Heather Rozen's Blog

Are You Listening? anxiety body scan culture pain well-being May 09, 2024

What would happen if you gave yourself the opportunity to stop and listen to the messages your body was sending you? What would you hear? What is that tension telling you? The tightness in the neck...

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A Letter From My Body body image self love womens health Nov 14, 2023

Dear Heather,

I’ve served you well for 52 years. And yet, you walked by the mirror and gave me a look of disappointment earlier today. 

Wishing that you filled out that dress. Hmmm,...

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I Am Enough anxiety culture people pleaser stress women Oct 25, 2023

I lay there in the dark while everyone else was sleeping. My eyes open. I felt the familiar tension in my solar plexus. I was perplexed because I did all the things that I thought I would need to...

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What a Woman Could Do anxiety culture overwhelm people pleaser people pleasing stress women Oct 25, 2023

What could a woman do today that would serve her, her family and her community all in one fell swoop? She could put herself first. To put herself first would mean that her actions would be dictated...

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How Asking 4 Questions Can Change Your Mood anxiety byron katie emotions mood stress suffering the work thoughts May 02, 2023

Questioning our thoughts can put an end to unnecessary suffering and change our perspectives. 

The older I get the more I realize that my suffering and distress is caused by my own thinking....

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Back Pain, Cultural Conditioning , and Unasked Questions back pain cultural conditioning driving pain people pleasing sitting work pressure Apr 11, 2023

Cultural pressures cause us to sit for far longer  than we are comfortable doing, work more than we want to and say yes to things we want to say no to. 

Back pain of course has many...

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Finding Relief With Self-Compassion anxiety emotions fear grief kindness sadness self-compassion self-criticism self-talk stress Mar 16, 2023

Making ourselves wrong for having certain emotions causes suffering. Giving space to these emotions, and speaking kindly to ourselves when we feel them, can cause an appreciable shift in our moods....

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Mindlessly Eating Better dieting mentality holidays intuitive eating mindful eating mindless eating weight gain weight loss Dec 20, 2022

 

Last week I wrote about how diet culture impacts our relationship with food and sets us up for binging, deprivation and cycling weight. The focus of that article was making peace with food....

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Are You Eating From Inspiration or Deprivation? dieting mentality intuitive eating relationship with food Dec 01, 2022

 

Completely repairing your relationship with food is a process. It is well beyond the scope of this brief article.

However, we can certainly start the repair process so that January...

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