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The Illusion of Time and How to Slow it Down
A mind-bending look at what we call time and what influences our perception of it
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Sarah Chauncey
How to Separate Facts from Stories
“The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.”
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Sarah Chauncey
Learning How to Observe Thoughts
The most important life skill nobody ever taught us
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Sarah Chauncey
How to Differentiate Between Thoughts and Feelings
We humans are complex beings. We have brains that generate thoughts, a connected physiological system that creates emotions, and six or more senses that…
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Sarah Chauncey
How to Get from Resistance to Acceptance
Paradox: Only action taken from a place of acceptance is effective
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Sarah Chauncey
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How to Calm Your Nervous System by Accepting Just this Moment
Accept the facts, not the story.
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Sarah Chauncey
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Happy Holidays and A Name Change
Living the Mess is becoming the Counterintuitive Guide to [Navigating] Life
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Sarah Chauncey
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Five Ways to Feel Abundant When Everything is Expensive
$2 for a single apple? Seriously? Here are some ways to find relief.
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Sarah Chauncey
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The Surprising Ways Difficult Emotions Help Us Grow (A case study. Of me.)
Intense emotions can help us heal, if we know how to work with them
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Sarah Chauncey
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How to Find Peace While Using Social Media
Use the paradoxical acronym THINK before you comment
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Sarah Chauncey
LTM Classic: 6 Benefits of Slowing Down
Your innate value has nothing to do with your level of busyness
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Sarah Chauncey
Mindfulness and Presence Can Sound Similar. Here's How They Differ.
And when to use which practice
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Sarah Chauncey
To Find Peace, Learn to Direct Your Attention
Inner peace is all about making deliberate choices, again and again
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Sarah Chauncey
How is Your Mental Nutrition and Fitness?
The mind, Sylvia Boorstein says, is like tofu. It absorbs what we feed it.
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Sarah Chauncey
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The Counterintuitive Guide to Life
The Counterintuitive Guide to Life
Navigate life with greater ease by discovering the paradoxes of life on this planet. My writing is rooted in personal experience, bolstered by ancient spiritual wisdom, science, and occasionally pop culture. I'm kinda like an uncool Weird Barbie.
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