The Anatomy of Kindness: The Unexpected Benefits to YOU When You are Kind

10 Unexpected Benefits You Receive when You Choose to be Kind to Someone Else We are inspired this week by news from The Anatomy of Kindness Project in the UK. It turns out that empathy, care, helping, thoughtfulness, and compassion are good for both the person who receives kindness AND the person who offers kindness. In the podcast and article, the researchers talk about 10 unexpected benefits of kindness people focused on when they had offered kindness to another.

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Inspirited Conversations: Choosing How we Meet New People

Welcome to our Inspirited Conversations series in which we are engaging all of our inspirited senses in the experience of meeting, talking, and listening to people. This week, we are thinking about what happens when you go to a new school, new job, new class, new congregation, new group of people… We Get To Choose How We Experience Meeting New People! This is a topic that can trigger feelings of anxiety, especially when we’ve had icky interactions with new people in the past (and who hasn’t?) When we are in a new situation, away from home for the first time, or moving to a new area, meeting new people can be especially difficult. Everyone can feel a little unsure, nervous, anxious, or just simply excited and scared as the same time. Inspirited Living’s Founder, Lynne Bryan Phipps’ compassionate thoughts for starting a new school are here: The good news is [...]

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Nourishing Ourselves and Harvesting the Richness of Nature

We are uplifted this week by stories about how humans nourish, grow, and nurture beautiful, interconnected lives from the ground up. In Rhode Island, The Compass School Farm, which Inspirited Living’s Lynne Bryan Phipps founded, is a place where K-8 students grow up connected to nature, to their own senses, and to an ecologically creative community. What are you growing and nourishing? Join Inspirited Living’s Community and let us know!

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Tending to Our Inner Light In a Season of Change

We are inspired this week by stories about how communities can thrive when we choose to reconnect with ourselves and all living things. Inspirited Living favorite, Lissa Rankin’s marvelous podcast on finding and tending to our inner light carries such a powerful message of support and resilience, we listen again and again. What comforts you and supports your inner light?

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Choosing How we Experience Change: 6 Ways to Manage Back to School Stress from an Inspirited Perspective

At Inspirited Living, we’ve noticed that change is in the air! The light is changing …days are shorter, and society is shifting from the lazy hazy days of summer to the busyness of preparing; making ready for back to school. These changes can mean stress for so many of us, especially if new environments, new people, and new experiences have been difficult to navigate in the past. Has anyone ever said that it’s possible to choose how we approach change? We actually have an opportunity to choose how we experience new things, new places, new schools, new people. The question is: how can we enjoy the changes, manage our back-to-school stress, and make healthy inspirited choices? Lynne Bryan Phipps, Inspirited Living’s founder has some life advice that helps students of all ages to navigate the changes that starting a new school can bring. 1. Tune-In and Shift Perspective In her [...]

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