Sometimes it all seems like too much. Whether this happens to you once in a while or almost every day at some point, it can be very helpful to have some ways to calm yourself down. Here are some suggestions… 1. Take 10 slow, deep breaths. Allow those breaths to reach all the way down… [Continue Reading]
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Relax (pretty much ANYWHERE)
“How would you like to feel when you leave here today?” Over the years I’ve heard my question answered in many ways but there is one intention that is, by far, the one that clients say the most: Relaxed What a worthy intention! When we are relaxed, hard things somehow become softer, easier. Tight places… [Continue Reading]
Help for your broken heart
A friend recently wrote me of her broken heart. She is crying every day –heart crushing sobs– and tells me that her tears have absolutely no regard for time of day or place where she might be. Earlier this summer she started trying to date other people but then stopped. She feels terrified of ever… [Continue Reading]
Finding the Sweet Spot (between binging and deprivation)
If you follow Heidi’s Table on Facebook, then you will recognize some of what follows from a recent post there. Topics of food and eating are —for better or for worse— very near and dear to me. Today I’d love to bring some fresh air to a topic which can sometimes be fraught. I’ve come a long… [Continue Reading]
I Spy, I Spy (with my little massage therapist’s eye)
My clients amaze me. They learn to drive in their 30’s. They date again after years of being alone. They join a chorus. They learn a new dance and perform it! They quit jobs. They have babies. They have babies in their 40’s. Sometimes the baby thing doesn’t work out after a long time of… [Continue Reading]
Same place, new look. Heidi’s Table 2015.
Happy New Year, my people! On January 1 I took over the lease for my office. Even though this did not come as a surprise, a few days before the actual date when my dear office mate of the last year would be moving out, I found myself feeling quite anxious. After waking up really… [Continue Reading]
How discomfort can help you (feel connected to your body)
Keeping the Peace asks: “After a massage I feel very connected with my body. Is there anything I can do in between massages to maintain that connection?” Dear Keeping the Peace, I love that there are people like you in the world, people who want to feel connected to their bodies. Connection is about relationship,… [Continue Reading]
Heidi’s Table is wearing a brand spanking new logo!
Once upon a few months or so ago, Heidi contacted a designer she’d long admired about making a logo and a new web-design for Heidi’s Table. Secretly, she feared that a logo that captured the essence of it all was not possible, but if anyone could do it, she had a feeling it would be… [Continue Reading]