by gemma | Jun 29, 2012 | beloved & praised, health & happiness, meaningful & life lessons, thoughts & musings, tools & strategies, videos & ask gemm
Last week, I chatted about the six strategies I use daily to help me from slipping into the darkness of mental health struggles. I actually use twelve strategies daily (I try, anyway). Here are the other six :: Media. I am super strict with the type of media I expose...
by gemma | Jun 21, 2012 | inspiration & wisdom, mind & brain, spiritual & out there, thoughts & musings, tools & strategies, videos & ask gemm
Family Constellations allow us to break messy & sticky patterns of suffering so that we can live healthier, happier, and more fulfilled lives. Bert Hellinger (a crazy smart & deeply intuitive fella) is the founder of this work. He studied and treated families...
by gemma | Jun 21, 2012 | health & happiness, meaningful & life lessons, thoughts & musings, tools & strategies, videos & ask gemm
If you’ve read my story, then you know I have had a history of mental health struggles. Here’s what I do to keep myself healthy so that I can avoid the trap of slipping back into the darkness: Presence. Over and over again I remind myself that Now is not Then. And the...
by gemma | Jun 2, 2012 | beloved & praised, mind & brain, self sabotage & stuckness, thoughts & musings, tools & strategies, videos & ask gemm
Your brain is continually looking for bad news and for scary situations. As soon as it finds the scariest news, it fixates on it and shoots that information into memory storage. Later, it reactivates that information as soon as a similar situation or signal arises....
by gemma | Apr 30, 2012 | mind & brain, self sabotage & stuckness, thoughts & musings, tools & strategies, videos & ask gemm
Subconscious habits can be extraordinarily annoying. And extraordinarily helpful. Acting without thinking can be frustrating (hey, where did that piece of cake go!?) Acting without thinking can also be ultra effective. Thank goodness we don’t have to consciously...
by gemma | Apr 17, 2012 | love & fear, mind & brain, tools & strategies, videos & ask gemm
Fear can be a good thing. In the early years of humanity, it protected our ancestors from saber-tooth tigers. It encouraged them to run, fight, or hide in order to save their lives. Fear is a natural and helpful feeling. It’s also one of the strongest emotions that we...
