by Manya Chylinski | Mar 9, 2020 | Health, Mindfulness
We all know there are steps to take to improve our mental health. Meditation and yoga, reduced phone and computer use, participating in physical exercise – these are just some of the activities experts advise can help us feel better and reduce stress. But did you know...
by Manya Chylinski | Feb 20, 2020 | Mental health, Mindfulness, Trauma
When you hear the word trauma, you may think about one type—physical trauma. But there is another type of trauma which is not easily recognized by the naked eye—emotional trauma. The common misconception is that emotional trauma isn’t a physical injury, that diagnoses...
by Manya Chylinski | Dec 26, 2019 | Mental health, Mindfulness, Post-Traumatic Stress, Resiliency, Trauma
This sounded so silly the first time I heard it: Your brain hears what you say. Of course your brain hears what you say, and it hardly needs to hear anyway since whatever I say came from that very same brain. Right? But once I learned this concept in a mindfulness...
by Manya Chylinski | Jan 21, 2019 | Corporate Resiliency, Mindfulness
In some circles these days, one of the buzziest of buzzwords is mindfulness. The simplest definition: the practice of maintaining a nonjudgmental state of heightened or complete awareness of one’s thoughts, emotions, or experiences on a moment-to-moment basis....
by Manya Chylinski | Sep 26, 2018 | Mental health, Mindfulness, Post-Traumatic Stress
What I learned as a survivor of a crime Like a lot of us, I was just going about my regular life. Before the trauma, I thought I was doing a pretty good job. I would have told you at the time that I was reasonably aware of what I wanted out of life, how to get there,...
by Manya Chylinski | Sep 12, 2018 | Mindfulness, Post-Traumatic Stress
Before my trauma, if you’d asked I would’ve told you that I was pretty aware of my own sense of self and how I interacted with the world. After my trauma, I look back on my naïve self and smile. I was doing the best I could with the information I had at the time and I...
