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Self-Care

Coach Thorsted

Self-care is preventative treatment.

The secret is simple, simple is the secret.

Meditation is simply awareness.

True love is caring about someone else more than yourself, in a healthy way. Self-love is caring about yourself enough to have enough love to give away.

Proactively practice self-care.

Breathe consciously.

There are more than enough resources out there on the benefits of conscious breathing. So, I won’t go into that here. What I do want to share are two of my go-to conscious breathing techniques that have worked well for me. Lunar Cycle Breathing I imagine (or literally look at) the moon as I perform …

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Have a healthy relationship with your food.

Life is all about relationships. Not just relationships with people, but relationships with things. This morning, I chose to get into a very bad relationship. I chose to eat a greasy breakfast at one of those greasy spoon restaurants. The food tasted great as I was eating it, but I began feeling awful before the …

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Choose to be centered.

When I was 15 years old, my dad taught me how to get centered. He explained what centering was and showed me some basic centering exercises. Then, he gave me a book on centering to “borrow” (my dad rarely gives you things to keep, he gives you lots of things to borrow, even when you …

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Check-in Checklist

Below is my “Check-in Checklist”. I routinely check in with myself by consciously going through this list in my mind. I do this whenever I am walking alone in nature, when I am waiting for someone or something, or as I am lying in bed at night. Mindfully moving through my list is one of …

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  • Awareness
  • Basketball
  • Being Present
  • Centering
  • Culture
  • Death
  • Haikus
  • History
  • Humor
  • Identity
  • Learning
  • Life
  • Love
  • Moon Musings
  • Nature
  • Parenting
  • Purpose
  • Self-Care
  • Spirituality
  • Stories
  • Travel
  • Walking
  • Winning
  • Work