Healing Our Inner Wounds

Everyone has been emotionally wounded. No one makes it to adulthood without experiencing fear and pain, and few of us consistently received the compassion and comfort we needed to feel safe and soothed during our most challenging times. Most of us have endured significant loss, grief, rejection, abandonment, humiliation, illness, injustice and more without knowing how to meet and treat those emotions. The good news is that we all have the capacity to heal our emotional wounds, and the first step is to bring them into the light of our awareness.

Myra GoodmanMarch 22, 2024Featured Teachers, Andrea Wachter

Making Peace with Your Body

Whether consciously or unconsciously, many of us are convinced that to be worthy of love and admiration we need to look a certain way—the way our current society deems ideal. This can make us feel shamefully lacking and lead to a highly critical and antagonistic relationship with our bodies.

Myra GoodmanMay 19, 2023Featured Teachers, Andrea Wachter, Body Image

Tackling Body Shame

Last month, a few weeks before my granddaughter’s 13th birthday, I let her know that I decided to stop gushing about how pretty she looks every time I see her. Instead of focusing on how good she looks on the outside, I told Amada that I want to start focusing on how wonderful she is on the inside, and how happy I always feel when I see her.

Myra GoodmanMay 5, 2023About Myra, Andrea Wachter, Body Image

Wrapping Our Arms Around Anxiety

This week, I’m sharing an article I wrote for Spirituality & Health magazine in collaboration with a wonderful psychotherapist and author, Andrea Wachter, who specializes in tools to ease stress, anxiety, and overwhelm. The article contains some wonderful practices, including a 12-minute meditation where you’re guided to speak directly to your anxiety, giving it compassion and loving redirection.

Myra GoodmanMay 13, 2022Featured Teachers, Andrea Wachter, Anxiety

Mothering Every Part of Ourselves

When I was 25 and pregnant with my first child, it became clear that I had to deal with my constant fear of an impending catastrophe. I’d been plagued by intense anxiety as long for as I could remember, but it was becoming increasingly difficult to manage. Unremitting worry that something would go horribly wrong with my baby was swelling along with my belly.

Myra GoodmanMay 6, 2022About Myra, Anxiety, Featured Teachers, Andrea Wachter