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Be. Play. Love.

Katie Hendricks, PhD & Sophie Chiche

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What if personal transformation didn't have to be HARD? What if you could PLAY your way through obstacles in life and relationships? That's what the conversations on Be. Play. Love. reveal to you. Listen in and learn how to embrace your whole self. Pull up a chair and let's explore how to… - Live your life fully in your purpose - Interrupt old patterns and befriend your feelings - Experience “play” as a way of being Join us each week if you want to live consciously, joyfully, and transform y ...
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Our bodies are the vessels we occupy from the start of our lives, but so many of us feel disconnected in this home we have within ourselves. If we live in our bodies, how can they feel so foreign to us? For a whole lot of reasons, we’re taught to ignore body wisdom even though it holds the most potent information about ourselves and how we move thr…
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You’ve likely heard about the “whole body yes” and “whole body no”, and maybe even practiced using these to make your decision-making process a little easier. But choosing is really hard when we don’t feel that nudge from our body wisdom, and we just feel “meh” about the whole thing. When it’s not a definite yes or no, we’re stuck in limbo, and tha…
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The old way of showing up to work meant shoving our emotions away, not being vulnerable and putting on a facade of confidence, no matter what. Admitting you were afraid, unsure or overwhelmed? That was an absolute no-no. The problem is, this also meant we were showing up without a lot of the intelligence we actually need to have emotionally healthy…
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Moving house, they say, is one of life’s most stressful events, but it doesn’t have to be. Sure, it stirs up a ton of emotions and learned patterns, but with the right awareness and intention, it can be a magical time and a beautiful voyage to a new world. We can discover new parts of ourselves, deconstruct feelings as they come up, and treat the m…
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This just in: science has confirmed what we’ve known (and have been practicing for years) about the power of paying attention to our body sensations. In a world of doom scrolling, depression, anxiety and fear, the solution lies within - in the amazing treasure chest we have in our bodies. We have an inner garden of sensory data, feelings, embedded …
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Don’t mix prints, you’ll stand out too much. Don’t wear horizontal stripes, it makes you look wider. Wear what looks good, even if it doesn’t feel good. Behind every woman is a rigid set of fashion rules that stifles our expression, creativity and keeps us from accessing the play that comes with fashion. What if we took the inside out approach to f…
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In the world of sports, many people think that the energy of competing is the most powerful thing we can tap into. But there’s actually a higher level to play the game at, and that’s coherence. Instead of being reactive, and playing like we’re in a pinball machine, we can tap into presence, flow and connection, and that’s when everything just click…
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Seeking the approval of others, helping people without being asked, putting famous people on a pedestal. These behaviors might seem completely unrelated, but they are symptoms of the same thing - hero-ing. Anytime we’re not acting from our own inner value, we’re relinquishing our power to an external source, which is dangerous. Hero-ing ourselves, …
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The shift from side hustle to entrepreneur, ghostwriter to author is in many ways, a shift from self-imposed obscurity to visibility and standing in our own worth. Many of us are conditioned to promote others, be in the background, obligate and accommodate to a point where we end up not taking up the space we deserve. When we become the face of som…
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Take criticism, they say…it will be good for you, they say. Our culture has led us to believe that criticism is the price we pay for genius and that it’s the only way to learn what we need in order to be great. There’s one problem though: no one learns and improves when they’re in fight mode. We can’t access flow or genius when we’re frozen up - it…
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Connection is the ultimate antidote to loneliness and addiction, but in our world, it eludes so many. The rift between our inner landscapes and how we describe them to each other makes it hard for us to tune into one another, and so we’re stuck in small talk, restrictive words, and nothing that truly nourishes. We want to get our true feelings acro…
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When it comes to wealth, it seems like there are two camps our society tends to put people in: those who make an impact doing what they love, but don’t make a lot of money, or, those who make a lot of money, but don’t make an impact and hate what they do. It’s easy to get caught up in the paradigm that if you’re trying to earn money and work in you…
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Photography can be used in many ways, but in its most magical form, it can formulate a different lens through which we can see ourselves. This lens can access our realness and beautifully reflect it back to us. When we look in a mirror, we might start to criticize ourselves, but when we look at a photo that truly reflects our essence, we can’t help…
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In the journey towards our most expansive, genius self, one thing likes to trip us up - our upper limit. You’ll see it in every culture, no one goes unscathed. If you’ve ever noticed how your big mess ups happen after something good happens - you might have an upper limit problem. Anytime we grow, a loud alarm goes off in our subconscious. Our job …
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When the world is shaking and there seems to be suffering everywhere we look, it’s really easy to sink, to think “what’s the use” and shut ourselves off from joy and beauty. Experiencing our aliveness is the act of balancing the awful with the awesome, and learning to let different feelings flow through us. Our emotions come from one faucet, we can…
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Ever noticed how our bodies are these incredible, self-sufficient chemists? Adrenaline, our homemade super drug, rushes in when urgent demands and life's drama unfold. It's a potent surge, but it's a fleeting high that leaves us wanting more, every single time. But here's the real kicker – there's another player in town, often overshadowed by adren…
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When we’re squarely in our Zone of Genius, work doesn’t feel like work. It feels like play, flow, ease; we’re plugged directly into Source. Unfortunately, today’s world of work isn’t about play. It’s all process and productivity, “we’re doing serious, important work here, there’s no room for fun.” If it feels too easy, we must not be doing anything…
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Being a hero is celebrated and even coveted in our culture, but if we dig into it, it’s actually not a positive thing. Humans have this magnificent impulse to share and give - the art of generosity. But this incredible ability can easily run up against the need to be the hero. Heroes swoop in and save the day, but it doesn’t actually come from a go…
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An idea - whether it’s a business, a book, or a brand isn’t just an object. It’s a living dynamic organism that has come to us, and us alone, for a reason. This beautiful thing chose us to flow through and co-create with us, and that’s a vision that needs no one’s approval to bloom. It’s a completely different way of doing business, yes, but it is …
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The transition from one year to the next always stirs up all sorts of questions and the obligatory subject of resolutions. The problem is that we often go about it the wrong way. For starters, we don’t bring completion to the last year, so we carry old energy forward. Then we think about creating what we want in a way that feels more like punishmen…
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Our inner voices can be the most loving, comforting and compassionate parts of ourselves. Unfortunately for many of us, they are the most critical, prickly, and unkind speakers. It’s like our worst insecurities and fears are being played on loudspeaker over and over again. It actually goes all the way back to the womb. Sound is the first sensation …
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Presence…it’s a word most of us employ as a noun, but that strips it of its power and purpose. Presencing may not be a word dictionaries and search engines recognize, but it is how our essence is actually expressed. Presence in its truest sense isn’t a static state - it’s active, always expanding and shifting. It’s how we fill our reservoir of aliv…
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Creativity is the ability to let your beautiful internal hologram radiate out into the world, but it’s not easy. We’re taking the most innocent, precious part of ourselves and airing it out at the risk of opinions, judgment and rejection. There’s power in taking radical responsibility for our experiences. There’s significance in flipping every “no,…
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Going from an average pickleball player to a champion should be a moment of celebration, but sometimes winning unleashes questions, doubts and stories we didn’t even know were there. “Am I a threat now that I’m doing well?” “Do people hate me now?” “Maybe I should have lost to make things easier.” Competition often activates parts of ourselves that…
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When we look at babies, no one’s thinking about how competent or productive they are. We find them lovable, valuable, and deserving of curious, nourishing attention, just as they are. Then we get older and a switch flips. We move away from being, and we start manufacturing our value through work, being highly competent, and producing something wort…
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Faster cars, faster internet, faster technology and faster results…do you ever feel like you’re running on a clock going at 100X speed, or like you’re on a treadmill running on the fastest setting? That’s the culture we’re living in…it’s more acceleration, less appreciation. More pushing than presence. Here’s the problem: when we focus on speeding …
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Magic is all around us, and we can tap into it when our intentions are truly aligned. Imagine getting the chance to hang out with giraffes (your favorite animal), but being told “no” because of a time limit… then suddenly a kind stranger shows up and offers to take you to the giraffes. These goosebumpy moments are bigger than chance - they are dire…
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Feelings are a treasure trove of human essence. They tell us so much about our inner landscape and how we’re responding to what’s going on around us. Sadly, we’ve been trained not to feel our feelings so we shove them away, hoping they don’t surface again. How many times have we heard people say “you’re too sensitive” and “suck it up” when someone …
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Our world is starved of people showing up as their true selves - with our awkwardness, playfulness and realness front and center. The fear of being too much, too loud and too messy drives a lot of people to shrink themselves, and walk around with an injured essence. A powerful catalyst for realness is being in the presence of people who welcome all…
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One thing that sets human beings apart from other living things is our ability to make up stories. It’s a gift, but when applied to our relationships, it can often be a curse. When we have a disruption with a loved one or colleague, the stories we tell ourselves about that interaction create disconnection. In the absence of information, stories are…
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“What do you do?” “Look what’s happening with the weather.” “How are the kids?” Canned and over-rehearsed small talk is what so many of us default to conversationally, but that’s where all connection and play go to die. What would happen if we allowed ourselves to drop into something deeper and just let the best nuggets emerge? If we let it, a lot …
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A new season is a transition we’re all aware of. Time for warmer clothes, fall colors and pumpkin spice lattes. That’s not the only way change comes our way, though. There are transitions everywhere in our lives - from waking up everyday to moving from room to room. When we go from place to place without being present, we risk leaving some of ourse…
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When we come on this planet, we all get these bodies to inhabit. Living in these bodies comes with its own baggage and that makes it hard for us to love ourselves and experience aliveness. Our bodies, how we sustain them, and how we dress them can be a reflection of how we see ourselves, or the distorted image of what other people see and say. We c…
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Hurri-quakes, falling over, water spills on our outfits and other unexpected happenings. Why can’t things just go the way we want? Dealing with the unexpected is sort of like finding your legs during an earthquake. When what you think is solid starts moving, what you trust becomes unstable. Our patterned response is to fight, control, anticipate an…
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When life hits us with the unexpected, we all have our own trained responses. From fear to thinking it’s our fault, this takes us away from the point of it all - being fully in our lives. Our culture teaches us messaging that doesn’t allow us to open up our hearts, in fact we’re trained to not feel at all. We have this expansive sensory apparatus a…
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When we’re young, we respond to life with our whole bodies. As we grow, that liveliness gets trained out of us, leaving no room for the power of playfulness. Being, playing, and loving are inextricably linked. We can’t experience aliveness without all 3, but our culture often misses this important link, and pain is needlessly prolonged. There’s a b…
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