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Viewing My Anxiety as an Outside Force

By Kendra Kantor | Published 04/11/2014

One of the meditations I’ve learned recently is to help accept anxiety as it is. It starts with visualizing the anxiety in your body. See it as an object, what is the color, shape, texture etc. Every single time I do this meditation, I see myself lying down (I’m always in a grove in a […]

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Dis-Engaging From My Thoughts and Using Art as a Reminder

By Kendra Kantor | Published 03/18/2014

I think one of the most important lessons I’ve learned from working with Naomi Goodlet so far was this: Just because I have a thought, doesn’t mean I have to engage that thought. As much as anxiety is a physical feeling, at it’s core it is reaction to our thoughts. I’m learning that if I […]

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Join Me for My New Creative #MindfulMondayPractice

By Kendra Kantor | Published 11/15/2013

I’ve never been good at meditating. Or I haven’t practiced enough to figure out what works for me, I guess. I know that the idea of a “mindfulness meditation” or some kind of “mindfulness” practice is really intriguing to me. I am the kind of person that is forever stuck in her own damn head […]

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