by Carol Holguin | Jul 19, 2020 | body to soul, resilience, Self-care
A little more than three years ago, I was sitting on my sofa in our little apartment in Irvine, California, having a conversation with my dear friend, Kimberly. Kimberly was participating in a clinical trial for a genetic treatment for lung cancer and I had...
by Carol Holguin | Jul 3, 2020 | body to soul, resilience, Self-care, stress response
Dancing, jumping, shaking it out My father died a few years ago. At first I felt as if I had lost my footing. That I no longer knew who I was. I would get up in the morning with a sense of floating. And, if I was lucky, I would settle into my normal routine –...
by Carol Holguin | Jun 26, 2020 | body to soul, resilience, Self-care, stress response
Stress First Aid Stress first aid is a quick way of getting out of the story of stress and into the right now. Because anxiety that is triggered is from past experience, getting back to the present is key to feeling safe in your body, and mind. Practicing these tools...
by Carol Holguin | Jun 21, 2020 | body to soul, resilience, Self-care
My Dad was a big man, with a big voice that could quiet a room. My Mom called it “holding court”, and that’s what it felt like when you were audience to one of his monologues. He would get fired up about some political or current event and there was no doubt how he...
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