Rebecca Doring Wellness

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Rebecca Doring Wellness

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We used to be known as
Quiet Spruce Wellness Center

Are you looking for massage therapy in New Milford, CT?
We highly recommend Jessica O’Connor, LMT

Jessica has worked with us at QSWC for years, working with our clients. She is now in our old space at
53 Bank Street, New Milford, CT

Book an appointment with her by calling 860-806-6074

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What if taking your own self-care – not just to su

What if taking your own self-care - not just to survive each day, but to THRIVE - were not only unselfish, but could be some of the beat work you could do for yourself AND everyone around you?

Skeptical?

I was for sure.

When I practiced self-care outside of fulfilling basic needs, I stewed in a pit of guilt.

Wasn’t I just taking valuable time away from those around me by caring for myself?

When I dove into the world of wellness practices like yoga, meditation, enjoying nature, play, fun…and started seeing how much BETTER I felt on my own and with others, I realized that this is important stuff.

When I’d be there for others from a FULL place, there was no overwhelm, resentment, or exhaustion coupled with it.

What was even more surprising was that when I’d care for myself in that way, it created a ripple effect that touched everyone I interacted with.

Listen to the whole story in The Deep Rooted Bliss Podcast, Episode 31: 5 Reasons Self-Care Isn’t Selfish.

Let me know what resonates with you in the comments below!

Have you ever worried that taking the time to care

Have you ever worried that taking the time to care of yourself is selfish?

I struggled with this for a long time.

Only when I began to give myself care - and I don’t just mean basic survival kind of care, I mean self-care that allows me to not just survive but to thrive - I realized how much BETTER care I could offer others when I was full and well myself.

Make sure you’re subscribed to The Deep Rooted Bliss Podcast to be the first to listen to this week’s new episode, available tomorrow, all about how not only self-care is NOT selfish, how it just might be the thing that makes your life AND the lives of those around you so much better.

Stay tuned!

When you’re feeling super stressed out…do you

When you’re feeling super stressed out…do you know how to change your own state??

And I don’t mean changing your situation, surroundings, or the people around you…

I mean, shifting how you feel internally.

For the longest time, I thought the ONLY way to feel better was to change everything around me.

A simple breathing technique opened the possibility of a new way of living - one where I have power over how I feel and react to my surroundings rather than the powerlessness I used to experience.

Learning a quick tool that shifts the body from the stress response to the relaxation response gave me a feeling of empowerment in my own body.

I felt like I finally could DO something to feel differently if I chose to.

Check out today’s podcast episode…Episode 30 - Change Your Breath, Change How You Feel: A Step-By-Step Guide…on The Deep Rooted Bliss Podcast for a tutorial, 5 min of guiding, and the inspiration and story behind it.

Have you ever felt so overwhelmed even the idea of

Have you ever felt so overwhelmed even the idea of thinking of something to do to help feels impossibly overwhelming??

I know that feeling well.

In that moment EVERYTHING is overwhelming, right?

Which is why I’ve curated a printable list of my favorite go-to quick self-care strategies…

🌲quick ones to do on-the-go

🌲short breathing techniques

🌲 joy-inducing simple practices

🌲grounding methods

🌲restful, stress-releasing tactics

🌲and more…

Best part is?

👉It’s FREE, and printable so you can place it somewhere handy so that it’s there for you during those tough, overwhelming moments.

🙌Get your free copy of the On-The-Go Self-Care Idea Guide For Overwhelm now!

✨Download free copy at link in bio!

How do you move THROUGH fear and anxiety, rather t

How do you move THROUGH fear and anxiety, rather than tighten and resist against it? 🤔

This has been a question of mine my whole life.

I remember being afraid of so many things…

Random, seemingly silly things like roller coasters, boats, flying…

And other things like putting myself out there, saying no, sticking up for myself.

I didn’t know how to move through that fear and instead tried to avoid that feeling at all costs.

While I’ve been discovering how to feel the fear of putting myself out there and do it anyway for years now, that fear of ‘silly’ things still remained.

Last year I learned that I love to run, trail run specifically.

And one of my fears seemed to get worse…my fear of dogs I don’t know, off leash and running towards me.

It’s a fear I’ve had my whole life and one I’ve been so embarrassed about (especially since I actually love dogs).

This new running hobby pushed me to confront it. And I found a book that changed everything. (If you share this fear or know someone who does, GET THIS BOOK - overcomefearofdogs)

What I’ve discovered is that by learning how to move THROUGH this fear using the tips in the book, I’ve been learning how to finally move through fear itself - and it is loosening it’s hold on me in ALL areas of my life.

For the whole story - AND for the simple steps I’m taking to move through this feeling - listen to Episode 26 of my podcast: Moving Through Fear & Anxiety.

Link in bio or find it on iTunes, Spotify, or where you listen to podcasts. The Deep Rooted Bliss Podcast

✨’Within you, there is a stillness and a sanct

✨’Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at anytime and be yourself.’ - Herman Hesse

This so accurately describes how I feel about my yoga mat and my meditation practice…

…I remember the days before I had access to this inner sanctuary, and in its place I felt overwhelmed and worried so much of the time.

If you’re ready to deepen your practice or begin the journey toward connecting to your inner sanctuary…I’m here to help!

My schedule has opened up to allow for taking on 2 new one-on-one yoga and/or meditation students!

If you’re local we can meet in person, if you’re not we can connect online.

Send me an email to set up a free consult to discuss your goals and see if we are a good fit!

rebecca@deeprootedbliss.com

✨You can do hard things✨ **SOUND ON for the f

✨You can do hard things✨

**SOUND ON for the full message in case you need to hear this today**

I often hear my students say ‘but it’s hard.’ As if it feeling hard is a sign that they should stop.

I’ve come to believe in my personal experience that the moment I catch that thought in my head, it’s not a sign to stop…but to KEEP GOING.

It has become a message from the wider part of my being, telling me that I’m doing something important.

To hear more of this message, be sure to listen to The Deep Rooted Bliss Podcast Episode 23 - released today - Perfectionism Part 2: Overachieving & Burn Out

Link in bio. Or find on iTunes Spotify, or where you listen to your podcasts.

‘My bad hip’ ‘My bad ankle’ ‘My stomach

‘My bad hip’
‘My bad ankle’
‘My stomach is bad’…

How often do you hear yourself speak this way about aches, pains, injuries, and disease in your body?

I’ve certainly been there 🙋‍♀️

But what if those sensations were a form of communication from your body saying that it needs something - rest, recovery, healing, attention, love?

What if it were your child coming to you asking for help, asking for rest, attention, love…how would you respond then?

Learn a simple way to appreciate and honor your body even when it’s in pain by listening to last week’s episode on ✨The Deep Rooted Bliss Podcast, Episode 19: How to Appreciate Your Body (When You’re In Pain). ✨

Link in bio, or find it on iTunes, Spotify & more

Feeling grateful… I woke up yesterday feeling a

Feeling grateful…

I woke up yesterday feeling all tangled up…ever feel that way?

Since then I’ve gotten to a deep place of gratitude for all of my teachers. There are so many that I simply cannot name them all. But as I was journaling this morning it dawned on me how many tools I was utilizing from so many of them.

theyogimatt for so many words of wisdom, showing me a pathway towards deepening a relationship with myself, showing me that I can be a leader, insanely transforming my yoga practice….and so much more!

charlieknoles for giving me the enormous gift of empowering me to meditate on my own & finding my calling - teaching me how to teach it!

Brooke Castillo of The Life Coach School for being a healing voice in my ear for over a year, teaching me how to coach myself through self doubt and so much more.

corinne_crabtree for teaching me how to love myself and show it through self talk and my relationship with food.

Not to mention all the people, my husband, friends, family, clients, students, and even strangers who exchanged a quick chat…so many have passed through my life teaching me so many things!

Thank you ALL for being a teacher.

✨You never know what words or actions you have spoken to another person that they might treasure to this day. Keep on sharing your light and wisdom my friends, for you never know who is listening!
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I’ll never forget what my grandma told me when I

I’ll never forget what my grandma told me when I was young...

She told me about a conversation she had with my uncle’s new wife. She explained to my grandma that she was so grateful to have found him. She said she didn’t NEED him and knew she’d be okay if he weren’t there...but she WANTED him in her life.

I wasn’t so sure about the idea...

As a young teenager, I was fantasizing about a romantic future marriage, one where we couldn’t live without each other! Sounded so much better than what she shared.

Yet relationships and years passed by, and I was drawn to meditation and learning how to fulfill the needs I had been putting on others (and coming up empty).

Somehow it clicked that only I could give myself what I needed. I couldn’t demand it from my partner, when they never had the power to meet them in the first place).

Then Chris and I started dating...and tomorrow we’ll be married for 6 years! 😍

Now, both he and I fully understand and live what my grandma had shared with me years ago.

We don’t need each other. We each take care of fulfilling our own needs in our own way.

And because of that, we are FREE TO WANT each other.

We are free to be present with each other and want to be together.

While I truly have no desire to spend this life without him, I know that I could. But life sure is so much more special when I get to love him, laugh every freaking day, and treasure the simplest moments.

Hear the full story in my podcast Episode 18: 4 Ways to Deepen Your Relationship. Link in bio. Or find it on iTunes & Spotify.

🌲P.S. swipe all the way to the end to see a pic from our first summer together 😆🥰

4 Ways to Deepen Your Relationship… Sunday is m

4 Ways to Deepen Your Relationship...

Sunday is my 6th wedding anniversary! As a ritual, I love to reflect over what I’ve learned through the last year, so I decided to talk about it in today’s podcast episode!

In EPISODE 18(!!), I share how my journey with yoga, meditation, and mindset has allowed me to deepen my own relationship with MYSELF, and expanded my capacity for a deeper, more loving relationship with my husband, Chris.

👉The 1st way I share is my favorite: treasure the other person and don’t let yourself take them for granted. ✨

How easy is it to assume that they will always be there?

How easy is it to get caught up in your own stress and put off appreciating your partner until the weekend, or the next time you have a good day?

If we are always waiting to appreciate the people in our lives, we never will until it’s too late.

Instead I find it so valuable to learn how to appreciate them NOW.

Take a moment today to pause, take a breath, and seek one thing to appreciate about your partner (or friend, or family member, or yourself)

When you find something, stay there...why is it worth appreciating? What do you like about it?

How can you breathe it in, enjoy it, and receive it?

Listen to the full episode at the link in bio, on iTunes, or Spotify

How do you talk to your body? (Little practice bel

How do you talk to your body? (Little practice below👇)

How often do you tell your body that it’s not good enough? Strong enough? Thin enough? Flexible enough? Pain-free enough? Healthy enough?

How do you talk to your ailments, aches, and pains? Have you ever noticed how we tend to use the word ‘bad’? ‘I have a bad shoulder’, ‘I have a bad hip’

But think about that for a moment...if you have tightness or pain in your hip, it’s talking to you telling you that it’s in need of something (rest, healing, attention, release, etc).

Why do we tell our bodies they are bad for being in need? Would we say that about a friend in need?

Our brains are so practiced at this, it feels automatic. And it is - it’s a good thing our brains notice the things wrong or different or off in our bodies so that if there’s a potential danger we can address it...

But if we never practice looking for all the things our bodies do WELL, then all we’ll see is the pain, the weakness, the less-ness that we perceive...

👉Here’s a little practice I like to do to help me see the good things, appreciate my body, and talk to it with more kindness:

🌷What if today you challenged yourself to come up with 5 things that your body has allowed you to do this week?
🌷What has it done that helped you?
🌷What has it done that you might’ve taken for granted?
🌷Let’s brainstorm together...
SHARE 1 thing in the comments below (read it before you post it and notice if there is still a negative perspective, if so challenge yourself to reword it in a positive light).

Don’t be afraid to cover the most basic things too!

✨MONDAY MOTIVATION GUIDE… Whether you’re fe

✨MONDAY MOTIVATION GUIDE...

Whether you’re feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, or worried, I’ve got your back…

I’ve listed a few episodes from my podcast that speaks to what you might be facing as you enter into another week...it just might give you the pep talk you need to hear today. 💛

Are you feeling super overwhelmed right now?
👉Check out Episode 7: Moving Through Overwhelm

Are you feeling like your mind is racing, you’re exhausted, and you just NEED. A. BREAK.
👉Check out Episode 4: How to Give Your Mind a Break

Are you looking to learn a simple mindfulness meditation technique to try on your own?
👉Check out Episode 10: Step-by-step Guide to a Mindfulness Meditation Practice

All these episodes are from my podcast: The Deep Rooted Bliss Podcast, available on iTunes, Spotify, and more

Are you working on building a new habit, maintaini

Are you working on building a new habit, maintaining a habit, or working towards a goal?

Have you ever missed a day and felt like you lost all of your progress, or as if you now have to start all over again?

Or do you ever find yourself stuck in self doubt, only seeing all of your mistakes?

I’ve been there...

More times than I can count.

And because I was so tired of feeling defeated, stuck, and exhausted over and over again I read books, listened to podcasts, joined trainings and workshops to try to find the answer.

In today’s podcast episode I share with you 4 things to keep in mind when maintaining habits and how one of the greatest tools to feel better, move forward, and ENJOY the journey is to CELEBRATE every tiny win.

Take a listen to Episode 16: ‘Maintaining Habits By Celebrating Everything’ today on iTunes, Spotify, or link in bio.

✨Share with a friend who needs to hear this!

Calling all local yogis!! YOGA AT WALKER ROAD VI

Calling all local yogis!!

YOGA AT WALKER ROAD VINEYARD
Woodbury, CT
Saturday May 22nd 11am-12pm
$25...with a glass of wine included to follow!!

Join me for an outdoor yoga practice, and bring snacks if you’d like to enjoy with your glass of wine (your choice of white, red, or rose!) after a luxurious savasana on the lovely property.

Preregistration at the link in bio!

Can’t wait to practice with you and give you a big cheers afterwards!

Did you know o have a podcast?? Episode 15 is av

Did you know o have a podcast??

Episode 15 is available today!!

Go check it out 😁 link in bio.

Know someone else who struggles with self-judgement and self-doubt? Send this episode to them!!

...tune into my new podcast episode available today on iTunes, Spotify, and more!

Ever felt stuck in a loop of self-judgement, self-

Ever felt stuck in a loop of self-judgement, self-doubt, and just overall negative self talk?

I certainly know what that feels like.

For a long time, most of this kind of talk filled my entire day (a lot of time without me really even realizing it).

Some of my deepest work over the last year has been observing, understanding, and unraveling this pattern.

What’s the antidote?

Self-compassion.

At first I reacted to my newly discovered self-judgement NOT with compassion and instead in the only way I knew how...by judging it! (Have you ever been there??)

Then I noticed that CURIOSITY is the bridge from judgement to compassion.

Listen to the whole story with a step-by-step breakdown of how you can start practicing self-compassion to help you feel better and move forward...

...tune into my new podcast episode available today on iTunes, Spotify, and more!

“Forgive yourself for not being at peace. The

“Forgive yourself for not being at peace.

The moment you completely accept your non-peace, your non-peace is transmuted into peace.

Anything you accept fully will get you there, will take you into peace.

This is the miracle of

S U R R E N D E R”

~ Eckhart Tolle

📷This lovely light and beautiful work of art was captured by micheleiljaziphotography ✨

Living as your FUTURE self….have you ever tried

Living as your FUTURE self....have you ever tried it?

Do you set goals? If so, you’ll want to keep reading 👇

When we set goals, most of us are doing so because we want to FEEL a certain way when we get there.

I’ve been working with a goal of running regularly. Why? Because of the feeling of strength, freedom, and liberation I saw in lifelong runners. I wanted that for myself. I also wanted to feel proud of myself for overcoming the self doubt and difficulty I felt around running in the past.

What about other goals?

With a yoga goal like finally doing that press handstand, you might imagine you’ll feel strong and empowered, proud.

If it’s an education goal, you might imagine you’ll feel like an expert, knowledgeable, capable, proud.

If it’s a goal around your house like cleaning out closets, you might imagine your home will feel so much more peaceful, open, and calming.

These are all FEELINGS we’re after.

✨Why is this not only relevant but SO IMPORTANT to recognize? ✨

Because in order to do the steps necessary to reach this goal, we must identify what feelings we’re seeking and generate them AHEAD of time, with every step taken towards it.

If we don’t, then the contrasting feelings we’re experiencing may hold us back.

If I keep the old feelings of heaviness, stiffness, self doubt, and ridicule in my head every time I run, I’ll never become a runner. And I most certainly will never feel freedom in my body.

But if I see how I can connect to the feeling of freedom, strength, and liberation each time I lace my running shoes, then I’ll not only keep going, I’ll be LIVING AS MY FUTURE SELF. And I’ll get to not just feel that way ‘one day’, but now, in the present moment.

How can you start to generate the feelings you’re after TODAY?

👉Want to hear more? Last week’s podcast episode 12 and episode 13 dropping this Friday go into WAY more detail so be sure to take a listen! Link in bio!

Yesterday I went for an early morning run and drov

Yesterday I went for an early morning run and drove home feeling cold, hungry, so excited for a cup of coffee and began driving the half hour home wishing I could just teleport there...

Then I got stuck behind a truck that was going soooo slow. At first I was frustrated, wishing I went home another way that is much more pass-friendly.

My ride home could have been agonizing filled with longing and frustration, and I could’ve gotten home running to the kitchen to scarf down some food after 30 min of thinking about it.

But I didn’t.

Instead I decided to enjoy the ride. And I’m so grateful I did!

There was a thick fog that coated my run and as I drove home it was burning off...

I drove through clouds of bright white fog with tree branches etched into it like a painting.

Every now and then the fog broke and I witnessed gleaming blue skies with sunlight streaming onto the colorful, glistening little puffs of tree buds in the wet trees.

It was dazzling.

And itwas seriously one of the most breath taking mornings...that one moment of spring that comes and goes in the blink of an eye...

...and one I would have missed entirely if I only focused on how uncomfortable I felt driving slower than I wanted.

Instead I got to experience beauty that will stay with me always as a wonderful memory.

Take a moment today, no matter how frustrated or stressed out you might be, to notice the details around you...the aroma, the sounds, the colors...you never know what beauty might be there waiting for you to enjoy.
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