Living by Light

Living by Light   Whenever I’m camping, I fall into the rhythm of sunset and sunrise. The natural bedtime grows in the space allowed by putting my phone to bed and listening to the chatter of the wild. As sleep settles in a rhythm, the waking follows with ease, carried on the glow of sunrise. …

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Later Hunting

What We’ve Been Putting Off Even without pandemic pressures, “Laters” tend to pile up. Some laters are the usual… need to schedule the dentist, time to change the oil in the car, must get out to visit family members we haven’t seen in too long. But laters also include things like stopping at the farmer’s…

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Use Your Body To Clear Your Mind

A Body-First Approach to Responding to Stress   This week I’ve been thinking about the mind/body connections of stress, anxiety, and negative emotions. When emotional triggers pop up in life, one of the most effective things we can do is to give ourselves space by interrupting our physical stress response. It’s nice when we can interrupt…

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Use Your Body to Build a Resilient Mind

A Stress Reduction Technique from the Wild + Brave Coaching Archive This live coaching originally broadcast on June 11, 2020 and features Wild + Brave’s Coach Morgan Hendrix, and several Wild + Brave Humans (thank you to Johnna, Willian, and Anthony for contributing to the live conversation) who added their insights to the live coaching…

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Stop Telling Tidy Stories

Change How We Share Our Experience Enjoy an episode of the Wild + Brave Life Podcast, by Coach Morgan Hendrix, and Lew Hastings, tackling the Obituary Effect, Perfectionism in Storytelling, and how a small change in the way we share our experiences can reduce loneliness, alienation, and suicide. What we often do is tell Tidy…

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Time to “Work Happy”

Introducing “Work Happy” Here at Wild + Brave, we believe that your experience of work matters. Being engaged at work is a key ingredient to living a vibrant life. We also believe that if we do not learn to engage with work in a vibrant way, we will be caught in a waiting pattern and…

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Recovering From Compassion Fatigue

Time for an adventure… For some of you reading this, you know me pretty well by now. As an adventurer, rooftop tent camper, and lover of all things wild + brave…you may be hoping my advice for recovering from compassion fatigue is that you must escape it. Perhaps a 4-day weekend in the mountains, or…

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Cultivating Optimism to Become Resilient

Optimism isn’t being happy, or putting a positive spin on life. In fact, the scientific definition of Optimism borrowed from the field of positive psychology, has the power to transform our experience of life, and bring more resilience to every situation. The Scientific Definition of Optimism Here at Wild + Brave we keep company with…

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Transforming Negative Environments (the easy way)

What if you could profoundly improve your environment by changing the way you handle some tiny things? Usually when an environment is toxic, negative, or stressful for any reason; we pull back. We may compartmentalize our personality, watch what we say, and try to sneak by under the radar. Or we may get on the…

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Desk Vacation Challenge

  Today my heart is at the beach but my body is at my desk. So when my Fitbit reminded me to move – I got up from my desk, closed my eyes and took a mini mental vacation to my favorite beach. As I took a few slow deep breaths, I could feel the…

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