Photo: Niko Photos In nature, nothing is perfect, and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted and bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful. Alice Walker Why exposure to nature is important. As a psychotherapist and avid hiker, I have seen the immense benefits of exposure to nature on
Photo by Margarita. Spring is a fabulous time of the year... ... for noticing the changes and enduring transformations in nature, paying attention to how everything is constantly changing and rebirthing. Satisfaction comes not from chasing bigger and bigger things but from paying attention to smaller and
Audio Recording (8:58) dropping anchor, adapted by Margarita. 'Dropping Anchor'** is a very useful skill. You can use it for handling difficult thoughts, feelings, emotions, memories, urges and sensations more effectively. A: Acknowledge your thoughts and feelings C: Come back into your body E: Engage in what
Mindful Walk. Photo, Margarita. "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes but in having new eyes." Marcel Proust What are the origins of Mindfulness? Mindfulness has its roots in Buddhist meditation. The concept of mindfulness takes us back to the Pali words sati,
Finding balance. Photo: Margarita Rabinovich, 2021 “Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to master it, we will have to learn to live with it—just as we have learned to live with storms.” Paulo Coelho, Brazilian lyricist
Photo: Margarita, 2019 “Wings are for landing.” “The only choice we have as we mature is how we inhabit our vulnerability, how we become larger and more courageous and more compassionate through our intimacy with disappearance, our choice is to inhabit vulnerability as generous citizens of loss, robustly and fully,