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Focusing on our breathing has a calming effect on our body. It helps us learn to accept our feelings without reacting to them or allowing them to control us.

Here is a simple way to understand the way the mind works when it’s imbalanced.  

Just as we learned how to relate to or deny our emotions as kids, we can learn a healthier way of accepting and relating to them now.

Shame Shame is a toxic emotion. It’s an attack on the self: “I am….. bad, worthless, a failure, unlovable, etc” Shame is self-loathing, discounting one’s own achievements, feeling less-than, incapable, unworthy of being loved or loving, helpless, hopeless, etc. Shame fuels rage reactions to perceived slights or threats of rejection or abandonment with: Physically or verbally lashing out against others Lashing out at one’s self (suicidal thoughts/actions, eating disorders, sel

Expect Stress. Stress is inevitable. Being chronically stressed is optional. We have the power within us to heal. When we experience chronic stress from an early age, our body learns to breathe too shallowly and rapidly. The oxygen and carbon dioxide levels in our body become unbalanced. Our body gets stuck in reactivity and can’t calm down. Our Sympathetic Nervous System (SNS) maintains a chronic heightened level of fight-or- flight, believing that it is under continuous thr

Kenya is a nation deeply affected by trauma, as demonstrated by the intergenerational impact of traumatic experiences on its population....

I first came across the word "depression" during my sophomore psychology class, but by then, I was already deep in the struggle. It took...