It's been a wonderful three days of learning about my Mexican roots and traditions from pre conquest Mexico. We've been studying the Codex Laud, one of multiple manuscripts that have the history of the indigenous people in Mexico in the central Mexican Valley and south to Oaxaca where I am currently. We've been studying the Day signs and the 260 day sacred calendar. It's been a beautiful immersion. We got to be creative and use the same type of paper from a tree called amate that the indigenous people used and this paper is still in production today. We drew our day sign which is the day of your birth. My day sign is 6 Wind. The process is done in steps so there's the pencil drawing the first outline and then you go in order of colors starting with red then the greens and the yellows my particular sign didn't have any blue so red green yellow and black

Before we go further, there is something I want to say to you with lots of love and compassion. You have spent years — maybe decades — looking at parts of yourself as problems to fix. Just think about…. The way you shrink in certain rooms. The way you go quiet when you want to speak. The way you’ve learned to make yourself smaller, softer, less. The way you disappear sometimes even when you are standing right there. I've been in all these places. So you called it a pattern. A block. A wound. Something broken that needs to be healed before you can finally live the way you want to live. Yes, I did that, too. But I want to offer you a different way of seeing it, of seeing you. What if none of that is broken? What if every single part of you that learned to hide — the quietness, the smallness, the going-away-while-staying — was doing exactly what it was built to do? Protecting you. Think about it for a second. Somewhere in your history — maybe early on, maybe as a young adult, or maybe not so long ago — you learned that being fully seen was not safe. That showing your whole self had a cost. That too much, too loud, too real got you hurt, dismissed, abandoned, or shamed. So a part of you got smart. That part learned to read the room before you entered it. It learned to scan for danger before you opened your mouth. It learned to make you acceptable, manageable, palatable — because that was how you survived. That part of you — I call it the guardian. And the guardian has been doing its job without a single day off ever since. You can feel the guardian in your belly. In your chest. In the tension you carry in your shoulders. In the automatic shrinking that happens before you even realize you're doing it. That is your guardian. Not a malfunction. Not evidence of how damaged you are. It's evidence of how you adapted to conditions that were genuinely hard. This was done with intelligence. Here is what I know about empaths and healers — the people who come into my community. You feel everything. You have always felt everything. And somewhere along the way, feeling everything in a world that was not always kind to your sensitivity became dangerous. So the guardian learned to protect the feeling. To keep it hidden. To keep you safe from the cost of being that open. To keep you safe from the cost of being you.

Day 14 of the Healers Challenge is now available. This is important work in this Day 14 material. Take your time and leave y our comments on this thread. Thank you all!!

Mid Week check in - What are you working on with your healing? Where are you finding gaps that need to be addressed? What do you need? How can we support you with your healing journey? This is the place to ask questions and ask for help/guidance. We had an amazing time at the Live Session today. I shared material from a new workshop I'm developing on Creating Peac of Mind as a Healing Practice. I thoroughly enjoyed the talk and hope you got something out of it. The details about the workshop will be out soon.

The Day 10 training for the Healers Challenge is available now. Please take your time with this material for Day 10. It is powerful and asks you for your commitment to yourself and to the path of healing.