shannen roberts

We Filmed a Beginning Yoga for Anxiety Video!

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We Filmed a Beginning Yoga for Anxiety Video!

I finished filming a beginning yoga for anxiety video on Friday, June 19 at YogaWorks Pasadena! The video is one in a series of four yoga for anxiety and depression videos for my mental health blog The Strange is Beautiful (thestrangeisbeautiful.com) and for my 300 hour yoga teacher training project. I’m so grateful to have such talented, helpful and loving friends – Christian Soriano, Corey Strong and Nadia Adella – who gave their time to make this video possible and a brilliant yoga mentor, Ashley Rideaux, to help me design the yoga sequence. A huge thanks to YogaWorks Pasadena, to the manager Ken, for letting me use the studio to film and for moppping/turning the air on so the room wasn’t a sauna for the shoot! :)

May: LGBTQIA Show and Self-Help Campaign

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May: LGBTQIA Show and Self-Help Campaign

May is mental health awareness month! Take a photo of yourself with a self-help tip and hashtag #TheStrangeisBeautiful. Tag your friends to share their advice too <333.

Sadcore Sundays: “Happy” by Synthetic Colours

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Sadcore Sundays: "Happy" by Synthetic Colours


I was so scared after I wrote the lyrics to this song that I was going to throw it away but before I did, I sent it to Austin Kowalczyk. He wrote the happiest music to go with these terribly depressing lyrics. If the music was written any other way, I wouldn’t be able to perform it. The audio is of Austin’s recorded version from his solo project “Synthetic Colours” and this video is of me and my friend Gabi Garcia performing it at a record store called Rock Candy that closed down a few years ago.

be patient with your plants – happy earth day

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be patient with your plants - happy earth day

be patient with your plants
and have fun while they bloom.
fun is nutrients
fun is life

Silicon Valley – Stress of Child Poverty Changes Brain Chemistry

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Silicon Valley - Stress of Child Poverty Changes Brain Chemistry

“There’s people over here that struggle to throw away the trash because they’re scared that they might not come back,” said Jorge Valencia, 16.

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This article on Silicon Valley really touched me because, coming from a middle class family, it is heartbreaking to see my friends who have been poor all their lives struggle with simple basic needs and have constant mental stress, yet it is hard for me to fully grasp how and why poverty won’t let them escape.