A written collection for resilience, clarity, and living fully.
Because how you think shapes how you live.
The Shift is a refreshing, honest, and uplifting collection of short writings. Through short memoir-style stories, humor, and real-life insight, it helps you shift how you see your day, your challenges, and your potential. A radically different approach to staying motivated, grounded, and emotionally strong. All words written by Jessica Ackerman, MSCCC-SLP, RYT; Speech-Language Pathologist, Yoga Teacher.
Shift your mindset. Strengthen your spirit. Live with power and clarity. Start The Shift today.
Anniversary.
365 days into this pandemic, and many additional pivots later, most just as abrupt and unannounced and unpredictable as this anniversary moment... the vastness of this full human experience is something too large to even reflect upon in words on this page.
Deeply feeling the persistent suffering in the world, I offer these thoughts, practices, and succinct directives as an invitation to turn toward healing and connection...
A Wave in the Ocean
Right now, we are in a global and personal crisis, and we are being asked to hold many big emotions and sensations in the one container of our being. Joy with sorrow. Trust with fear. Boredom with anxiety. Patience with uncertainty. And it is coming up as a general feeling of stress. A pressing on our system. And as a system, we are really one organism, all of us, connected. And we cannot really compartmentalize; because that "stress" reaches beyond the bounds of our individual selves. Together, the nature of our experience is vast and diverse, fragile and fleeting.
Epic habits to make your routine flow.