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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The Unarguable Truth: How to Experience the Deliciousness of Your Realness
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One of the uncomfortable truths about human beings is that telling the truth and saying what's real is very difficult. In fact, some of us believe that lying about our experience preserves trust and makes our relationships stronger. In reality, this discomfort with truth is a discomfort with feeling our feelings and expressing our real emotions. Th…
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So much of our existence is being in relationship with others. Partners, parents, children, siblings, friends, colleagues and even competitors on the pickleball court! We’re always dealing with people, and that’s why so many patterns emerge out in the wild when we’re with other humans. Relationships with others can be a source of stress and conflic…
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Reparent Yourself: How to Become Your Own Source of Love and Approval
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There’s a reason why it’s so hard to silence or ignore our inner critic. It’s the same reason why we doubt our own experiences and body wisdom. It’s also why we often feel like in order to be lovable we need to do more instead of just being ourselves. Childhood is our most sensitive phase. We’re like sponges soaking up everything around us with no …
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6 Amazing Insights That Prove Your Body Is Smarter Than Your Brain
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Our culture has taught us to put an emphasis on and trust only in the information we get from our brains. At best, we completely ignore what our bodies have to tell us, and at worst we treat our body and its sensations like the enemy. When we don’t tap into our body’s wisdom, we’re operating without the richest source of information available to us…
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Don't Fight a Transition, Let the New Energy In w/ Gay Hendricks
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Most people experience an injury or other setbacks as an enterprise of the universe working against us. But what if the setback is an important transition, a demarcation point between who we were and who we’re going to be going forward? Maybe it’s buried traumas we need to address, or physical healing that will make us stronger. We’re being given t…
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Want to Expand Your Energy? Complete Your Incompletions
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For most people, when our brains feel sluggish or clogged up, the first thing we do is reach for the coffee. But there could be an entirely different reason why your creativity and energy are getting all tangled up. From to-do lists that never end, to decisions we’re not making and actions we’re procrastinating on - incompletions are a drain on our…
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Choose, Practice, Recommit: This Is What It Takes to Have Great Things
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We live in an instant gratification culture, so it’s not surprising that a lot of people want to just skip to the good part. We’re looking for that button that will magically fix everything wrong with our lives. Well, the truth is, the journey is just as beautiful as the destination we wish to arrive at. We expect great things to just magically app…
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Shift in the Moment: The Most Powerful Way to Diffuse An Inflamed Interaction
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Whether it’s an aggressive interaction at pickleball or a misunderstanding at work, our biggest lessons often come from not-so-pretty moments…if we choose to shift and learn. When we feel attacked by other people, it might feel justified to have a knee-jerk reaction and kick back, but we can accomplish a lot more by making another choice. It might …
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I’m Sorry For Being Great: Tall Poppy Syndrome in Women
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If you’ve ever felt uncomfortable and squirmy about celebrating your accomplishments, you have tall poppy syndrome AKA an upper limit problem. Unfortunately, because of how we’ve been conditioned to focus on others, women are more likely to struggle with this. You’ll often find us downplaying our greatness, making ourselves smaller, and having a lo…
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How to Build Your Inner House of Happiness w/ Marci Shimoff
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Recent stats show only 20% of women say they are truly happy, so it’s clear that we’re in the middle of a huge unhappiness epidemic. For centuries, we have been conditioned to abandon ourselves, not pay attention to what we need and externalize our experiences. No wonder so many of us live in a constant state of angst. In order to make happiness ha…
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How to Regain Your Intuition If You've Lost It
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Intuition is something every single human being has access to. That wise and timely inner voice that seems to drop information from nowhere and *just knows* something we don’t. Though it may feel like information coming from another realm, it’s actually coming from within. It’s just another sense we’ve been given, and it takes many forms. You feel …
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How to Become an Active Participant in Creating Your Health w/ Dr. Mary Pardee
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In our society, we treat our body like machines. We push them hard and only pay attention to them when they break down instead of preventing the breakdown in the first place. For many people, the solution is investing in all the trackers, watches and monitors to know what’s going on, but we completely abdicate our health to external influences in t…
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How to Switch Your Inner Language From Criticism to Self-Love
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Words have so much power, not just in the definition but also in the force behind them. Some of the worst things we say are to ourselves, and we often don’t even know it’s happening. There’s a reason why we’re so good at addressing ourselves negatively. Our culture teaches us to stay in check, not to get too full of ourselves and it also teaches us…
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Conscious Ink: How to Solidify a Moment With Meaning w/ Frank Gjata
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Whenever we make a commitment, set an intention or create an affirmation, we often need a little reminding, and words do that so effectively. Some people write words that remind them of the commitment on Post-it Notes or in journals. That’s because words can be a powerful anchor that brings us back to what matters. They can be metaphors we can appl…
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Wellbeing Starts With Curiosity: How to Nurture Yourself Daily
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Being kind to ourselves is an ongoing conversation, and one of the ways it expresses itself is through the things we do to nourish ourselves physically, mentally, and emotionally. Ultimately, our ability to fully experience and express our essence is hinged on our daily habits and practices of self-care and self-love. We can think of each of these …
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Movement...the Most Powerful Way to Reclaim Security in Your Body w/Erica Hornthal
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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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When It’s Not a Whole Body Yes: How to Locate Yourself and Make a Choice
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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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Making Friends with Your Feelings: The New Way of Leadership w/Diana Chapman
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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 Can Be Magical: How to Play With Transitions
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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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Sense Foraging: How to Interrupt Fear by Feeling Into Your Wisdom
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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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You Are the Canvas: How to Dress for Self-Expression
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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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Coherence: The Most Powerful Nutrient for Any Great Game
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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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Hero-ing is Hurting You: How to Shift Into Your Own Genius
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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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Let Yourself Be Visible: The Journey From Ghostwriter to Author
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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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Criticism is Always Destructive: A Kinder Way to Unleash Genius
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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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How to Experience The Nourishment of Your Inner Landscape
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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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Money Follows Energy: The Intersection Between Impact and Wealth
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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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Bend Time With Essence: Lessons From Our Photoshoot
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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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The Upper Limit is the One Problem: How to Make Friends With It w/Gay Hendricks
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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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How to Feel Happiness in the Face of Collective Sorrow
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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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Adrenaline is Addictive, Actual Life Energy is Nourishing
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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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Play at Work: How to Spend More Time in Your Zone of Genius w/Tina Scala
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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 the Hero Actually Isn't a Good Thing: How to Give Unselfishly
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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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Within is the Safest Place to Be: How to Create From Essence and Resonance w/Suzy Batiz
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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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New Year Energy: A Simple Process to Pull the Future Into the Present
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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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How to Make Self-Love Louder Than Your Inner Critic
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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 Isn’t Just a Noun: How to Perfectly Practice the Art of Presencing
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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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Reactivity is the Flip Side of Creativity: How to Get On the Delicious Side of Things w/Kirsten Vangsness
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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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Competition is Killing Us: How to Shift Into Celebration
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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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Curious Attention: The Template for Self-Love & Cure For Manufactured Value
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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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There’s No Rehab Center for Adrenaline Junkies …How to Find Your Scenic, Sunday Drive Pace
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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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Are You Committing or Counter-Committing? This One Thing Will Make You a Magnet for Magic
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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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The Real Delicious: How to Feel Your Feelings and Stop Fleeing From Them
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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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Your Weirdness is Welcome Here: How to Catalyze Showing Up As Your True Self w/Jennifer Pastiloff
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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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When You Find Yourself Making Up a Story, Step Back Into Resonant Reality
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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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The Juicy Wonderfulness of Real Conversation: How to Make It Your Default State
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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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Transitions Are Constant: How to Take All of You With You Through Change
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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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Stop Cringing and Hiding, Start Celebrating and Loving the Body You Inhabit
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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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Land Like Fred Astaire: Using Presence to Deal With the Unexpected
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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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