Parenting & Life Wisdom and the 6 Benefits of Discomfort
God speaks to us through people, songs, billboards and even nature. Discover the parenting and life wisdom Neissa received through nature.
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- Mar 8
- 2 min
Do This 20 Minutes a Day and Feel Less Stress, Decrease Your Cortisol and Increase Your Creativity
Wherever you are, signs of spring are everywhere! In Austin, the Mountain-Laurel bush is filling the air with the scent of grape Pixy...
- Feb 28
- 2 min
What We're Adding & Removing During Lent
Last Wednesday was Ash Wednesday, kicking off the season of Lent. Lent marks longer days, the coming of spring, a season of growth and...
- Feb 22
- 3 min
Create Your Compelling Future
Did you know by mid February (now), most people's New Year's resolutions are a thing of the past?! I get it! So much life transpires in...
- Feb 8
- 2 min
Every Ending is a New Beginning
While walking on the beach during our Renew Year Retreat in San Diego, we were all struck by a man working ceaselessly on a beach...
- Jan 30
- 2 min
Why We Need to Give and Receive High Fives
Have you ever wondered about the power and significance of a high five? Check out these two studies: Researchers at Berkeley and Yale did...
- Jan 6
- 2 min
It's the First Week of January so Right Now, Focus on These 5 Things
Point to Ponder: Are you feeling overwhelmed with the start of the year..and already feel like you're behind? OHHHH....MYYYY....GOODNESSS...
- Nov 3, 2022
- 2 min
Master Your Mind: Stop Comparing and Focus Only on What You've Been Given
Point to Ponder: How often compare your talents, your life, your body, your career, your 'everything' to others? We've all heard the...
- Oct 10, 2022
- 2 min
Mastering Your Mind: Celebrate Success! Appreciate & Acknowledge
Point to Ponder: How often do you appreciate, acknowledge and celebrate your successes (big or small) as well as the successes of others?...
- Oct 3, 2022
- 3 min
Mastering Your Mind: Choosing Challenge & Discomfort
Point to Ponder: How often do you put yourself in challenging and uncomfortable situations? “Did you know over these 2.5 millions years,...
- Sep 17, 2022
- 3 min
Mastering Your Mind: The Study of Psychoneuroimmunology and How Fear Negatively Impacts Your Health
Point to Ponder: When experiencing fear, what do you do? Have you ever heard of psychoneuroimmunology? I can barely say it so let’s just...
- May 23, 2022
- 3 min
How Our Phone Habits Are Affecting Our Sleep & What We Can Do About It
"Many measures of adolescent mental health began to deteriorate sometime around 2009. It is true of the number of U.S. high-school...
- May 17, 2022
- 2 min
Get More out of Your Day by Removing These Annoying Disruptions
"The people sitting around you in the Googleplex control more than 50% of all the notifications on all the phones in the whole world. We...
- May 9, 2022
- 3 min
Life Doesn't Come with a Manual, It Comes with a Mom
Sometimes feel as though Mother Nature provides the how-to manual for life. From practicing patience, enduring difficult times,...
- Apr 30, 2022
- 4 min
If We Want to do Things Well, We Have to be Able to Focus
Somewhere along the way, and since the invention of the Smartphone, we’ve become brainwashed to think we must be available 24/7 and...
- Apr 23, 2022
- 3 min
I Wanted to Crush it with a Baseball Bat and Run Over it with my Car
Did you know the average American touches his/her phone 2,617 times per 24 hours? But first (and along those lines), last fall I began...
- Apr 13, 2022
- 1 min
At Home Class Preview
Ever wonder what goes on in our At Home classes with founder Neissa Springmann? Check out the video and join her live each week or take...
- Apr 5, 2022
- 2 min
Look All Around! Strength is on Display
Gardening has become my hobby. I do not have a green thumb, as plenty of what I plant dies, but I get extreme joy in planting something...
- Mar 28, 2022
- 2 min
A Handful of Weeds or Handpicked Spring Bouquet?
"Fill your minds with beauty and truth. Meditate on whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely,...
- Mar 22, 2022
- 1 min
The Season of Surprise
"Spring is nature's way of saying 'Let's party!'" - Robin Williams I don't think I've ever heard anyone say they don't like spring or...
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