For most of my life I toggled between wanting to be a "good girl" and wanting to tell people (and systems) to leave me the f*ck alone. It was a hard line to walk with one part of me wanting to be liked and held in "high-standing" and the other feeling put upon, judged and resenting it.

Self Care, Practices & RitualsJamie GreenwoodFebruary 23, 2022self trust, self care, self help, clarity

We move at the speed of trust.

Question for you: What were you taught about slowness? Perhaps you were taught that slowness is a form of laziness. Perhaps you internalized the message that going slow is a waste of precious time. Maybe you see slowness as the antithesis of productivity or worse, that slowness is a reflection of low intelligence.

Self Care, Practices & RitualsJamie GreenwoodFebruary 8, 2022self trust, self care, self help, clarity

One Small Promise

Question for you: What's one small promise you can make yourself this year?

Practices & RitualsJamie GreenwoodJanuary 25, 2021dance, creativity, freedom

What Are You Bringing?

Not a day goes by when we don’t experience some sort of a challenge. Which makes sense as challenge is part of being a human on this planet. No one “rides for free” and thank goodness for life’s challenges that make us stretch and grow.

Questions for When You’re a Mom Who’s Lost

There are times as a mother when I literally forget who I am. Times when I get so sucked into the laundry list of life that I struggle to locate ME. When that happens I plop myself down and write. I ask and answer big questions and in the writing, I’m always brought back home to myself.

A Simple and Powerful Ritual for Reconnection

Pause is imperative to creating the life we want. In fact, it is the foundation on which our dreams and actions are built as it’s only when we quiet that we can hear the wisdom within, the wisdom needed to powerfully guide us into the coming year. Here is a simple ritual that will help you both honor the year you’ve had and consciously connect to how you want to experience the year to come.

How to Take Care of Yourself in the Middle of Chaos

Often when we’re in chaos, whether in our personal lives or triggered by the state of the world, we lose contact with our center, that sacred place within us that houses our resilience, peace and joy.

Practices & Rituals, Self CareJamie GreenwoodSeptember 4, 2017getting centered, grounding, mindfulness, calm, chaos, take care of yourselfComment

Self Care Versus Soul Care

In this culture, we aren’t taught how to care for ourselves and so we’re left with the beauty-maintenance type of care that, though nice, only keeps us fed for a brief moment. That disconnect sent me looking more closely at care, to find something beyond self care that could access a purer level of nourishment that a pedicure ever could.

What To Do When Someone Acts Shitty

Dear goodness! We all handle shittiness differently and depending on the circumstance, I can either quickly let it go or stew over it for a week. Over time I’ve honed a few key steps to help me (and my clients) deal with shittiness.

Self Care, Practices & RitualsJamie GreenwoodApril 16, 2017recovery, grief, stress, chaos, handing conflictComment

The Game-Changing Question You Never Ask and Need To

We don’t share our likes thinking they make us seem persnickety, difficult, demanding. We fall back on people please, deciding their likes trump ours and we’ll like whatever they like because they seem to care more.

On the threshold of all we're meant to be

I want to be engaged and spurred on by what inspires, challenges and frightens me rather than hiding out in the covert ways that I do. I want to be present and awake for the reality that currently is — and for the one I’m courageously crafting.

[A meditation] Thank you, Body.

On the morning of the third day I woke up early to snag a quick hike with the hope that moving my body might help shake off the fear. Cruising up the hill I took in the sunrise and the hawk gliding above and tried hard to embrace the serenity around me. I made each step a walking meditation, feeling my heel, then the ball of my foot, then my toes touch the earth.

Self Care, Practices & RitualsJamie GreenwoodDecember 5, 2016body love, thank you, gratitude, self compassion, meditation, mindfulnessComment

[Podcast] Emotional Resilience with Ali Shapiro

Here is my interview on the Insatiable podcast with hosts Ali Shapiro and Juliet Burgh. Together we talk about emotional resilience, feeling our feelings and how to use my 3 P’s (Presence, Peace and Power) to reconnect to yourself and cultivate an engaged, fulfilling life.

Mindfulness/Spirituality, Practices & Rituals, Self CareJamie GreenwoodNovember 28, 2016pocast, interview, ali shapiro, juliet burgh, presence, peace, powerComment

The well of goodwill

Since that conversation 2 years ago, I’ve thought a lot about the goodwill well of my relationship and how to keep it happy and flowing. General kindness and staying out of resentment are both important and here are a few other actions that Adam, me and my clients use to keep our goodwill wells at healthy levels.

The Fire Inside

Feel what you’ve work hard to know and what you’ve always known, without effort. Dedicate yourself to that knowing. Fully commit to that special gift, that fire within. Be all in for if you’re not, what else is this life for?

Mindfulness/Spirituality, Practices & RitualsJamie GreenwoodOctober 2, 2016fire, your fire, love yourself, the fire within, don't hideComment

If you’re in the middle of a transition, read this.

I’ve noticed over the last few months that all of my clients are going through some sort of transition. Whether they’re making a career move, speaking their truth more in relationships, are becoming empty-nesters or are transitioning away from perfectionism towards joy and self-compassion, everyone’s moving out of one thing towards another that’s altogether new.

Real but not true

The conversation looks something like this: Life is going way too fast, there’s too much to do, we’re worried we don’t have enough time to get everything done and what we do do is not good enough. Pepper that with feelings of judgment, comparison and plain ole’ perfectionism and you’d nail what so many of us are experiencing on a daily basis.

Slowness as a practice

I’ve got a little story for you. 2006 was one of the biggest years of my life. It started out mellow enough with setting a few intentions here, voicing a goal or two there and by the end of it I’d bought a house, gotten married, and was a newly enrolled holistic nutrition student flying back and forth from Oakland to NYC to attend monthly classes.

What doesn't get done is as important as what does

Last week I gave a presentation to a group of 50 consultants on the topic of emotional resilience and how to stay connected to ourselves during chaos. We talked about our Itty Bitty Shitty Committees (the negative voices inside our head), how to find compassion for ourselves in the face of difficult feedback and giving voice to our struggles without either denying them or getting sucked into them.