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As a professional dietitian and meditation instructor, my life’s work is supporting individuals and groups to find a sense of home within themselves.

Heartbreak A poem by Gaby SimonsSometimes, heartbreak masks itself as a million thoughts And contemplations of action- R...
10/07/2026

Heartbreak
A poem by Gaby Simons

Sometimes, heartbreak masks itself as a million thoughts
And contemplations of action-
Round and round, like a merry go-round
Keeping your from yourself.

But when you slow down,
You feel the ache right in the center,
(It’s beautiful, even, in its sadness)
asking you just to be with it,
breathe with it-

Not try to fix it,
solve it
even Resolve it

It’s like a child who just wants his mommy
to swoop him up and hold him till
his tears run out and his lips curl up
into a smile.
And he can’t help but let out a giggle for just feeling loved

So, too, your heart wants YOU.
Your presence.
Your witnessing.
For however long it takes.

10/06/2026

You have things you have to do and want to do but you are scrolling on social and feeling anxious. The thoughts are going off like fireworks 🧨

This happens to the best of us.

Darling - you are ok. I am here to support you and share a 5 minute grounding exercise. Ready? Everything is a suggestion.

💕Why don’t you shut off your phone for 5 minutes. Sit down and make yourself comfortable.

💕Then set a five minute timer.

💕Close your eyes or gaze at the floor two feet ahead and gently focus your attention on the points of your body touching the ground or chair.

💕Start to sense the feeling of your body touching the chair or ground.

💕Notice how sensing your body is different from thinking about your body touching the chair or ground.

💕Stay in sensing my love.

💕Bring your attention back to the sensations of the ground or chair touching your body, over and over again. It’s ok that your attention wonders. It will.

💕Come back again and again to sensing your body. Well done.

💕When five minutes is up, take a journal or piece of paper and write down the 3 things that are most important for you to do today. ✏️

🔥 Now go get started on the first one.

You are ok.

Love
Gaby

10/04/2026

For 5 years I’ve been a culinary dietitian, supporting people from all walks of life making healthy cooking doable.

Im a busy mom and you are too. It’s overwhelming to think about eating anything but your kids leftovers off their tray.

But you know your body and mind deserve better.

Even if cooking is not your thing, I’ve got you. We will figure out a way to take care of you- that works in your schedule.

Certified as an intuitive eating counselor and trained in meditation, we can absolutely also address the way stress and other emotions impact your eating.

I know how tempting it is to go alone without help. But I’m here to make you feel supported in positive change. Reach out to me with questions or book in the link in bio. 💕

Sometimes we just need to sit in the suck. To not be told it’s all ok. To not be given advice on how to make it better. ...
10/03/2026

Sometimes we just need to sit in the suck. To not be told it’s all ok. To not be given advice on how to make it better.

Sometimes we need to sit in the suck, and not be afraid people will think we’re weak, or joyless, or depressing.

If you’re following me and resonating it’s because you’ve been through hard stuff. Or you’re going through hard stuff now. If you haven’t been through hard it would not appeal to you to sit with it. Why not just be happy and good and positive?

🌀 Just cuz it’s hard, and we show it and share it, does that mean we are weak? Hell no.
🌀 Does it mean we have no joy? Hell no.
🌀 Does that mean we’re broken? Hell no.

It just means we’re tired of pretending we’re “fine”. Because nothing sucks out the joy and energy like pretending. 😝

Here, we get real. AND we can have a hell of a lotta fun 🤩 doing it.

Share this message with someone who needs to be seen and know they’re not alone.

There are still a few spots left in Mindfulness Foundations to Take the Edge Off. link in bio.

09/30/2026

Pleasure is powerful. The pleasure of food allowed our ancestors to survive because the pleasure response helped them remember where the food was. Delicious, pleasurable food IS the link between joy and health.

Women, let’s not forget that pleasure and joy are healthy and essential to our vitality.

Bring mindfulness to your felt experience of resistance- resisting something you want- versus truly enjoying it. What’s it like to resist? What is like to enjoy? Where does that leave you vis a vis your food cravings, your experience of your body?

It is healthy to enjoy food!

What we practice gets stronger. This is a gym for self-kindness. Join my online series, Mindfulness Foundations to Take ...
09/24/2026

What we practice gets stronger. This is a gym for self-kindness. Join my online series, Mindfulness Foundations to Take the Edge Off. Fridays, October 9th - November 6th at 7:30 AM and start building practices that nurture your kind inner voice. Donation-based, you’ll be invited to give what you feel moved to give at the end of the sessions and series. Link in bio for more details and to get tickets.

Darlings. We will never have it all figured out. We will not have 100% certainty. Maybe you feel something in your life ...
09/24/2026

Darlings. We will never have it all figured out. We will not have 100% certainty.

Maybe you feel something in your life is on the precipice of change, but confronting what needs to change is scary.

How do we ride the waves of uncertainty and live the questions, until we finally one day live ourselves into the next set of answers?

There are many strategies here including therapy, coaching, journaling, talking with friends.

Here is one tool to use between those activities, when you are alone, when all you have is you and yourself: metta.

The Buddha taught a lovely antidote to fear, and a way to elegantly be here with all the messiness. Metta (loving kindness meditation).

If you are feeling the fear of the unknown, in the middle of the night, first thing in the morning or anytime, you may try repeating this phrases:

May my heart be held in loving kindness.
May I hold my struggles with ease.

And know, you are never alone in this.

Can I share a secret? I was thinking about this social media post during my meditation this morning! Yep. My mind was pl...
09/23/2026

Can I share a secret?

I was thinking about this social media post during my meditation this morning!

Yep. My mind was planning.

That’s the story of our mind. It plans. It thinks. It worries.

But having a meditation practice is STILL beneficial even if you think you suck at it! And I’ll tell ya why.

When you sit still and recognize thoughts and feel feelings and do nothing to act on them, something amazing happens.

You realize you are not your thoughts, you are not your emotions.

And what is that? It’s FREEDOM! It’s what the Buddha called being unidentified.

Like a tree, you let the winds of thought and emotion blow your branches, sway you, lean on you. You grow stronger and wiser and sturdier.

Try meditation. You don’t need a still mind to reap the benefits, just the intention to come back to NOW over and over again.

I run a free monthly meditation group in Melrose MA. Contact me to join! Virtual series coming soon.

Food is PLEASURE. That is not a problem, that is beautiful! What are we here for if not to enjoy this wild and crazy lif...
09/19/2026

Food is PLEASURE. That is not a problem, that is beautiful!

What are we here for if not to enjoy this wild and crazy life?

Mindful nourishment is a silent eating experience with light direction of where to place attention.

Would you believe how much pleasure the mind and body derive from food when we allow ourselves to slow down and taste it?

The shadow side can arise too- I shouldn’t take so my pleasure in food. I always eat too much. I’m afraid I’ll gain weight. I feel uncomfortable being so ‘in my body’.

All of this will be explored in our upcoming Home Inside Virtual Meditation Community.

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