Touch Your Fears
Razi Berry My practice of embodiment Part of my practice of embodiment is to bring more touch into my daily experience. I used to live so much in my head, which is where anxiety and worry live. Fear is different from anxiety in that fear protects you when processed in healthy ways. Anxiety is fear […]
Love Is The Drug
Razi Berry I’d been in relationships continuously since I fell hard for my first love at age 14. Four beautiful years of tenderness, and angst. Coming of age. Then, a series of long-term missing the mark, hanging on too long, and giving up too soon relationships. When I faced divorce, I first thought… When I […]
The Secret Life Of Negative Emotions
Razi Berry Is your heart heavy? Like this heart of stone. Do you feel weighed down by holding such betrayal or unrequited love? Or is it frozen solid in fear? That one tug of your heartstrings will unravel everything you keep sacred. That if you get too close to love’s light you might melt through […]
Relationship Conflict Causes Disease?
Razi Berry It felt like someone had taken hold of my heart and was trying to wring it like a wet rag I hadn’t felt this discomfort since years earlier as a young teenager when I suffered heart problems from an eating disorder and nearly died. I’d somehow trudge through the workday by applying pressure […]
How we are Loved Early on Impacts us for a Lifetime
Razi Berry Time Well Spent is Time Spent in the Present, Offering True Connection Some of my earliest and most profound memories of my father are of him simply looking at me. He worked a lot when I was young, and his one day off was in the middle of the week, so when I […]
Self-acceptance could be the key to a happier life! Yet, it’s the happy habit practiced least
Razi Berry Someone really needs to hear this message I was 13 years old, and I was holding in my hand my first copy of Seventeen Magazine. It was different back then, not so much about dating and celebrities as it is now. Mostly it had cute clothes, pretty girls, advice on friendship, decorating your […]
Harvesting Health and Wellbeing From Your Relationship
Dr. Katie Hendricks, PhD Dr. Gay Hendricks, PhD When you declared “in sickness or in health” when you committed in your own style or ceremony, you probably weren’t thinking very much about actuarial tables. You may have discounted how much your relationship dynamics actually can increase your health or make you sick. In fact, your […]
Mirror, Mirror…
Dr. Katie Hendricks, PhD Dr. Gay Hendricks, PhD Humans have a terrible time sorting out me from them. This was best expressed by Yasutani Roshi: “The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.” Since we show up in different bodies, most people assume that each of […]
More Early Social Interaction Equals Better Health
(NaturalPath) In a study out of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, researchers found that the more social ties people have at an early age the better their health is at the beginning and end of their life. The study is the first to definitively link social relationships with concrete measures of physical well-being […]
How’s Your Swoon Quotient?
Dr. Katie Hendricks, Phd What is ‘swoon quotient’? *Swoon quotient: the felt experience of gratitude, intimacy, appreciation and sexual feelings all swirling together, or, the tendency to almost fall over in bliss being around your mate. Recently I came back from errands and met Gay in the kitchen. When we hugged and kissed hello I […]