How to Be At Home Wherever You Are | Cauldrons and Cupcakes “Home wasn’t a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together. Not a place, but a moment, and then another, building on each other like bricks to create a solid shelter that you take with you for your entire life, wherever you may go.” ~ Sarah Dessen, What Happened to Goodbye Did you read my post about the energies of October? “October is a month for nestling and cocooning. After the post went up I was flooded with emails and messages from people who are not living at home right now, or who travel a lot, or for whatever other reason are feeling displaced. Your October post brought tears to my eyes because I just moved to xxxxxx last week and feel anything but a sense of home and belonging. Home isn’t a place, it’s a feeling. If you travel a lot make a small grab bag of a few significant items. Give yourself time to acclimatise to wherever you are. Like this: Like Loading...
Resources for Epic Movement - Uncaged Human Every uncaged human needs a little help on their journey to baddassity. These are some of the programs and tools that have helped me most along my journey. I encourage you to explore them and decide what works best for you. Full disclosure: Some of these resources are free, and some aren’t. Becoming a flexible beast, even if you’re not a flexible person (like me) I’ll be honest, I was never naturally flexible. But then something weird happened, I focused on flexibility, really worked at it and would you look at that, I made some pretty damn good progress. Here’s how I used Focused Flexibility from GMB to go from a stiff board to a supple beast. Click here to learn about focused flexibility. Upper body strength with the gymnastics rings I’ve gone through the Rings 1 and Rings 2 programs from GMB and each have taken my upper body strength to the next level. Click here to get started with Gymnastic Rings training. Foundations of epic movement (don’t skip this) Strength and mobility tools Podcasts
New? Start Here - Uncaged Human If you’re new here it can be a lot to try to digest all of the posts published to date. To make things easier, I’ve compiled the “greatest hits” for you on one page. These cover the fundamentals of what the uncaging movement is all about. If you’re looking for programs and gear I recommend, check out the resources for epic movement page. If you’re looking for more intensive help, one-on-one, check out my coaching page. Without further ado, here are the most popular posts to date: How to Reverse the Damage of Sitting and Human Domestication How I Went From a Stiff Board to a Supple Beast in 10 Months How to Move Like a Hero: The Daily Practice The Ultimate Guide to Superhuman Movement How the Old World of Fitness Died (and the new era of moving heroically) The 30 Day Primal Squat Challenge How to do the Deep, Flat-Footed Squat If you have a request for a topic you haven’t seen covered, let me know and there’s a good chance I’ll create an article or video on it.
5 of the best reasons to exercise (getting healthy isn't one) - Jacki Hayes Welcome. If you are new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed so you don't miss my next post. Thanks for visiting! For years, exercise has been branded as a way to lose weight. Exercise for your health. Seems like a healthier alternative (pun intended). Yet, women over the age of 50 are among the most sedentary in the United States, and as they age, their activity level only decreases. We would think that health and longevity would be effective motivators for exercise as we age, but the numbers show that a concern for health just isn’t enough. If health isn’t our answer to the motivation problem, what is? Motivation and goals Let’s start by understanding goals. Theories behind goals state that we are motivated to change our behaviors when our current experience or state of being doesn’t match our desires. For instance, we might go to bed 30 minutes earlier each night because we want to have more energy each day. There exists a hierarchy to our goals. Or so the theory goes.
How to Worry Less Southeast Asia is always teeming with Western backpackers, and there’s a silent competition among them to appear the most relaxed. You can get an idea of who’s been “in country” for some time based on how unfazed they appear in sketchy situations. Something that rattles you on the first day in Bangkok—a taxi ignoring a red light, a housecat bedding down beneath your table in a restaurant, a motorcycle using the sidewalk to sneak past a traffic jam—seems mundane a week later. So when you’re on an overcrowded boat that seems as if it’s about to capsize with every wave, some of your fellow passengers can appear almost supernaturally relaxed. It’s hard to know who’s truly at ease in the tumult, and who’s trying to look like they are. But you know that some of them really have achieved a Keith-Richards-like level of easygoingness, because you start to see it happening to you. There are two major problems with waiting for these moments before you let yourself relax: That’s it.
4 Habits to Help You Get Through the Worst Times of Your Life Some of life’s best lessons are learned through the worst times. ~ Ani DiFranco Living doesn’t always comes easy. Life can seem like a series of losses. I lost my brother this week and it hurt. Loss is part of being alive and when things come crashing down around you, and you find yourself going through your worst times, you’ll need strong habits to fall back on. I’ve spent a lot of time experimenting with habits that would help me to not totally fall apart when the worst times rolled around. Here’s some of the things I’ve learned and I encourage you to remember that in your greatest struggles you will discover a strength you didn’t know you had. 1. You might lose your good health, you might lose your job, lose a loved one, go through difficulties with others, be involved in divorce but if you stay connected to your inner self, however bowed you are, you won’t be broken. The outer circumstances of your life matter, but they can’t take away your inner peace and strength without your consent.
New Articles My 2015 love list: tools, books, music, projects & people that I love and recommend. Once a year or so, I release a new “love list”: A collection of time- and sanity-saving tools, service providers that I heartily recommend, books that have inspired me, groovy music, and more. Here’s my list for 2015. If you’re a writer, creative freelancer, business owner, or simply someone who enjoys discovering new tools to help your workday flow more productively, this list is for you. Enjoy! – Freshbooks. – AWeber. – Spotify. – Gumroad. – Unroll.me. – Paul Jarvis designed my current website and he is a consummate pro. – I’ve done several photo shoots with Danielle Cohen and she is just… divine. – Looking for a professional copywriter / ghostwriter / word-wrangler? – Looking for someone to do proofreading, research, manage projects, and generally just make your digital life easier? – Die Empty left a powerful imprint on my heart. – I love podcasts! Caramels from Quin. That’s a wrap! -Alex I think so. PS.
Are You In Survival Mode For No Good Reason? | Cauldrons and Cupcakes “Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!” ~ Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre Most of us are used to pushing, to working hard, to gritting our teeth and carrying on. If there is a crisis in your life, that is often the only thing to be done. Friends, that’s not a great plan. When we constantly push ourselves, and stress ourselves, we begin to alter our body’s chemistry. If you are genuinely in crisis, with an abnormal amount of stress due to external conditions and circumstances, I wish you well and I pray for you the strength to get through these times the best that you can. But if your whole life looks like a crisis, and you’re tired to the bones, numb from the grind of it all – maybe it’s time to change something. When we get to that place we stop making good decisions and default to auto-pilot. Here are my top tips for moving back to a place of flow and balance so that you can begin enjoying life, and health, again: Simplify. Life is not always easy. Like this: