
LuAnn C. Collins, Ph.D.


Articles & Resources

Sustenance
Edible Communities
Edible Communities celebrates local food, season by season, community by community. With a network of more than 90 independently-owned, locally-focused magazines and websites across the U.S. and Canada, they are the largest media organization devoted to telling the stories and sustaining the efforts of the farmers, chefs, food artisans, fishers, vintners and home cooks who feed us.
Daily Om
DailyOM features a universal approach to holistic living for the mind, body, and spirit and supports people who want to live a conscious lifestyle.
DailyOM was founded in 2004 by Madisyn Taylor and Scott Blum, and was born out of their desire to bring the world together by offering messages of consciousness and awareness to people of all walks of life.
Women Food & Agriculture Network
WFAN exists so that women can give each other the information, connections, and encouragement they need to be effective practitioners and supporters of sustainable agriculture and healthy localized food systems.
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David Attenborough


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Monthly Focus
April
Believing "Your" Possible
What Are You Thinking?
Practice:
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Mindfulness: Witness your beautiful mind. Stop. Close your eyes. What are you thinking? Specifically, when you consider "your" possibility, what are you thinking about it?
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Thought download: Write down all your thoughts each morning about "your" possibility. What are you thinking?
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Reframe challenges as opportunities to learn, develop a new skill, have an adventure. Failure only happens when you stop trying.
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7 reasons why, then 7 on those 7. Consider or remember why you want this “possibility.” List 7 reasons. Then for each of those 7, list 7. Then for each of those 49, list 7.
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Rewind the critic: we have the critic in our heads whispering words of nonsense. Rewind that voice and stop the tape. As for outside critics, consider the source.
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Learn from others, their failures and successes: this is a life hack that is completely underutilized.
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3 strikes does NOT mean you’re out: mastery takes time, don’t judge too quickly, lower your expectations, never give up.
Resources:
Renaissance: What is a growth Mindset
Harvard: What a Growth mindset actually means
Actions:
Journal
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Write a letter to your younger self (any age but at least 10 years younger) and include three things you love about that younger version of yourself. Are those still things you love about yourself now?
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Write a letter to yourself as your older self in 10 years, 20 years, 30 years. What are 3 things each of those older selves loves about the you of today? Are those things you love about yourself now?
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List your three biggest insecurities and then write about them from the perspective of someone who finds them beautiful, endearing, quirky, or necessary for creating your possibility.
Teach Children to Develop a Growth Mindset
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