So, I have been really vibing with Elizabeth Gilbert over the past year, and now I understand even more so why, she just released her newest book about the intense experience she had in the last 6 months of her partner's life.....she really frames it around codependency as addiction, but I feel like there is another layer of just seeing the human experience as completely disconnected from circumstances, I've been really finding solace lately in the way in which with the internet we are able to see that the people who "have it all" are experience as much distress about being in human form as the rest of us, Glennon Doyle is another example of this, I mean if these people who have all the love and fame and money and purpose and are living their passions and all the access to every therapy and resource are still diving into the underworld on a regular basis then maybe we are just meant to be diving into the underworld on a regular basis, maybe this whole idea of escaping it is part of what makes it so brutal, and maybe if we were like, this is where I'm supposed to be when we are in distress, maybe that has more honesty and grace, anyways, I just found this interview really satisfying and I'm looking forward to reading the book! xo

Friends! Skool has started offering a "hobby plan" which makes hosting the group waaaay more affordable, so I'm going for it! I have noticed myself thinking, I wish I could just pop this or that into the community so the timing was perfect! And fall is my favorite and it always gives me a bunch of energy, so yay! I'll send this out in a newsletter as well so folks get the heads up. Here's the two videos I had wanted to share today, I'm doing SO much art right now so it was fun to come across another therapist recognizing the nervous system benefits of creativity, thanks @Miren Lopez xoxo

Hi Friends, I am hosting a Zoom hang-out tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 PST. I'm excited to hear what people have been up to these past months- RRP? SSP? The Breakdown Course? Please come say hi- I'll stay online for at least an hour. https://zoom.us/j/96516391998?pwd=nQyWDfIgV7kemDelTNUeKwlZ5SFRgb.1

Hi Skool friends. I'd like to host a group hang-out next Friday, June 20th, and wanted to check in with everyone to gauge interest and coordinate timing. It's been a while and I'd love to catch up with y'all and maybe meet some group members I haven't met before. I'm in CA and can hang out anytime between 2:00 and 6:00 pm Pacific time. Who wants to hang out? Let me know what works for you and I will send out a Zoom link next Wednesday.

As if to prove a point, my vagus nerve took me down today! I have a history of falling down stairs related to my vision impairment and brain injury clumsiness, so I'm usually very intentional, but tonight as I was rushing to get my kid out the door to lacrosse, I went upstairs to grab some books to occupy myself with during the practice and came running down the stairs in socks with 4 books and woosh, I bump crash slammed into each step whamming my forearm and butt and when I got to the bottom I was in so much blasting pain that I got woozy and passed right out. Chat gpt ran me through how the vagus nerve can just shut things down when the pain is too intense. Voila, I'm always trying to tell people how you can't control that thing, but it sure can control you! I'm sore and very tired but a-ok otherwise. It was a great reminder to take my time, I don't have the body that can handle rushing. And my kid made me dinner for the first time, a gorgeous hummus plate, so that was a real treat!