by Carol Holguin | Oct 26, 2022 | mid-life transition, Self-care
I set out to write a blog about being true to yourself, and this is what came out on the page… My Mom has a digital picture frame that the grandkids gave her several years ago. All the grandkids send photos that show up on this screen and then join the other photos...
by Carol Holguin | Oct 12, 2022 | Mid-life archetype quiz, mid-life transition, Self-care
In a Trauma Touch Therapy™ workshop I attended years ago, we participated in a boundaries exercise where two people are partnered up. One sits on the floor as the other comes closer and sits across from her. It is the job of the person sitting on the floor to tell the...
by Carol Holguin | Sep 28, 2022 | Mid-life archetype quiz, mid-life transition, resilience, Self-care
Let’s talk about mid-life transitions. Mid-life can be a long transition – starting somewhere around forty years of age and ending around sixty years of age. Within these twenty years, other life transitions may occur: Aging parents may need more care or may...
by Carol Holguin | Sep 21, 2022 | Mid-life archetype quiz, mid-life transition, Self-care
“People may call what happens at midlife “a crisis.” But it’s not. It’s an unraveling – a time when you feel a desperate pull to live the life you want to live, not the one you’re supposed to live.” Brene’ Brown Navigating mid-life can be confusing. Just at the time...
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 –...
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