Wendy E. Crane, LMFT
Fall in Love with Yourself In the past 7 years since my divorce, I have spent a lot of time with myself. I experimented with online dating and had a couple of significant long-term relationships. Yet, I continued to struggle with what felt like unfinished business from my past relationship patterns. As a marriage and … Read more
Mindfulness Meditation: Trust There are so many ways to meditate. Using quotes or excerpts from inspirational books is a great way to begin your meditation time. For today, I would like to share a meditation with you from a popular teacher on the concept of mindfulness: Jon Kabat Zinn. This excerpt comes from his book: … Read more
Find Your Peace with Yoga Video Here is the first video I ever made! When I created Sol Flower Wellness, my vision was to bring yoga and meditation tools to you in a way that you could integrate them into your daily life. This is an all around yoga sequence comprised of basic hatha yoga … Read more
Bedtime Yoga for Restful Sleep Video Yoga can be a wonderful way to complete your day and wind down for a restful night of sleep. Sleep is such an integral part of health and well-being and allows our bodies and minds to recover, repair, and integrate our day-to-day experiences in a holistic way. Making sure … Read more
Heart-Centered Meditation This video is one that I created to accompany the blog outlining 5 Steps to Hope and Healing after the shootings at Pulse Night Club in Orlando. It provides a great idea for practicing a heart-centered meditation with a focus on the word “LOVE” as your mantra. This meditation helps to open up … Read more
Morning Yoga Sun Salutations Video Wake up and start your day with Yoga! The video below is a great introduction to a basic and common yoga series called “Sun Salutations.” This series of poses is used frequently in many yoga classes as a way to wake up and warm up the body. I recommend that … Read more
“I AM” Mantra Meditation When used together, the words, “I AM,” form a very ancient and powerful phrase. “I AM THAT I AM,” is used in the Bible to define the creative and all encompassing force of the Universe that many of us call “God.” We may also refer to this force as “Creator,” “Light,” … Read more
Is Your Life Sustainable? “It is not exactly the rightness of a person or thing or its wrongness that causes the theft of our [true Self], it is the cost of these things to us. It is what costs us in time, energy, observation, attention, hovering, prompting, instructing, teaching, training. These motions of psyche are … Read more
5 Tools to Help Build Hope and Healing After Pulse When I got in the car last Sunday morning, I heard Johnny Magic on XL106.7 speaking about a shooting that had occurred at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando overnight. I do not usually listen to much news, but this seemed way beyond a typical news … Read more
For many years as a younger woman, I struggled with body image distortion, obsessive dieting, and self-criticism.