Raising the Barre

I can walk into a Barre3 studio feeling completely overwhelmed with the heaviness of the world. After an intense sweat session, I leave feeling renewed and balanced again. It has given me the ability to find my own strength from within and be more in tune with my body and what it needs.

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When Anger Doesn't Last, Turn to Love

Let’s be honest…there are a lot of things to be angry about in the world. There are atrocities, disparities, inequalities, and injustices, that when thought about together, can leave a person feeling an overwhelming sense of anger.

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The Way We Do The Things We Do

It might seem too obvious to suggest, let alone write a whole blog about it, but the victim of systems of trauma, such as human trafficking, will find no healing in yet another system of trauma. What that re-traumatizing system looks like might not be so obvious.

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Mass Shootings On My Mind: How Healing Trauma Heals Us All

Fewer and fewer people in our society can take comfort that trauma is someone else’s problem. A study reported in the August 4, 2019 Los Angeles Times makes it clear that another person’s trauma should be very much our concern. In fact, as demonstrated in recent mass shootings, it could become a matter of life and death.

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