✨ What if grounding isn't simply about connecting to the Earth, but about learning to recognize, understand, and consciously work with the energies we experience every day? Everything around us is in constant motion. Nature moves through its seasons, the Moon through its phases, and we, too, experience our own cycles of expansion, stillness, transformation, and renewal. And just as the Earth has its rhythms, so do we. Have you ever walked into a room and immediately felt a shift in the atmosphere? Or spent time with someone and walked away feeling either uplifted or completely drained? Perhaps you've awakened feeling peaceful and centered, only to find yourself overwhelmed by the emotions, expectations, and demands of others before the day is over. "This is where energetic awareness becomes an important part of our mindfulness journey." We don't have to absorb every emotion around us. We don't have to respond to every disturbance. And we certainly don't have to abandon our own inner peace simply because the world around us is unsettled. Grounding teaches us how to remain connected to ourselves while experiencing the world around us. 💛 Today's Heart-Centered Question: When you feel the energies around you shifting, do you find yourself being pulled into them, or are you learning to remain grounded in the truth of who you are? I'd love to hear your reflections. 🌿 Welcome Home to Yourself With Love and Gratitude Laurie Rolling The Mindful Journey — Returning Home to Yourself 💛

Welhome Home Sundays touchs my heart and enables me to settle in and reconnect after the weekend. It's why I chose to create The Mindful Journey — Returning Home to Yourself And I ask, What does it truly mean to come home to yourself? Sit with that question for a moment. Not just think about it with your mind, but feel it within your heart. Because coming home to yourself is so much more than finding a quiet moment, taking a deep breath, or stepping away from the noise of the world. Coming home to yourself is remembering who you are beneath the noise. Remember, Somewhere along our journey, many of us began to lose touch with ourselves. We became who we needed to be to survive. We learned to be strong when we wanted to fall apart. We learned to smile when our hearts were hurting. We learned to put the needs, expectations, and happiness of others before our own. And sometimes, without even realizing it, we became strangers to our own hearts. We stopped asking ourselves what we needed. We stopped listening to that quiet voice within us. We became so busy living our lives that we forgot to truly experience them. And then, Something begins to stir within us. A quiet knowing. A longing for something we cannot quite explain. A connection to Love? A connection to The Divine? Is it the connection to Spirit? And, When we learn to truly reconnect we finally understand what it means to Come Home And what does it feel like when we finally begin to return home? It feels like being able to exhale after holding our breath for far too long. It feels like no longer having to prove our worth, explain our existence, or apologize for being who we are. It feels like discovering that the love, peace, and acceptance we have spent so much of our lives searching for outside ourselves has been there waiting to be cultivated within us. And that realization is where beautiful things begins to happen. We become gentler with ourselves. We begin to recognize when something no longer feels right within our hearts.

Why I choose to have gratitude Thursday or Thankful Thursday however you wish to think of it. After all, Gratitude Is All About Being Thankful. After a very hard, long, or easy week at work, or at home, things begin tuggingat us, pulling us out of alignment, possibly triggering us on a heart level. Like me this week, The way some people behave knocked me way way the f*** out of alignment and I'm thankful that I knew what to do to recenter myself and that I've made it through another week. Tomorrow is Friday, most people's last day of the work week but Friday is also a chance to stay up late bask in the Moonlight and Gaze at the stars. Especially with the New Moon In Library that's coming. I'm so thankful and grateful to be able to follow the cycles of the Moon and use them with the changing seasons of my life. What are you thankful for this week? Laurie Mindfulness Coach Founder of The Mindful Journey

Due to unforseen events, today's live coaching call is being canceled. We will resume live coaching next week as scheduled on the calendar Bright Blessings and Namaste 🙏 Laurie

Over these past few weeks We have talked about coming home to ourselves. We have practiced grounding and returning to our center. We have explored gratitude, balance, alignment, and what it means to step more fully into the person we are becoming. And sometimes, when we are so focused on healing, growing and expanding our consciousness, we forget something very important: We forget to look back and see how far we have already come. So today, before we begin thinking about what comes next, I want you to ground yourself in what you already know to be true. You have grown. You have learned. You have made it through things you once wondered if you could survive. You have begun to recognize what feels aligned and what doesn't. You have indeed started listening differently— to your heart, to your body, to your intuition, and to that quiet voice within you that has always known the way home. That Matters And as we move toward the New Moon in Libra on October 10, this is a beautiful time to stand firmly in everything we have learned before while deciding what we want to create next. Remember, here in The Mindful Journey, we don't use the New Moon simply to make a wish list. We come home first. We get quiet. We ground ourselves. We look honestly at what we are still carrying that no longer supports the life we are creating—and then we begin setting intentions for what we are ready to cultivate in its place. The New Moon in Libra brings our attention beautifully toward balance, harmony, relationships and alignment. But before asking, “What do I want next?” perhaps the deeper questions are: What have I already accomplished? Who have I become because of everything I have walked through? What do I know now that I didn't know before? And then ask... What intention can I set that will carry me further along the path I am already walking? 🌿 Your Grounding Practice for Today Place both hands over your heart. Take three slow breaths. Feel your feet beneath you. Come back to your center.