Coming Home to Your Body: Getting To Know Your Nervous System
Wisdom Wednesdays with Betsy Wednesday, September 6 @ Noon CST Coming Home to Your Body: Getting To Know Your Nervous System Did you know that the average person goes into the fight or flight stress response 8-20 times per day? On the surface this seems “bad”, but this isn’t necessarily problematic, as long as our nervous […]
How to find calm in a divisive world
I received an email several months back from someone in our community asking if I would be willing to address her question in an upcoming Wisdom Wednesday. She wrote, “How do we achiever inner calm and live in a loving and compassionate way with the divisive state of our world?”. She went on to explain how […]
Breaking out of the boxes that bind
What messages did you get during your early years that put you in a box? Watch the replay of this Wisdom Wednesday here I asked this question to the 32 women and men on my recent retreat in Costa Rica, and we quickly filled up a white board with the messages we heard that have […]
The Need for Purification
The Need for Purification of Body, Mind, and Spirit in the Spring Are you feeling the need to lighten your load? Now is the time for Spring cleaning of our body, our energy, and our minds (and maybe the garage too). In this month’s Wisdom Wednesday we explore the need to purify our systems from the […]
Highest Form of Intelligence: Awareness without Judgement
A Message from Betsy I recently learned that the average attention span of human beings is 8 seconds. Twenty years ago it was 12 seconds. We’ve lost a whopping 4 seconds (which seems like a lot) thanks to the information age and the constant barrage of content coming at us. And to put this all in context, […]
The Many Moods of Spring
April 5th, 2023 The Many Moods of Spring: Riding the Emotional Waves Spring is an optimistic season as the light returns and the green shoots begin popping up. It can also be the harbinger of a confusing roller coaster of emotions. In this month’s Wisdom Wednesday, Dr. Betsy will normalize and explain why you might be […]
Spring Expansion
March 24th, 2023 I spent Wednesday at a staff planning meeting at Prairiewoods. It’s amazing what fresh air and communing with nature can do to freshen up your creative thinking. One of my favorite moments was communing with what has been called “Grandmother Tree” on the property. I was intuitively pulled to put my legs up the tree […]
Your Joy Matters
February 24th, 2023 It has been awhile since I wrote to the community. I’ve been in my “winter cave” these past months feeling the energy of hibernation with little desire to poke my head out into the world. Winter is the season of going inward. I have been using the energy of winter with its fewer […]
Imbolc_ Yoga Practice & Wisdom Wednesday
February 1st, 2023 Yoga Practice with Betsy for Imbolc In this 75 minute class we explore how this time of year beckons us to look forward and look back. Lots of twists, culminating with Brigid’s Cross (Imbolc is associated with the Goddess Brigid), provide a chance to purify the system and prepare yourself to […]
Imbolc
February 1st, 2023 Practices for Body, Energy & Mind as our Life Force Re-Awakens at Imbolc Join Dr. Betsy for Wisdom Wednesday (the first Wednesday of every month) as she dives a bit deeper into topics from the traditions of psychology, neuroscience, and yoga. The intention of these conversations is inspiration to live more aligned […]