by Andrea Trank | Mar 14, 2022
Lessons from Centenarians Teach Us How to Age More Gracefully! For years whenever someone complimented me, I would smile and redirect the conversation. I did not realize I was doing it. I had adopted this approach because I believed it was what I was supposed to do....
by Andrea Trank | Feb 20, 2022
How much time each day do you need to manage your stress and feel your best? I used to think I needed to spend 30 minutes in the morning meditating, 1 hour or so doing exercise daily, and another 30 minutes at night back to meditating. However, after many years of...
by Andrea Trank | Feb 13, 2022
Did you know that it is Random Acts of Kindness Week? Kindness is a way we can all get into a heart/brain coherent state more easily. HeartMath defines physiological coherence as a state when your cardiovascular, respiratory, endocrine, and nervous systems within your...
by Andrea Trank | Jan 30, 2022
2022 is just one month old and one intention has been realized! One month into 2022, how are your New Year’s Intentions or Resolutions going? I fulfilled one of mine already. I declared 2022 the year I was going to get to know my darling granddaughter Isabela, who...
by Andrea Trank | Jan 9, 2022
My Yoga Does Not Look Like This! I remember when I was first trained as a yoga teacher 7 years ago being surprised by the fact that Yoga was originally developed for teenage boys training to be monks. Over time I really came to understand how important that fact is...
by Andrea Trank | Jan 2, 2022
Why is it so difficult to communicate kindly and clearly with your loved ones? Holidays are great right? Not always! Communication issues can be very draining during the Holidays. People are complicated and they draw different conclusions from the same event after...
by Andrea Trank | Dec 28, 2021
What is Toning and How Can It Improve Your Health? Toning is nothing new. Many ancient healers understood that sound has healing properties. When retired corporate executive, 68-year-old Eric Knouse discovered it, he was experimenting on himself using the HeartMath...
by Andrea Trank | Dec 5, 2021
Understanding and Changing Behaviors are not the Same What works when you are trying to change your autonomic nervous system’s reaction to events and situations? As I pointed out in part 1 of this series, (see earlier blog post here) there is a reason your...
by Andrea Trank | Nov 28, 2021
Finding New Ways to Heal through Understanding our Biology! “A symptom will persist until it is understood, not pathologized”. These words struck me as incredibly wise as I was attending the Polyvagal Institute’s Many Voices of Polyvagal Theory Virtual...
by Andrea Trank | Nov 21, 2021
Looks Can Be Deceiving When You Have Hashimoto’s On Monday last week, I was looking and feeling great as I had new professional photos taken of me. By Tuesday morning, I felt sick as a dog. This, unfortunately, is quite typical for people with chronic health...
