Getting curious – Can you meet yourself where you are, wherever that may be?

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Incomplete stress responses, reacting vs responding, expanding your window of tolerance, and welcoming yourself home. An invitation to get curious and allow exactly where you are, to be enough at this time. Getting curious: – how often do you run from discomfort? – are you able to be in the present moment or does your anxiety, rumination, to-do lists, etc., …

I used to…

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I used to scream or drop to the floor crying when someone walked in the room unexpectedly. I used to carry constant tension in my body.  I used to go for massages and feel the RMT’s arms shaking from the pressure they were using and I still couldn’t feel it.  I have very few childhood memories. I used to live …

A Love Letter to My Illnesses (and Body)

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This is not a letter of martyrdom, but of radical responsibility. For the choices I did and did not make and the actions I did not take. Although I understand that we operate in systems, families, communities, and everyone plays a role that impacts the other, this is my responsibility to own – and doing so, empowers me. I’m sorry. …

Massive Transformation is Happening Now – are you experiencing it?

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I experienced a massive transformation last night. That’s the thing about transformation – it really can happen in an instant. Simultaneously I understand that its not just that instant. It is a cumulative effect of so many different factors coming together at once and saying, “it’s time”. I had been receiving a lot of messages recently like blue butterflies, lady …

Do it Sick. (Creating an intentional life from exactly where you are)

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This post is all about creating an intentional life for yourself – from exactly where you are right now. Do it sick. Do it lonely. Do it poor. Do it uncertain. Do it with kids. Do it while things are messy. Do it scared. This isn’t about pushing yourself beyond your means – whether that be financially, physically, or based …

ANNOUNCING: new on-demand, virtual, sacred energetic container; some of my inner-processes; sliding scale; and more.

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It’s finally here!! Preparing for this announcement has shown me areas that are asking to be accepted, loved, released, integrated or healed in my own self. As I was building this sacred container every step felt divinely guided. Despite my web team not “getting” the work that I am creating, I knew in every cell of my body that what …