Posts in HEALTH AND WELLNESS

Let's Work It Out: How To Up Your Fitness Game (Without Breaking a Sweat)

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”

-C.G. Jung

WELLSTYLE, SELF-CARE, DESIRE. CONNECT. THRIVE., HEALTH AND WELLNESSKatie GustafsonMay 8, 2018#emotionalfitness, #onsiteworkshops, #exerciseyourheart, #designyourlife, #themodernbloomComment

A Direct Flight: Your Best Route to More Connection & Influence

“People don’t want to be impressed, they want to be seen.”

DESIRE. CONNECT. THRIVE., RELATIONSHIP INSPIRATION, HEALTH AND WELLNESSKatie GustafsonApril 24, 2018thebloomgroups, connection over comparison, beaninfluencer, themodernbloom, womensupportingwomenComment

Leaning into Loss- 4 Lessons on Grief

“Resilience comes from deep within us and from support outside us. It comes from gratitude for what’s good in our lives and from leaning in to the suck.”

Sheryl Sandberg

I recently attended an all-day workshop led by David Kessler, self-help author and grief guru. He is most well known for his groundbreaking work with Elisabeth Kubler Ross, a Swiss-American psychiatrist who pioneered what we know as hospice care as well as the Kubler-Ross model, or the five stages of grief (denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance).

HEALTH AND WELLNESS, SELF-CARE, PERSPECTIVES, LIFE PATTERNSKatie GustafsonAugust 10, 2017David Kessler, grief, option B, Sheryl SandbergComment

A Brainspotting Session with Dr. Grand

“Where we look affects how we feel.”

-Dr. David Grand

It’s 4:30 am and I’m wide awake. In fact, I haven’t slept a wink. Sure, I struggle on and off with insomnia, but that isn’t the reason for this lack-of-shut-eye situation.

BRAINSPOTTING, HEALTH AND WELLNESS, RESOURCES, SELF-CAREKatie GustafsonJune 14, 2017brain based therapy, brainspotting, David Grand, healing trauma, mind body, NYCComment

Hiking, Stephen Colbert, and the Importance of Celebration

Each day holds a surprise. But only if we expect it can we see, hear, or feel it when it comes to us. Let’s not be afraid to receive each day’s surprise, whether it comes to us as sorrow or as joy It will open a new place in our hearts, a place where we can welcome new friends and celebrate more fully our shared humanity.

Henri Nouwen

DESIRE. CONNECT. THRIVE., HEALTH AND WELLNESS, LIFE PATTERNS, RESOURCESKatie GustafsonMarch 30, 2017celebration, connection, conversation, henri nouwen, hiking, joy, meraki, Stephen ColbertComment