Typing Our Kids Using the Enneagram
It makes sense that we want to use the tools that help us see ourselves more clearly to also see our children through that same clarity by using the Enneagram. When is it okay to type kids?
Self Care for Moms Who Have No Time
Kristin Baker is an Executive coach, and co-founder of a startup called LUMO, whose mission is to help companies support and retain their working parents. She shares the research backed phenomenon of micro actions for moms to WIN at caring for themselves.
Identifying Your Enneagram Type
Finding your dominant Enneagram Type can be straight forward, and for other folks, feel like a real challenge. Erin shares tips on how to identify your your type within the 27 distinct archetypes available within the model.
Honoring Yourself During the Holidays
Creating your own values for the season can help you recenter yourself when you get pulled by competing demands and expectations of others. Here are some goals to keep in mind to shift your experience this holiday season.
Exploring Maternal Identity Development
At different points in our lives, the way we think about who we are shifts in important and major ways. Roxanne Rosenberg, LCMHC, PMH-C is Co-Founder and Clinical Director of Anchor Perinatal Wellness. In this post, she discusses maternal identity development.
An Introduction to the Enneagram
The Enneagram is a model of personality designed to help us practice an embodied sense of self through the collective integration of our head, heart, and body. By identifying our Enneagram type, we can see more clearly what motivates our thoughts, feelings, and actions, so we don’t have to live at the mercy of these unconscious forces.
5 Ways to Begin Breaking Up with Toxic Diet Culture
Diet culture is a pervasive obsession that promotes body size over actual health and wellness: mentally, physically, spiritually, emotionally. Dr. Lisa Folden, a weight inclusive, licensed physical therapist, as well as an anti diet, health wellness and body image coach in Charlotte, North Carolina shares five ways to begin breaking up with toxic diet culture.
Internalized Fat Phobia
Larger bodied people are discriminated against in the workplace, educational environments and even in the medical setting. So, it makes sense that the vast majority of us see fatness (or the appearance thereof) as something to be avoided at all costs. By maintaining these internalized feelings, we are perpetuating the harm done to people in larger bodies and ultimately, to everyone.
Motherhood and The Battle Against “Thin Ideal”
When was the last time you ate consciously and freely without calculating or rationalizing your food choices? If it’s been longer than you care to admit, you’re not alone. We live in a culture that’s consumed with weight and body image, which is especially detrimental to mothers who have a heart to “do it all” and look like a picture of perfection.
Mother Comes First
It’s time to expose and debunk some of the common motherhood myths that suggest mothers should always be selfless, exhausted, and happy about it.