Community Routes Podcast

The world has had so much unrest with recent events. Today many of us were covered in a blanket of snow. It gave a nervous system reset to me as I watched the snow falling. ❄️❄️❄️ It’s a really complex world out there. There is a lot of grief and lament that becomes a collective trauma we hold in our nervous systems as some react, some shut down, and sometimes we are in sheer disbelief and utter anguish. Look for moments of stillness. Use your voice where you can. Reflect on the goodness around you. Consider how you can reach the suffering if you have it in your capacity to do so today. One of the lessons nature gave me today, along with the day of pause, was that really little things really do add up. At times the snowflakes were so tiny you could hardly see them. Their persistence continued. The impact was palpable. We get to be here today. We can join with all the others walking this path and see that we aren’t alone. See all that snow??? We are one small piece of a greater whole. And it makes a huge difference. We are so glad you are here.

Our Community Routes family is thinking of you in the midst of celebration, grief, reflection, and wherever you find yourself today. Check out our latest episode for this year’s holiday help.

Sarah leads us through this Deep Breath as she reviews box breathing and challenges us to extend the exhales. 🔲 📦💨

This Deep Breath has lots of affirmations and encouragement using a "both/and" lens. 🌱 🧠 💕

Your journey and your story is valid. Bring your feelings of loss, grief, or pain and learn some tools to deal with things differently. 🧰 🔨🔧

We are here to walk with you! 🏠🌍💡

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How do you go from feeling drained to feeling connected and empowered? Having resiliency helps us to keep leaning in and have hope. 🌱

Noticing glimmers that are life giving teaches us that small things, ordinary things, are doable and possible! ✨

Learn to find joy and delight in the present moment. This is a practice, a skill, a muscle to build mindfulness, to be here now. 🎯

Resiliency brings you back to the baseline, to bend like a tree in the wind. 🌳

This episode with clinical psychologist Jenny Hughes focuses on practical mental health habits that help us grow in self-awareness and communication with others! 💡🏠

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