Warmest Wishes of the Holiday Season to you and yours! As wonderful and joy-filled as this time of year is, for many of us it is also be rife with stress and anxiety that can cause body and food insecurities to flare up, challenging the work we have been doing to develop a more peaceful and positive relationship with our…
Since reading The Mindful Path to Self Compassion by Christopher Gerner, I have felt a shift in my ability to offer myself compassion when I am in pain. My relationship with myself has shifted, and I feel an easier access to the well of compassion within me, and more at ease in offering it to myself. Gerner’s book provides a…
For me eating is an activity that ideally is a relaxed and pleasurable experience. As I’ve progressed on my own body sovereignty journey, I’ve worked at ditching the diet mentality and moving to a more intuitive and peaceful approach to food. My work has been to rely less on outside experts to tell me what, when and how to eat…
I was blessed to spend time last week in community with women, coming together and bonding both at festival and retreat space. As trust was built over our time together, our conversations became more personal, and the sharing became more raw. Amongst the laughter and the tears, I was particularly struck by what emerged in our conversation around how we…
Embracing the Body Divine is pleased to offer Reiki healing treatments at the Hive and Grove in Kitchener on Wednesdays, on a pay what you wish basis. Sydney is a Level II Reiki Practitioner in the Usui System, a Japanese technique for stress reduction and relaxation that also promotes healing. For appointments call: 519-501-8953 or email: sydney_bell@me.com
The year moves forward and those of us in the northern hemisphere find ourselves finally leaving the cold and snow behind us for the Spring’s embrace of warmth and growth. I invite you to consider with me how the energy of this season, the returning warmth of the sun, the leaves sprouting on the tress and the newly returned birds…
Hello and Happy New Year! I hope you’ve all had a wonderful body-sovereign holiday season and are ready to embark on to the adventures of what 2016 brings us. Let’s start the year here at Embracing the Body Divine with some reflection on nurturing mindfulness to help us become more body sovereign. Those of us on journey’s of improving our…