The Spark Pack with Dr. Angela Gala

Sexual health is essential for a women's overall sense of self and wellbeing, but it's important to note that there is no standard to meet for sexual activity and desire. Let's explore the relationship between menopause and sexual desire. Here are some tips!

Loving-kindness refers to tender and benevolent affection. It is the wish that all beings (including you) may be happy, and those good things may come their way. Loving-kindness meditation teaches us to be better friends with ourselves. It is a way to increase compassion. Loving-kindness meditation is a form of single-focus meditation. Just as the breath is used as a focal point in the sitting med...

We all have an inner critic. It is that voice inside our head that berates us and beats us down when we make a mistake or fail in some way (e.g., “You are a failure,” “You can’t do anything right,” “You are a loser”). This inner critic is thought to be there to help us, though more often than not, these words do more harm than good, leading us to self-doubt and, in some cases, self-hatred. Thankfu...

Getting ready for what comes next is an excellent decision, and it does not matter at what age you begin. Here are some contributions to this area! 

Every woman has a story about her experience with menopause. Whether or not it is hot flashes, weight gain, moodiness, or simply the life stage of being 50+, if you are a woman over 40, chances are you have experienced some form of this phenomenon in your lifetime.  In today's episode, we will take an in-depth look at what happens when women go through menopause and how to cope with the chang...

Created by Hugo Alberts (Ph. D.). This meditation is about self-acceptance . Self-acceptance means accepting ourselves for who we are at this very moment. It means relating to ourselves the same way we would relate to someone for whom we love and care deeply. When we accept ourselves, we permit ourselves to be human, fail, make mistakes, and learn and grow. We accept our weaknesses instead of feel...

Created by Hugo Alberts (Ph. D.) and Lucinda Poole (PsyD). In this mindful awareness practice, you will visualize a wheel; and this wheel has a central hub, an outer rim, and four quadrants in between. In this metaphor of how the mind is structured, the hub represents our experience of awareness. The quadrants represent anything we can be aware of, including sensory awareness (i.e., what we see, h...

Menopause is a medical term that was used to describe the time when a woman stops menstruating. The word's etymology can be traced back to Ancient Greece, meaning "to stop bleeding." In the 1800s, doctors started using the term as an analogy for what happens in women's bodies during menopause