Balance

When someone asks me what I do for a living now, I get to give the best response ever, the one I always dreamed of: I get to tell people that I get paid to have fun, to follow my bliss, that my job is to play. Finding and feeling joy is what Living Lumin […]

Question: “Can you tell me more about anxiety and panic, particularly how to disrupt anxiety symptoms as they are intensifying?” Dear Reader,  Anxiety can be experienced in a variety of unique ways, and each person may have a different way in which they “see” their anxiety symptoms present. This will not be a catch-all of

Question: My 14-year-old daughter always wants to wear long sleeve shirts and cover her wrists. The other day, I saw scars on her wrists and inner thighs. She talks about how other girls in school cut themselves when they are upset, and I think she is cutting too but doesn’t want us to find out.

This information is kindly brought to you by an interview with Kathy Jensen, Clinical Herbalist and Licensed Massage Therapist at Mind & Body Connection in Sioux City.  In the rolling hills and plains of the Midwest, we have both the profound benefit and challenge of experiencing each one of the earthly seasons (sometimes, all in

The best things in life usually happen outside. For me, like many, nature is one of the greatest inspirations and guides—in yoga and life. Ask, and you shall receive, seek, and you shall find. Like Thoreau, I go to the outdoors to live deliberately, find peace, experience joy, and rekindle wonder. To feel what it’s

When it comes to death and grief, I’ve experienced my fair share of both. I’m sure I’m not the only person that’s heard of the phrase “check on your strong friend”. Even though I heard of it after losing a very important person in my life, it’s a phrase that will always stick with me.