by Heidi Light | Apr 6, 2019 | Cognition, Human Development, Mindfulness & Awareness, Psychology & Personal Development
I see so many people struggling as they internalize the pain of the world, taking it into their own bodies and minds. We don’t have to do that. The pain doesn’t have to break us. We can sit with it, within it. We can feel the pain but not become it. Have...
by Heidi Light | Mar 20, 2019 | Cognition, Human Development, Mindfulness & Awareness, Psychology & Personal Development
“Every behaviour has a psychological reward. If it didn’t have a reward, we wouldn’t do it. The key is to replace our unhealthy reward systems with healthy ones.” The rewards can be positive or negative. Both positive and negative behaviours can give us a...
by Heidi Light | Mar 10, 2019 | Cognition, Human Development, Mindfulness & Awareness, Psychology & Personal Development
Please stop labelling normal life stuff – and poor coping skills – as a “disorder”. There is a vast difference between clinical disorders and normal mental and emotional responses to life events. So many words are being tossed around online...
by Heidi Light | Feb 15, 2019 | Cognition, Human Development, Mindfulness & Awareness, Psychology & Personal Development
This blog article is the last in a series of 4 articles about mental & emotional self-care that I’m posting, to coincide with a series of workshops that I’m offering. Our thoughts and emotions need active management – they don’t manage themselves. In...
by Heidi Light | Jan 31, 2019 | Cognition, Human Development, Mindfulness & Awareness, Psychology & Personal Development
We can learn to manage our thoughts in effective and healthy ways, which includes observing them, honoring them, altering them, or completely re-vamping them where necessary. We will never rid ourselves of our thoughts – the only way to do that is to auger out...
by Heidi Light | Jan 16, 2019 | Cognition, Human Development, Mindfulness & Awareness, Psychology & Personal Development
We feel to live just as much as we eat to live, yet can you imagine never learning anything at all about food, denying the existence of food, withholding food, resenting food, fighting or repressing food, thinking food is bad or unnecessary or only for girls? This...
