Repose Journal
EXPLORE TOPICS
Understanding & Practicing Body Neutrality
Our bodies are complex and beautiful, but cultural and societal messages have complicated our perception of them. If you’re reading this, you may hold a strong desire to move through life with more ease and with less focus on your appearance as a measure of your worth and value. You may struggle with self-love for your body. Body neutrality addresses the question, “If I can’t always love my body, how can I choose to nourish and respect it?” Interested to learn more? Read on!
Dealing with the Winter Blues? Keep Reading
Winter can be a tough time of year for many people, especially for those who suffer from seasonal depression. As a therapist, I have worked with many individuals who struggle with the winter blues, and I have found that there are several strategies that can be helpful in managing this condition. Keep reading to learn more!
Why Meditation is Difficult When You Are Depressed, and What to Try Instead
Why is meditation so hard to focus on when you are feeling numbed out or falling into a depressive spiral? Read on for answer to this burning question!
How to Deal with Emotional Overwhelm and Work Burnout
Burnout is a feeling of emotional, physical and psychological exhaustion which can manifest as apathy about work, lack of motivation, diminished performance, exhaustion, and physical symptoms. Burnout is caused by prolonged and excessive stress brought on by working prolonged hours or under stressful conditions like strict bosses. Click here to read on.
Somatic Experiencing: The Body Remembers
Somatic Experiencing is informed by science that indicates that all human beings have a capacity to triumph over trauma. Practitioners of this therapeutic method believe that trauma is curable, and the healing process can often serve as a catalyst for deep emotional awakening, and spiritual transformation. Somatic Experiencing equips folks with the self-sustaining tools to regulate their emotions with integrity and balance.
- Prerna Menon, LMSW, CTP
Womxn Using Therapy to Improve Relationship to Body & Hormonal Health
Working therapeutically whether through yoga, art therapy or psychotherapy to address the Menstrual Cycle, PMS, PMDD, PCOS, Fibroids, Breast Pain and Endometriosis or other concerns, is a chance to encourage healing and compassion towards our body and reproductive system that is inherently emotional.
Restorative vs Yin from a Therapeutic Lens
Yin Yoga Practice vs a Restorative Yoga Practice — we love them both and they each have their rightful place in whole-istic healing…