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10-Day Burnout & Exhaustion Challenge: Day 8

At the very beginning of today’s session, Eileen Rose Miles explains that our nervous systems can’t really differentiate between what’s real and what’s imagined. Our bodies react in much the same way to a physical threat as to a mentally created one. It’s the ‘fight-or-flight’ phenomenon that hasn’t changed since the caveman days. We mayContinue reading “10-Day Burnout & Exhaustion Challenge: Day 8”

10-Day Burnout & Exhaustion Challenge: Day 1

Red octagonal stop sign at a suburban road intersection with cars and trees

Here we are: Day 1 of another Insight Timer challenge. I hadn’t planned on posting daily through this one, but today’s meditation changed my mind. The Voice in the introduction said, “So many of us are always available, never switching off, and never saying no” and we don’t just stop. Our bodies don’t remember whatContinue reading “10-Day Burnout & Exhaustion Challenge: Day 1”

Nervous System Reset: Day 10

“Dual Regulation Five-Finger Breathing Practice” When I first heard the title of today’s lesson I thought, What in the world is this? Can’t we just breathe or something? I’m not in the mood for, like, finger puppets . . . Oh holy cow. I was not expecting this. Our teacher, Dr. Jud Brewer, has aContinue reading “Nervous System Reset: Day 10”