Inner peace or bust
Meditation: Headspace, Utter StillnessLength: 6 minutes Where: Bedroom, Michigan How It Felt: Refreshing Who Joined Me: Steve Six posts to go, including this one! My brain is already working on next year’s experiment: Pure Joy. I want to live a year saying “yes!” to the things that bring me joy and “no” to the things…
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Meditation: Calm, Calm LightLength: 3 minutesWhere: Bedroom, MichiganHow It Felt: My shoulders relaxed an inchWho Joined Me: Steve We survived Christmas! We were up at 7:30am, since we have one kid left who is still young enough to be too excited to sleep in. (We all collectively agreed to remember how sleepy we felt next…
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Meditation: Headspace, Transforming Anger #2Length: 11 minutes Where: Comfy chair, bedroom, MichiganHow It Felt: Soothing Took a “me” day today since Steve was busy with his last day of work, plus he kindly ran some errands for us and had a two hour meeting with his men’s group. I thought I should take advantage of…
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Meditation: Calm, Body ScanLength: 3 minutes Where: Bedroom, Michigan How It Felt: Short but Relaxing Quick post! We are on our way to Indiana for my family Christmas party, and I want to get back to our audiobook! Did a quick mediation with a great reminder at the end- see image below. Too excited about…
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Meditation: Calm, 7 Days of Managing Stress: Working with Strong Emotions Length: 14 minutes Where: Bedroom, Los Angeles How It Felt: Long but good Who Joined Me: Steve (until he fell asleep) Today I woke up motivated and ready to finish this year strong! I’m tired of whining about how hard it is to write…
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Meditation: Calm, Deep SleepLength: 6 minutes Where: In bed, Los AngelesHow It Felt: Calming I didn’t have much time to sleep last night, since my auto show turnaround was only 10 hours. Lots of flashbacks to last weekend! But with some huge differences, the biggest being having my wonderful husband here with me. Last night…
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Meditation: Headspace, Deep BreathingLength: 2 minutesWhere: Bedroom, Los AngelesHow It Felt: Nice Steve and I finally had a night and morning line up properly so we could spend part of the day together cuddled up in bed. I slept soooo great last night. And the eclipse finally happened, so I am feeling so much better…
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Meditation: Headspace, End of Day Length: 5 minutes Where: In Bed, Los Angeles How It Felt: Relaxing I slept hard last night. Finally. I had crazy dreams about flying with Steve Carell and soaring above the water in Canada with “the can lady” (no idea) and finding a diamond necklace in the road. I have…
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Meditation: Calm, Emergency Calm Length: 5 minutes Where: Bedroom, Los Angeles How It Felt: Like loosening a knot… a tiny bit Steve is here. Things are not easier but they seem easier with a partner, with my partner. He’s helping me so much, doing so much. But, honestly, just his presence is the best part.…
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Meditation: Balance, Foundations: Day 2Length: 5 minutesWhere: Bedroom, Los AngelesHow It Felt: Just… good. Still feeling quite heavy today. I did manage to work remotely for a show this morning. I also started and finished an entire book (Yearbook by Seth Rogen- soooo funny and insightful!) Steve and I had a phone date that lasted…
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My Year of Meditation 