by Ana Quirk | Apr 10, 2025 | Emotion
“Sit with your feelings”, they said. “That’s the solution!”, they said… but they never told you how. So you went home and decided to give it a try, only to end up going down an emotional spiral that left you feeling your feelings more intensely, but now with...
by Ana Quirk | Mar 5, 2025 | Mindfulness
What happens when we fall apart? When we are surrounded by change, the only constant there is, and pain, the only thing we know for certain we will experience in life? We often turn to temporary satisfaction and run away from suffering. After all, this is a basic...
by Ana Quirk | Feb 6, 2025 | 2025
A new year is here, coming in hot even though we’ve barely been above freezing temperatures in the past couple of weeks. Typically, people are thinking about new goals, projects, resolutions, and plans for the future. However, I prefer a slower, more gentle approach...
by Ana Quirk | Dec 30, 2024 | Winter
The days are getting shorter and darker, and we’ve already had our first snowfall of the season. Soon, it will be the Winter Solstice (at least as I write this), and we will have the shortest day and the longest night of the year, officially marking the beginning of...
by Ana Quirk | Dec 27, 2024 | Self-Compassion
We’ve all heard of self-compassion, but most of us have an incomplete concept of this practice, and it’s time we talk about it. The word “compassion” is derived from latin, and it means “to suffer with”. Compassion refers to the way we respond to suffering, whether...
