Because as you look at the burned, charred trees……they are still standing tall and strong. Through it all, they are still here, resilient as ever!

“I knew it in my gut.”

“I felt it in my heart.”

“I had butterflies in my stomach.”

“It makes my chest tight.”

Thoughts, emotions, and intuition. Have you ever taken a moment to consider the ways in which these three important tools send cues to your physical body? Though we often perceive our thoughts to be largely contained within our heads, the language around emotions and intuition consistently points to a corporal association. How often have you met someone new and just felt a connection- or a repulsion- that you couldn’t explain? When you’re about to give a big presentation, what sensations arise in your body? Does your stomach feel fluttery? Do your palms sweat? Does your mouth become dry?

Sir Ken Robinson has said that in our modern era, many of us walk around as though our body is just a mechanism to take our heads to meetings. And while a disassociation of the mind and body may be rather convenient within many academic or professional settings, in the long run we handicap ourselves by denying one of our most valuable human assets.

And then my child yell's from the bathroom, I need a band aide I can't stop bleeding (at 7:11am).

Peace will be waiting for me back in my chair, next to my pretty lit tree and my cozy blanket, with my yummy coffee when I get back after doing band aide surgery (I have these amazing Unicorn band aide's that rock any young kids socks off).

We ourselves choose the worst possible perceptions.

99% of the time you are feeling the way you are feeling in the present moment, it's because there was an early time in your life that you got this way.

I was in junior high, when everyone is trying to figure out what the hell their bodies are doing, who they are as a person, do I go goth or tight roll my pants? I spent much time in front of the mirror popping my pimples (which I struggled with an oily pimple face). So fun.

One of my passions is having deep, authentic, compassionate conversations with people.

I am so curious as to how we are all built so differently and how everything that has shown up on our own personal journeys has shaped the person we are today. And we are so beautifully, uniquely different.

What if what ever it is that you are recovering from is really the discovery or re-discovery of your true essence?

To me it feels as if a sort of re-birth. A shedding of what no longer is, to become that which was always there.

No matter if you are in recovery of people pleasing, substance addiction, over eating, a broken heart, a workaholic, etc.