Forward Momentum

Creative tips, tools, and techniques to help you manage the stressors of life and keep you moving forward.

Dahlia Rifkin Dahlia Rifkin

Video: Positive Affirmations for your Mind and Body

In this video, I demonstrate positive affirmations with movement. An affirmation is a positive statement that helps us feel better about ourselves, clarify goals, overcome negative self-talk, and empowers us to make changes. When we add movements to the affirmations, we connect the mind and body, making the affirmations more powerful, which helps shift our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Practice these affirmations and then create your own! Encourage your kids and partners to give it a try as well.

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Dahlia Rifkin Dahlia Rifkin

New Year’s Resolutions: Meaningful or Pointless?

New Years is a time for hope, excitement, change, reflection, and of course resolutions. Maybe we want to lose weight, eat healthier, exercise, quit smoking, be more honest, patient, or kind, find success in our careers and so on. It is easy to get wrapped up in the excitement of what change could look like without a clear plan of how to get there. 80% of these resolutions fail because even though we think we want change, we might not be ready to take the action needed.

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