by Coach Mauricio | Sep 16, 2024 | Blog
Tap the photo to watch the Instagram video There is an interesting conversation to be had about the subjectivity of the human experience, and when it is helpful to rely on your unique subjective experience to guide things versus relying on more apparently objective...
by Coach Mauricio | Sep 9, 2024 | Blog
It’s been a while since we’ve blogged! But since we have recently started creating more content to reach and help people with our best trauma-informed + evidence-based knowledge on our social channels, we thought it would be nice to share some of them with...
by Coach Mauricio | Apr 12, 2023 | Blog
I’m excited to share this lovely Dal recipe with you! But first, some context because I think the way I came about this could be insightful for you too. My food habits for the last few years have been oriented around fuel for health, for exercise, and time management....
by Coach Mauricio | Mar 22, 2023 | Blog
To this point, I’ve focused on stress-reduction exercises and concepts that are essentially an awareness and practice within your own body. That’s a great place to start and to keep coming back to. But it would be incomplete to imagine that the stress response you...
by Coach Sarah, FNP-BC, MSN | Mar 17, 2023 | Blog
Ok, so you’re trying to get more protein in, you keep hearing that breakfast is a good place to start, since most American style breakfasts are almost exclusively carbohydrate. One of your first search results when trying to google ‘how to eat more protein’ is those...
by Coach Mauricio | Mar 16, 2023 | Blog
So far in this series I’ve covered: -Part 1: humming exercises -Part 2: hot tub, sauna, cold water plunges -Part 3: fog horning (loud sounds), shaking it off -Part 4: playing and/or listening to music Do you notice anything these different types of therapeutic...
by Coach Mauricio | Feb 27, 2023 | Blog
In late 2020, we officially started Zen Strength & Conditioning. As you probably remember, that year was a pretty big shock to almost everyone. Change was in the air. For my personal experience, it was an initial increase in intensity of all aspects of my...
by Coach Mauricio | Feb 7, 2023 | Blog
In Part 1 & Part 2, we covered two different ways to reconnect with your body and settle your nervous system. If they worked for you, great. I highly recommend you lean into them as part of your daily and weekly routines. Thinking forward about my own...
by Coach Mauricio | Jan 30, 2023 | Blog
In Part 1 I talked about humming as a body-based activity to help settle your nervous system. If it worked for you, great. If not, try to stick with this process of exploring to find out what works for you. I want to go a different direction today, because in my...
by Coach Mauricio | Jan 25, 2023 | Blog
In the previous article It Starts With Mental Health, I finished with what may be a new and somewhat radical idea for you: the part of your brain that does the thinking, the prefrontal cortex, is only partially in control of the choices you make, like whether or not...
