Blog Posts

What’s the difference between value and reciprocity? The heart expands when energy flows both ways. I love working with my clients, but my heart wants to serve more. So I’m widening my view. [...]

What gives you joy during the day? Better yet, what would you do with free time and life energy? Because believe it or not, that can lead you to rest. My client Chad hated going to bedtime. He’d [...]

I respect the urge to take sleep medications. Still, most people who take them would rather not – perhaps because of their short- and long-term problems, or simply for feeling dependent on them. [...]

Weighted blankets are all the thing. I heard of them long ago for children with autism or Sensory Processing Disorder (over- or under-responding to sensory experiences, which affects sleep, [...]

I heard the news last Saturday as I arrived to teach the workshop on Finding Rest in Turbulent Times. This time, news was the synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh. The day before, execution of two [...]

It’s kinda hellish when you don’t know what causes your insomnia. Is it coffee or chocolate, lack of exercise, too much screen time late at night? Or maybe an underlying illness, thyroid or [...]

I’m teaching a workshop for those who are reeling from political affronts We are managing hard times, with grief, shock, anger, fear, and too often, sleeplessness. Which makes our feelings [...]

Do you remember these lines from the children’s book, Madeline? In an old house in Paris All covered with vines Lived twelve little girls In two straight lines And a few pages later: In the [...]

Rest seems simple, doesn’t it? I mean, you just stop and let go. But it’s not always easy. That’s because obstacles rear their ugly heads, leaving you frustrated with a non-stop mind, tense body, [...]

As we work together, my client Charles notices how his desperation for sleep keeps him agitated and awake. His firmly ingrained “I need to sleep” belief means that: If he doesn’t [...]