Rubini Wellness — Love
What Healing Ourselves Means
Posted by Joanna Rubini on
How to Heal: What does that even mean? Healing from emotional pain, from physical pain, from carrying excess body weight, from denying yourself proper nutrition, from over reacting to little things, from trauma. Healing can happen once we allow ourselves complete ownership of our feelings. They can be embarrassing feelings or shameful feelings or dirty secret feelings that you think should never see the light of day. Except all those feelings stay within us if we don't let them out.START: If you want to heal, intend to feel better. Intend to see yourself and your life differently. Next, speak or write...
- Tags: Healing, Love, Self Acceptance, Self Love
Second Toes
Posted by Joanna Rubini on

For today, just the 2nd toe.This toe is also known as index toe or pointer toe. When it hurts (when anything in our bodies hurts!) it means something is imbalanced. How do we fix this imbalance? My toe randomly hurts which is frustrating and uncomfortable, so most of us rail against our suddenly painful body part. It hurts to walk. We are innocent in that we did nothing physical to cause the pain. So we get po'd at our toe and set into self pity and loss of hope. What happens? BOTH second toes now hurt. Consulting Bach Flower body...
Losing a Loved One
Posted by Joanna Rubini on

A note on grief. It’s a feeling. You cry. Let it out. Then explore why exactly you are experiencing grief. In my case, my mom has sustained a terrible car accident. Her health wasn’t the greatest to begin with so smashing herself into another car is a blow that feels nearly insurmountable. Her three children (including me) spent the week of thanksgiving in vigil, visiting the hospital, holding her hand, trying to get a response from her. My greatest grief, when I explore my sadness, is that I ever said an unkind word to her. I can’t believe I ever...
Shoulder Wellness
Posted by Joanna Rubini on

Shoulder pain? In case you don't know my foundational beliefs: all body pain is caused by our feelings getting stuck in us. Feelings that we are either ashamed of or judge as bad or undesirable, and repress; or beliefs that being a certain way in the world serves us, so we we hold on to these feelings and beliefs. On the subject of shoulder pain, our shoulders are what we use to deal with the weight of the world. It is a a figure of speech that our body uses to show us our thoughts, feelings, beliefs. If you have...