Take Your Exercise!
As professional women, we tend to be in our heads a lot - analyzing, judging, sorting, drafting, calculating. Lots of left side of the brain stuff. It is quite easy to begin to neglect our bodies when we are so in our heads. However, in doing so, we are really cheating ourselves.
Is Your Body A Ball and Chain or a Place of Refuge? (Epiphany in the Gatineau Hills)
For part of last summer, like every summer of my life, I spent some time up at our family cottage on Blue Sea Lake, in Quebec's Gatineau Hills, north of Ottawa. Our extended family has been going to this place for seven generations. There are many many things I love about the place and the people there. When I am there, I make a point of getting out on the old railroad track, which has been converted into a fitness trail. I love to run and walk on it. So, on one of these occasions last summer, I was out on the trail with my dog, and I had an epiphany.
How Well Do You Know Your Big Toe?
How well do you know your big toe? This summer I want to get to know my big right toe a lot better. I know this sounds odd, so I will explain.
It’s Not Our WHOLE Brain That Drives Us Crazy!
Lately I have developed an interest in how our brains work. I am no expert and never will be, but I am an avid student. My interest started with a lecture by David Rock that I attended a couple of years ago.
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