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If your cancer experience challenged you on every level…

If you long for community, but not one that focuses on the details of diagnosis, medications, or all the ways to sugarcoat reality…

If you want space held for the beauty, suffering, power and sacredness of your emotional and spiritual journey…

If you’ve been cracked open…

You’re in the right place.

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I’m Kelly Inselmann. I’m a cancer survivor, a psychotherapist and Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and yoga teacher/therapist of over 20 years. I’ll help you create space for your joy, without sugar-coating any part of your reality, so you can reconnect with the pulse of your life3-hearts

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Each Monday, I share a reflection on the emotional recovery experience and staying connected to joy.

This week’s meditation:

Learn more about the benefits of meditation, mantra, and visualization.

The Benefits of Mantra

  • Effective at interrupting negative thinking, obsessive worry, and rumination
  • Helps the mind focus on a neutral, uplifting idea.
  • Stimulates the vagus nerve to relax the nervous system
  • The tongue touches meridian points in the upper palate that correspond to the brain and glandular system, creating a state of emotional wellbeing.
  • The vibration itself creates chemical changes in the brain which feel good, even blissful.
  • From a spiritual perspective, chanting helps us align with the Divine in ourselves and in the universe.

Benefits of Meditation

  • Effective tool for understanding and managing emotions
  • Increases our ability to extend compassion to ourselves and others
  • Creates stability of mind
  • Lowers inflammation
  • Lowers stress
  • Lowers anxiety and depression
  • Reduces pain
  • Improves capacity to tolerate discomfort
  • Lowers blood pressure
  • Improves immune system functioning
  • Improves memory

Benefits of Visualization

  • Lets you enter a state of relaxation
  • Interrupts and reduces insomnia, anxiety, and fear
  • Helps overcome limiting beliefs
  • Helps you remember your strength and confidence
  • Sets positive intentions and directs you to see possibilities
  • Helps you tolerate procedures and treatments more easily
  • Stimulates healing responses in the body and mind
  • Feels good!
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