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• Includes some great links and a video of three stretches that you can do to open your hips.
  
  TIP: Do some exercises and pay attention to your emotional state in response to how open you are in your hips. Particularly during sex and you might find clues that support the concept that the more open and limber your hips are, the more open you are emotionally and intimately as well.

  

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  Could Your Hips Hold the Key to Your Emotions? Some Experts Say Yes

  Healthline

  Perhaps you’ve heard your yoga teacher refer to the hips as the body’s emotional junk drawer. While folded over in pigeon pose, you may have wondered …

• Have you ever said, "but I can't" or "that's not possible" or "there's no way". So often we are stuck in our own abused thinking and lack of possibilities that we don't even try to explore possibilities that might stretch us and ultimately help us heal! The result... we stay stuck in victimhood with no end in sight. But that is often a reality of our own making. We have choices; we just don't like them, or we are afraid, or we can't imagine how things could work out. Usually however, you can't see the solution if you don't take a step forward. This articles offers some tips on how to expand our minds and open our possibilities for the better.

  

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  3 common thinking traps and how to avoid them, according to a Yale psychologist

  NPR - Elise Hu

  The mind is a tricky thing. It can lead us to believe that we can confidently sing "Bohemian Rhapsody" at karaoke even though we haven't heard the song in years, or that one terrible review on Yelp is reason enough not to go to a 4-star rated restaurant. These thinking errors are what people in the …

• Excellent tips for letting go of insomnia and moving back toward better health, mentally and physically!

  

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  Want to get a good night’s sleep? First of all, stop trying

  The Guardian - Camilla Stoddart

  Seven expert and unexpected tips for people who have already tried everything As a sleep coach, I regularly meet people who have “tried everything” to get more sleep. They have read every article on the subject and devoured every tip on the internet and then adjusted and readjusted their routines …

• Abuse survivors can often be overly apologetic, which is counter productive to our recovery. 1) we don’t need to apologize, especially for situations or outcomes we didn’t actually create, and 2) it’s not appropriate or helpful to be sorry for drawing healthy boundaries.
  
  This article shares 2 simple phrases that can diffuse conflict, deepen understanding, and make it easier to set boundaries.
  

  

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  How People With High Emotional Intelligence Use ‘the Mayday Rule’ to Become Exceptionally Persuasive

  Inc Magazine - Bill Murphy Jr.

  There's the hard way and the easy way. I prefer the easy way. When readers ask about emotional intelligence, I like to think of a British radio officer in the 1920s. His name was Frederick Stanley Mockford and he worked at Croydon Airport -- the first international airport in the United Kingdom. In …

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  Patterns of Abuse with Kimberly McFerron - Help for Child Sexual Abuse Survivors

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  Show Podcast Information Patterns and cycles of abuse can affect us our entire lives, especially when we witness and experience it as children. In …

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  Sep 27, 2022