Here's Where to Start: Full Series
Welcome to Here’s Where to Start, a short series to help you find agency in your health through self-inquiry and action.
Here's Where to Start is comprised of 8 videos that teach about the importance of foundational habits. They include suggestions for rituals that set the ground for your transformation, and ideas for first steps toward observing your relationship to those habits and taking action.
This series includes an introductory lecture, and following videos on these foundational habits:
- sleep
- food
- hydration
- meditation
- emotional hygiene
- movement
- connection
Each video includes a PDF that summarizes the lecture and suggests prompts for reflection to help you begin to notice your habits and put new ones into practice.
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Here's Where to Start: Habits as Rituals (Mod 1)
Our bodies functionally need enough energy to operate in a balanced way, and there are some non-negotiable ways to preserve and build that energy.
This lecture begins with an introduction to the will, and why that’s important. Then, we dig a little deeper into our habits and how they relate to ...
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Here's Where to Start: Sleep (Mod 2)
A big contributing factor to strong foundational habits is being well-slept—simply put, it’s so much more attainable to set intentions and fulfill them if you have the energy for it.
This lecture suggests areas to consider when working on prioritizing sleep and techniques for rehabilitating your...
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Here's Where to Start: Food (Mod 3)
What we eat breaks down to facilitate repair of our bodies’ tissues, so it makes a lot of sense that we should have some clarity around what works dietarily for our particular bodies. In this lecture I share some general guidelines for what it means to eat well. I believe that this doesn’t have t...
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Here's Where to Start: Hydration (Mod 4)
Water is required for every single cellular function. Drinking enough water is one of the habits I talk about most in my practice, and it’s a key to feeling good.
This lecture discusses how you can identify your baseline hydration needs and ways to consider incorporating an appropriate amount of...
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Here's Where to Start: Meditation (Mod 5)
Meditation is a practice that has almost immeasurable benefits: most notably, it helps to integrate the shifts we make in a healing process. This lecture offers suggestions for creating a simple and reliable practice.
This video includes a PDF that summarizes the lecture and suggests prompts fo...
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Here's Where to Start: Emotional Hygiene (Mod 6)
Emotions are chemicals and not concepts, and they potentiate biochemical changes. This lecture suggests ways to consider your own engagement with your emotional experiences through the lens of related bodily sensations.
This video includes a PDF that summarizes the lecture and suggests prompts f...
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Here's Where to Start: Movement (Mod 7)
The opportunities for movement are so varied, and we require different activity levels in different life phases. This lecture discusses what a balanced approach to movement looks like.
This video includes a PDF that summarizes the lecture and suggests prompts for reflection to help you begin to ...
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Here's Where to Start: Connection (Mod 8)
Healing rests on and can help to repair the relationship with yourself, as well as with others. This lecture suggests ways to cultivate the relationship with yourself, to understand you body as your partner in health and not an inconvenience.
This video includes a PDF that summarizes the lectur...