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The Definitive Guide To Grounding Through Your Hands This Winter
A few weeks ago, I gave you 6 solutions to grounding through your feet even in the middle of winter. You can review those here if you want some great ways to stay grounding through your feet even when it gets super cold outside and you want to wear your winter boots! But truth be told, I love love love grounding through my hands, and most days I get grounded outside through my hands more often than through my feet. There are lots of reasons for this: My hands stay cleaner, as surfaces higher off the ground tend to ...
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Holiday Party Foods That Support Your Health, Instead Of Sabotaging It
This week is Halloween, which for me means I’ll be sneaking in a ton of extra candy I really don’t need. Then there is Thanksgiving. That usually means food. Then there are holiday parties all winter long through New Years, which also means folks are stressing about their weight all winter long too. Most people report that being surrounded by rich holiday foods, alcohol, impulse eating, and weight gain during the holiday season adds a significant amount of stress to wintertime. So as the holiday season gets underway, I wanted to give you a few tips on how to ...
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Sunlight + Warmth + Grounding All Fall And Winter Long: Here’s How
When it starts turning cold outside, I am reminded to share with you my favorite way to ensure I can keep up with all of my healing progress that I got during the active, warm, sun loving spring and summer months going all fall and winter long. By setting up a healing sanctuary, you can put into place health routines that ensure you don’t lose a single bit of the healing progress you’ve made so far this year, and no matter how cold it gets and how long and dark the nights become, you’ll be powerfully catapulted forward on ...
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The Definitive Guide To Grounding Through Your Feet In The Cold
Most grounding advocates tell you — rather incessantly — to go outside and walk barefoot for your health. That’s lovely when the weather is good, you have a safe pesticide-free green space to walk in, and you have time to remove shoes & put them back on. But what to do, in winter, if you do truly love to ground through your feet but it get’s too cold? I totally get why you would want to keep grounding through your feet, even in winter, even as it gets colder — after all, using the natural moisture of the soles ...
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Reverse Sun Damage From The Summer & Protect Skin From Winter’s Cold
Here’s a question for you: is it better to keep a cut covered and wet or let it air dry as it heals? This recently came up with a dear friend of mine, who was letting a cut “air out” by giving it time to dry between bandage changes. Even though letting a cut dry out or air out at night is a very common practice, the research shows that airing a cut out actually leads to a slower healing rate, more inflammation, and more scarring — which surprised her. So I knew it was time for my annual ...
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My Latest Grounding Publication: Grounding To Facilitate Trauma Recovery
Today I wanted to share with you my latest published research article, on using grounding to help recover from trauma. If you’ve followed my blog for any length of time, you know that I talk about trauma recover a lot, because I personally (along with both of my children) had a profound trauma about 15 years ago from which we are all still healing. Because of my direct experience with using grounding to help facilitate our own recovery, I was able to notice first hand how grounding helped reduce anxiety, helped reduce muscle tension from persistent muscle bracing from ...
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The 15 Best Ways To Get Grounded Outside During Fall
Today is the Fall Equinox, so I’m share with you my 15 favorite ways to get grounded outside in the fresh autumn air. Pick one to do today as a way to celebrate the fall equinox, and let’s see how many of the other one’s you can get done in the next 3 months! Don’t let this beautiful wonderful refreshing and healing season pass you by without enjoying its splendor outdoors, as much as possible. Let’s all go outside and get grounded today… share this with your friends and bookmark this page too, so you can come back and ...
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Your Fall Health Checklist: Which Of These Do You Still Need To Do?
Fall officially starts this month, and for so many of us, the shorter days and longer nights means a dip in our mood. Regardless if we keep daylight saving time or not, remember — humans do not regulate the sun or way the planets move or the hours of the day — the days will continue to shorten the exact same way they always have, and winter will continue to encourage a time of hibernation. Which is great! We want to stay in rhythm with the seasonal changes of our planet, as each season allows for a different form ...
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My Latest Painting (& Why It Might Get You Through A Hard Time)
Whenever one of my children is going through a time of stress and overwhelm, I remind them how to get through it… think of a really big wave. The kind that rises up in front of you and, for just a moment, makes you wonder if you can handle what is coming. I knew my children would remember how that feels, playing in the ocean and all of a sudden a much bigger wave is coming towards you… you get an immediate pit in your stomach and only a few seconds to figure out what to do as it ...
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Grounding Heals Trauma. Not Just Helps You Cope… Actually Heals It. Here’s How.
When we go through something overwhelming, unwanted and out of our control — whether emotional, physical, or psychological — the nervous system immediately shifts into survival mode. This is automatic. It is your body protecting you. Muscles tighten. Breathing becomes shallow and rapid. Heart rate increases. Digestion slows down. Sleep becomes difficult. The brain may even begin to dissociate or remain hypervigilant long after the traumatic event has passed. And the part that hurts your health long term is that trauma decreases your neuroplasticity. The brain is literally changed from trauma, and the way it works is more ...
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