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💚

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 💚

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’?

Today I’m coming in hot with a yogi confession: I don’t practice chaturanga.

celebrate this. — i sat down 💫

celebrate this. — a simple nourishing act for deep self care 🥘

celebrate this. — proof that the hard work is working and the efforts aren’t futile ✨

celebrate this. — glowin’ it up and getting personal 🔥

celebrate this. avoiding emotional bypassing.

I’ve been leaking energy. Spewing it in places that aren’t worthwhile for me. And not giving enough to things that absolutely fucking are.

Cue re-alignment!✊

I've been reflecting on my basic values: What’s most important? Not to anyone else. But to me. What are my values? What are my priorities? What am I doing to honor those and to act from places that align with those?

I've also found myself looking at some things in new ways.

We’re hitting the third quarter (3Q) phase of this Worm Moon* cycle, and we’re getting closer and closer to the Spring Equinox, and I couldn’t be more excited to see that day.

I. Am. Waiting.

Longingly.

Our last lunar love letter was an invitation to reflect on the last cycle and think about some intentions for this one. How did that go for you? What came up? Did anything feel particularly easy or hard?

Personally, I experienced intense energy around the new moon 🌑. I had a lot of emotions surface simultaneously, and apparently that’s what my body, mind, and spirit needed – to let them bubble up 🌋 and over and out . It was a rough process and not very pretty – but even though growth isn’t all fairy wings and glitter, it’s still fucking beautiful, and I’m grateful to be able to experience it.

This month’s lunar cycle hinges on a full moon known as the Worm Moon*. Within this cycle, (where I’m at) we are noticing the earth transitioning from winter to spring, and the Spring Equinox falls right on the last day of the cycle.

Think about that: the last sliver of the Worm Moon takes us right into a literal new season – one of new growth 🪴 and promise.

Loving yourself is a practice. Like so many things, we have to show up for it and try at it and fail at it and celebrate the tiniest of successes along the way. Some days are easier. Some days it’s all we can do to not loathe ourselves into oblivion. And some days it all comes together. Even if just for an hour.

Among all the personal development work I’ve been doing, one of the largest challenges I’ve adopted this year was to disengage from treating my appearance as a primary source of my identity. I have long-seeded body image issues, as do many of us, but this past year, I took on a mission that really tested those: I quit smoking.

How we treat our bodies is literally how we live. And living your life from a place of balance and centeredness makes everything more grand. It helps you show up with love instead of fear, helps you grow relationships, and ponder the world with the wonder of a child instead of the stress of an overworked adult. It helps you regain a sense of freedom, not just in your body, but in your life.