Rachel Windley changed her relationship with her body after she suffered a debilitating spinal injury caused by overtraining. She realised that healthy and thin were not synonymous and pushing her body to extremes had put her ability to walk and run normally for the rest...
Social media might have you thinking that the only way to practice self-care is to take a candlelit bubble bath, go on a week-long yoga retreat, or participate in some other Instagram-worthy activity. While a nice bath or getaway certainly are acts of self-care, in reality, self-care extends far...
May 23rd in Toronto and though the temperature has warmed up enough that I don’t need my winter coat, the gloomy skies of the past few months continue to lurk overhead. I feel myself teetering on the edge of darkness, it’s waiting with open arms to suck me in. My unmade bed...
When we talk about self-care, we often think about the smaller and commercial side of things such as bubble baths and face masks. And while these have a place in spiritual self-care and provide their series of benefits, these sort of activities only begin to scratch the surface of what it truly...
Selfishness and selflessness are two sides of the same coin. As the ancient Taoist religion of China teaches us, there is no such thing as something completely good or something completely bad. There cannot be darkness without light, as there cannot be hot without cold. The same thing holds...
Back in my college years I remember a professor asking the class: “Who here is healthy? Raise your hand.” It was a great question, and although many students raised their hand, most did so with hesitation: “I think I’m healthy?” was the overwhelming sentiment of the...
