~   Music by Alex Bainter ~ "Lullaby' Audio Engineering: Pavel Kirpikau ~   Join us on a NEW 21 Day Journey The Alchemy of Abundance ~  Join the 21 Day Journey here This is a FREE Experiential Journey.😀💛💫 We offer this in the Juno app Download Juno here     ~ Namaste and love to you 💗   Watch the Video here ~   Sending you great 💜 love...     Book a Discovery Session here Let's work together!  Book a Therapy session here...     Work with Me + Transformational Coaching      JUNO 💜 Love-Heal-Transform Meditation ~ Mental Health ~ Spirituality ~ Self-Care *As a special 'podcast listener' use this link for $5 off your first month of JUNO Premium!    Promo Code:  WISDOMPODCAST   Each month inside The JUNO app we post curated inspirational messages, wisdom and love. It's a way for you to experience another aspect of what we offer in Juno - A sacred community and a positive way to connect with other like-minded individuals ~ to celebrate life and its sacred teachings.     ~ Journey with me!  Subscribe to the podcast and enjoy each episode as they are released twice weekly + write a review and share the love (share this episode with someone you love! 💟👌) ~ Namaste 💗   Become a Patron of The WISDOM podcast here I would love if you did! ~ Namaste 💜     Live Session Info: I host free weekly 'live sessions.'  Please check them out and join me! Aura Mindfulness app Insight Timer Meditation app JUNO app     Visit my Website and The Wisdom Archives ~ meditations, sacred teachings, guidance and wisdom for your life ~    

  Bedtime Imagination ~ A Sleep Story The WISDOM podcast  Season 5  Episode 99 ~ ~ Use the power of active imagination to garner the senses of deep sleep.     Here as you prepare for slumber and as you enter a dream state of deep restorative sleep, remove any limitations.   Allow for creative exploration. Let this time each night be when you park the thoughts of the day ~ to open and witness the lasting effects of conscious imagination.   ~   Join us on a NEW 21 Day Journey The Alchemy of Abundance ~  Join the 21 Day Journey here This is a FREE experiential journey.😀💛💫 We offer this in the Juno app Download Juno here     ~ Namaste and love to you 💗   Watch the Video here ~   Sending you great 💜 love...     Book a Discovery Session here Let's work together!  Book a Therapy session here...     Work with Me + Transformational Coaching      JUNO 💜 Love-Heal-Transform Meditation ~ Mental Health ~ Spirituality ~ Self-Care *As a special 'podcast listener' use this link for $5 off your first month of JUNO Premium!    Promo Code:  WISDOMPODCAST   Each month inside The JUNO app we post curated inspirational messages, wisdom and love. It's a way for you to experience another aspect of what we offer in Juno - A sacred community and a positive way to connect with other like-minded individuals ~ to celebrate life and its sacred teachings.     ~ Journey with me!  Subscribe to the podcast and enjoy each episode as they are released twice weekly + write a review and share the love (share this episode with someone you love! 💟👌) ~ Namaste 💗   Become a Patron of The WISDOM podcast here I would love if you did! ~ Namaste 💜     Live Session Info: I host free weekly 'live sessions.'  Please check them out and join me! Aura Mindfulness app Insight Timer Meditation app JUNO app     Visit my Website and The Wisdom Archives ~ meditations, sacred teachings, guidance and wisdom for your life ~    

The Possibility of Rejection 'ask dorothy' The WISDOM podcast  Season 5  Episode 98 ~   My client described how being rejected by the person he was causally dating triggered him. Her rejection triggered feelings of anxiety, insecurity and distress at the thought of being alone ~ not having 'someone' to look to for love ~ and a sense of being needed and wanted and valuable. Many of us experience this dance of polarity. It is driven by our worse fears and the belief that we will not find someone to love us, and to provide a quick 'fix' for feeling unloved and undesired ~ even though this is furthest from the truth.   The possibility of rejection is in what you make of what happens next. Of how you stand your ground in the moments of what this means and for looking distinctly at the circumstances before you with the question: How is this 'rejection' ~ going to help me?   Ultimately what helped my client and what will help you ~ is to recognize when you feel triggered. To use self-regulation and cognitive re-framing - that is to tell yourself what is true rather than the old narratives that keep you hostage to that push-pull relationship, to being weak because you are relying on something external to yourself for how you want to feel - and for investing positive energy into yourself for this is how you feel remarkable.  If you would like my help as you navigate rejection and your sensitivity to it, please reach out to me.  Let me help.   ~   Join us on a NEW 21 Day Journey The Alchemy of Abundance ~  Join the 21 Day Journey here This is a FREE experiential journey.😀💛💫 We offer this in the Juno app Download Juno here     ~ Namaste and love to you 💗   Watch the Video here ~   Sending you great 💜 love...     Book a Discovery Session here Let's work together!  Book a Therapy session here...     Work with Me + Transformational Coaching      JUNO 💜 Love-Heal-Transform Meditation ~ Mental Health ~ Spirituality ~ Self-Care *As a special 'podcast listener' use this link for $5 off your first month of JUNO Premium!    Promo Code:  WISDOMPODCAST   Each month inside The JUNO app we post curated inspirational messages, wisdom and love. It's a way for you to experience another aspect of what we offer in Juno - A sacred community and a positive way to connect with other like-minded individuals ~ to celebrate life and its sacred teachings.     ~ Journey with me!  Subscribe to the podcast and enjoy each episode as they are released twice weekly + write a review and share the love (share this episode with someone you love! 💟👌) ~ Namaste 💗   Become a Patron of The WISDOM podcast here I would love if you did! ~ Namaste 💜     Live Session Info: I host free weekly 'live sessions.'  Please check them out and join me! Aura Mindfulness app Insight Timer Meditation app JUNO app     Visit my Website and The Wisdom Archives ~ meditations, sacred teachings, guidance and wisdom for your life ~