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Heal Your Body: Create a “Feel Good” Resource List

Heal Your Body: Create a “Feel Good” Resource List

by Dr. Jennifer Franklin | May 20, 2020 | Healing, How to, Mindfulness

Right now, as we are in the midst of a difficult, unprecedented time in our lives, I’d like to offer you an opportunity to practice resourcing. If you’re already resourcing yourself, I’d like to offer you a chance to become more conscious and deliberate about it.  As...
Final Debriefing of the Check-In Exercise

Final Debriefing of the Check-In Exercise

by Dr. Jennifer Franklin | Jul 26, 2017 | Mindfulness, Healing

Let’s return to discussing the Check-In exercise. The Check-In is an exercise in self-care as much as anything else. To be successful with the Check-In exercise, you must be willing to pause and interrupt your normal routine. If doing so feels difficult to impossible,...
Continued Debriefing of the Check-In Exercise

Continued Debriefing of the Check-In Exercise

by Dr. Jennifer Franklin | Jul 18, 2017 | Healing, Mindfulness

Let’s return to discussing the Check-In exercise. The Check-In exercise quickly demonstrates your strengths and weaknesses across a set of skills. Those skills include slowing down, paying attention, tuning into various parts of yourself, non-judgmentally observing...
What to Make of the Check-In Exercise

What to Make of the Check-In Exercise

by Dr. Jennifer Franklin | Jun 21, 2017 | Healing, Mindfulness

In the last blog post I presented the Check-In. The Check-In exercise is an expedient way for you to facilitate self-awareness and mindfulness, which is critical to healing. Self-awareness and mindfulness together deepen our insight into the way your thoughts,...
The Check-In Exercise: My Favorite Practice for Practicing Mindfulness in Every Day Life (and Increasing Self-Awareness)

The Check-In Exercise: My Favorite Practice for Practicing Mindfulness in Every Day Life (and Increasing Self-Awareness)

by Dr. Jennifer Franklin | Jun 9, 2017 | Healing, Mindfulness

In the last blog post, I offered some general instructions for bringing mindfulness you’re your daily life and offered a number of simple ways to facilitate mindfulness in everyday life. In this blog post, I’m going to walk you through my favorite mindfulness...
How to Bring Mindfulness Into Your Every Day Life

How to Bring Mindfulness Into Your Every Day Life

by Dr. Jennifer Franklin | Jun 2, 2017 | Healing, Mindfulness

Whether or not you have a formal mindfulness meditation practice, I strongly recommend that you start to modify your behavior in gradual ways to facilitate some mindful moments in your everyday life. In general, it is a whole lot easier to make slight modifications to...
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