Dr. Natasha Sharma

You really can tell a person smiling from their eyes. Grateful to have enjoyed a short getaway to @bluemtnvillage this past weekend. It was incredible to eat on a patio again, and soak up the sunshine. Mostly, I appreciated the simplicity of a change of scenery, smells, sights and sounds.

Cover - "Why Don't You Do Right" 'Evening! I'm posting this to provide a bit of entertainment while we're all still stuck at home. Originally posted this to IGTV on Feb. 14.. I've been working up the nerve to post some of my singing. Be gentle - it's just me and my mic - no fancy toys or auto-tuning. :) Happy Sunday! #cover #music #singer #singing #musician #love #song #coversong #songcover

I'm all for the simple pleasures in life, but I'd really like some effing non-simple pleasures these days! Anyone else? This photo was taken at the last major social event I went to. A wedding at @gladstonehotel exactly 1 year ago. Such a fun night, that ended in a tipsy uber ride home at 3 am. And yes - I'm in the Men's room here. When you gotta go, you gotta go On the topic of going, it’s easy to go forward and upwards in life, but much harder psychologically to fall bac...kwards in your lifestyle ... or at least feel like you have, which so many can probably relate to. Our complex pleasures aren't gone; they're just on hold. A beautiful piece I read by Tobias Stone said it best so I’ll just let him say it again: "Our senses are starved. They lie dormant, waiting for the reopening. Once this is really over, whenever that is, they will awake like bears from a long hibernation, stiff, dry, heavy, and will crawl out into the light, hungry. After shaking off the darkness, after some nourishment and reorientation, our senses like a bear will tower up and roar. There will come a time when all we want to do is eat, drink, laugh, hug, scream, sing, run, dance, and crash into each other, love like friends, love like lovers, and love like strangers."

Don’t take me back to these incredible days of 2019.... take me forward! To the day I can get on a plane again and feed my sensory starved wandering soul! I know what to say to myself: You can rush forward in time as much as you want to because you’ll miss out on the lessons right now is gifting you with. It is called the present . It’s healthy to look forward though and be optimistic. We’ll all be travelling soon enough, this time savouring the new sensations to the last drop, never again complaining about long airport lines, or cramped spaces on a plane. We’ll just be so grateful to be there at all.

Self-Care Giveaway! @savonmignon and my company @thekindnessjournal have partnered up to bring you this very special giveaway, just in time for Valentine's Day! . Because the most important relationship in your life is the one you have with yourself. Enter for your chance to win:... A Gift Box from @savonmignon & 1 Kindness Journal from @thekindnessjournal (physical copy). Here’s how to enter: 1. Follow the accounts below! @savonmignon @thekindnessjournal @dr_natashasharma 2. Like this picture! 3. Tag tag tag! Tag your friends in the comments. 1 tag per comment and each tag = 1 entry! 4. Share this post to your story for 3 extra entries! Don’t forget to tag us! (Private accounts please send a screenshot via DM). Giveaway Opens Feb 7th @ 12 pm (now!) Giveaway Closes Feb 13th @ 12 pm! Winner announced Feb 14th @ 12 pm! Giveaway open to Canadian Residents only . Shipping's on us! All times EST. This giveaway is in no way affiliated, sponsored or endorsed by instagram. Good Luck!!

Atlanta Georgia are you in the house, everybody are you in the house?! On the air live tomorrow morning to a worldwide audience with @awakenatlanta1 @uimedianetwork . We'll be talking about how to create a positive mindset, and manage our relationships at a time when we see either too much, or too little, of our loved ones. The big paradox. This is a call-in show (which I love doing)!! If you want to talk to us or ask a question LIVE on the air between 9:50 and 10:30 EST, ...the number to call in is +1-678-495-4345. USA connection rates may apply. The link to view the show live is in my stories and bio. Hope to see you there. And happy Monday!

Zoom zoom - Just recording another podcast here! I've been invited onto soooo many incredible podcasts over the past couple of years, and have also been fortunate to have established such warm and longstanding relationships with mainstream media, where I can tell stories, inspire, and reach people on a broader level. I have toyed with the idea of starting my own podcast for almost a year - a space where I can fully create and customize the content - and now I finally have ...the time to do it! Those who are familiar with me know that my focus and expertise is positive psychology and how we can apply it to our everyday lives (relationships, selves, in business/work, to parenting, etc.) to take our lives from ordinary to extraordinary. So.... Should I start a podcast? What say you? And what would you like to see me cover in it? Some ideas: Positive Psychology, Inner Wisdom, & Reaching your higher-level self? Relationships? (Romantic, platonic, with children, with in-laws you’d rather not have??) How to control our mind and moods? Tips for starting and growing a business? How to pitch to and get booked on TV/Radio? Other?? Pretty please comment with your thoughts below and what you would like to see more of. I'm open-minded and hope to hear from you!

It's Friday night and the weekend's here, I need to unwind, where's the party..... Mr. DJ! Oh who am I kidding. Happy Friday! #tbt

Snowfalls are a little bit of magic! We don’t have to look hard to find it (though in this coat my family had to look hard to find me).

Look the way things are going, I don't think I'm going to have children.... who go back to school in January. Just let me dress up the cat! Anyone know where I borrowed that line from? Hint: It's from one of my favourite TV shows EVER. So tired here - I need coffee-and-an-hour in the morning! Anyone else? Happy Wednesday. Make it a beautiful day!

When I was creating @thekindnessjournal in 2017, I became intimately acquainted with the research and work of several colleagues doing amazing things in the field of Positive Psychology, including @lauriesantosofficial. Dr. Santos is a professor of psychology and created an undergraduate course for @yale that was SO popular, enrollment 'crashed' admissions! They moved it to Coursera to better deliver it so many people. No worries - because Dr. Santos also hosts the popular podcast "The Happiness Lab." So I'm beyond thrilled that Dr. Santos and I are both Speaking at the @mcmasteralumni1887 "Mac At Home" event series over the next 2 weeks, and I can truly call us colleagues. She even has a copy of the Journal! I can't wait to hear what she thinks of it, and to hear her speak tonight. Happy Monday!

One of my favourite quotes by this man. It's difficult for many of us to connect to the present, with everything our modern world is. I know I have struggled with it, feeling pulled by the many competing demands for my attention. Some of it is understandable and inevitable, and some of it I completely invite in on my own - mostly in the form of my own runaway thoughts - thoughts of yesterday, thoughts of tomorrow. One of the many ways I'm grateful for my children is they la...rgely have zero concept of yesterday or tomorrow. They live fully in every moment. Like it’s their last. And so it makes sense then that the quickest and easiest way for me to "just be"... is actually to be with them. I have to work harder at it outside of them. Yesterday is over, and tomorrow is promised to no one. Please share this with or tag someone you think might enjoy this today.

Bet you weren’t expecting that at the end (seriously, she won’t stop staring...!). What do you think? Good Things Come To Those Who ... ? If I had to start, I would begin with: Those Who Seek And Go After Good Things. What are Good Things anyway? Some are universal (safety, security, nourishment, connection, esteem), and others are more personal.... How would you finish the sentence?

I’m inspired by those sharing how in the midst of change and loss, something else has been found: An appreciation for slowness, a wonderment of how we got to be so fast in the first place, and a profound recognition that we are in need of balance once we move beyond our current circumstances. Is it any wonder that when we have less, it is easier to be happier? Having less pushes us to Cherish and Savour more - two leading habits of happiness. Often (though not always) having... more involves giving more of our most precious assets: Time + Energy. Away from our loved ones, away from our friends, away from our communities, and away from ourselves. Having or working towards more (goals, things, freedoms, experiences, choices) is not a bad thing. It’s a great thing. We simply need to live more consciously and practice the habits of cherishing and savouring, when it’s easy to take things for granted or think now what? We are living on the flip side of the scale now - out of balance in the other direction, but it will end. If this ongoing experience has taught me anything, it has reinforced my desire for balance and time. Time to think. Time to read. Time to create. Time to reflect. Time to be with the people I love. And most of all, time for myself. That feels like everything to me. Please share your reflections, thoughts, and musings, I would love to hear.

I had the good fortune to know from an early age that a) I wanted to have kids in my life; and b) I wanted to have them MUCH later in my life (to my mother's dismay) I had an inkling for a lot of freedom up front in my adult years, to focus on myself, do as I pleased, and live in different parts of the world. And so I did. When I became a mother 7 years ago, it was one of my greatest dreams realized. I stepped consciously and happily into being one, and everything that go...es with it. Including losing a massive part of myself to the all-consuming thing that being a parent is. I love being their mother. But life after having kids changes everything: The barometer for my own behaviour, the risks I'm willing to take (or not), and many aspects of who I am that are temporary casualties of a chosen reality wherein I cannot do, have, or be everything I'd like to at this time. Because when we choose to place focus on something that enters our lives (especially one that takes 99% of our focus for the first few years), the focus on something else has to go. There's only so much space. As your children grow up, as mine are doing at 4 and 7, we must make a conscious effort to reacquaint ourselves with those aspects of who we are - both the old, and the newfound - a little more every day. Healthy attachment leads to healthy detachment. From both sides. Please join me tomorrow, Friday Dec. 11, from 11 am - 12 pm EST for a free virtual event with @inventivekidz where I'll be providing thoughts on how to thrive after becoming a parent, and how to continue connecting with yourself and retain the essence of who you are, outside of being a parent. The link to register is in my bio. Have a beautiful rest of today!