We’re like these living nesting dolls of urgency, buried in container after container – each reinforcing the drive to go faster, squeezing our essence smaller and smaller until it seems like a tired old joke. 

Can you picture yourself like that or get a sense of it? Imagine what could happen if even just one of those nesting containers broke wide open?

Just like we’re not supposed to be happy all the time, we’re not supposed to feel good all the time. That’s not how we’re built. The hard and uncomfortable are as they are for a reason — maybe it’s so we can learn where we’ve faltered at resourcing ourselves, or maybe it’s so we can lean into our communities when we need help, or maybe it’s so we slow down and reflect on our own roles in contributing to our discomfort. Maybe it’s all of the above and then some. I don’t know. But I do know there’s a lot to learn in this space.

A good bit of this comes with affirming a trusting relationship with our bodies — not just mind→body, but also body→mind. This relationship is a two-way street. Our minds need to be receptive to listening to our bodies, and then make decisions that support what’s being heard.

A thoughtful meditation for the beginning of Spring (or any new beginning) to connect with your body and discover where you're yearning to bloom. Feel free to listen on a walk around your neighborhood, as you make your bed and do some morning chores, or simply while sitting in stillness with yourself.

This week’s Mindful Morsel is an invitation to lean into the changes of life in the present.

Created in good energy💚

This week’s Mindful Morsel is a reminder that mindfulness is a hard practice. Let’s let our brave hearts shine and keep on keepin’ on.

Created in good energy💚

We are in the energy of the harvest moon* this lunar cycle, a time to take in the fruits of our labor, and I invite you do this with a lens of acceptance.

This week’s Mindful Morsel focuses on how oxytocin-producing activities are a win for proactive self care. Cheers for doing the pleasurable things in life ⭐

Created in good energy💚

Shifting into Mindful Morsels: tasty nuggets to help us sprinkle more mindful moments throughout our days (with hopes that the snowball effect will work in our favor).

This week’s Mindful Morsel is a reminder to walk away. We all need purposeful breaks to unplug, recharge, and breathe. Physically get up and move to a new environment.

Created in good energy💚

This week’s Mindful Musing is a bite-sized reminder to ask for what you need — give people a chance to help, and show yourself love by speaking up.

Created with good energy💚

This week, I’m practicing honoring where I’m at energetically with a little more peace by noticing when I’m judging myself and instead telling myself (out loud) to drop the imaginary yardstick.

Let this Mindful Musing be a pulse check - are you bypassing and avoiding or honoring where you’re at?

With tender and empathetic energy💚

what’s in front of you?

My patience has been short lately, particularly around my daughter. Parenthood is hectic and trying at times, but the root of the problem is how I’m reacting to my own feelings — shifting blame and responsibility outside of myself.

This week’s Mindful Musing is a reminder to look inward. To pause and breathe. And to once again visit the whimsical land of proactive self care, so that we may love ourselves and others more fully.

In good energy 💚

My relationship with sleep is a tense one, and it’s one of the top things I experience shame and guilt around.

I’ve created the circumstances that limit the number of hours I sleep, and this affects my quality of life everyday. Now I’m experimenting in a new way to see how I can remedy that.

I offer you this week's Mindful Musing as an invitation to relate, find inspiration, and reflect on what you might be brave enough to experiment with.

With rejuvenating good energy 💚

If you're feeling triggered, numb, or stuck in overwhelm from witnessing all that is going on in the world --- me too.

I offer you this week's Mindful Musing as an invitation to focus on self care basics to build a strong foundation for yourself, promote regulation, and create change in accessible ways.

With tender good energy 💚

find some pockets of time and space to practice mindfulness before the big moments when you really need it

tap into your natural power

what's your relationship with your body like?

Our relationships with our bodies can feel intimate and vulnerable and scary; there’s no other relationship like it.

what’s on your ‘play’ list? and what makes play ‘play’?

can't seem to quiet your mind during yoga or meditation? me either.

wtf is a quiet mind anyway?