Jennifer Ashton > Quotes

“Walking doesn’t just make you happy—it can also help fight depression, anxiety, and stress. According to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, researchers have found that taking a ten-minute walk can reduce feelings of depression, fatigue, and anger and suppress anxiety as effectively as a forty-five-minute workout. The effects of a short, brisk walk don’t just go away once we get back to the office or our homes—scientists say the effects of walking on mood can last for hours after a single jaunt.”
― Jennifer Ashton, The Self-Care Solution: A Year of Becoming Happier, Healthier, and Fitter--One Month at a Time

“Insight Timer, which”
― Jennifer Ashton, The Self-Care Solution: A Year of Becoming Happier, Healthier, and Fitter--One Month at a Time

“they came, they lived, they loved, and they accepted, and the timing of their passing was perfectly designed.”
― Jennifer Ashton, Life After Suicide: Finding Courage, Comfort & Community After Unthinkable Loss

“The question of what kind of a thing a text or poem is now becomes a function neither of what the poet might have intended by its words nor of what the conventions of grammar and meaning might seem to require of them, but rather of the reader’s irreducibly subjective experience in her encounter with those words.”
― Jennifer Ashton, The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry since 1945

“You may even want to experiment first with a meditation app like Headspace, Buddhify, or Calm, all of which can”
― Jennifer Ashton, The Self-Care Solution: A Year of Becoming Happier, Healthier, and Fitter--One Month at a Time