I like to change up the welcome and introduction post occasionally, so let's have some fun. Tell us where you live and your fave holiday. Also feel free to tell us about yourself in the comments! 🥰

I've been a little under the weather with a cold the last 4 days, but in between doing the work tasks I need to do and resting in between, this landed on my heart for you. Funny how rest makes you reflect. My Taurus Full Moon Blessing to all of you beautiful humans. "On this beautiful Taurus Full Moon, please bless all who read this with a life filled with joy and love; a home filled with warmth and peace; abundance and prosperity that arrives with ease; relationships and connections that are authentic and true; and may the foundations and stability for the next chapter of their lives be laid. Let the opportunities arrive and doors open that usher in this next season of all they have dreamed of, prayed for and manifested. Thank you for the abundant blessings already on their way." ✨🙏🫶🤍 Much love to you all, today and every day. I hope you receive this and all of your dreams and prayers are answered. Is there anything coming up for you during this full moon?

On Tuesday, I shared that I was going to the Denver Skool IRL event with Goose. I also shared that while I was super excited, I was still holding some hesitation being introverted. But I am so glad I went!!! It blew me away and far exceeded my expectations. I'm met some absolutely incredible humans that I connected with immediately. There was such an amazing vibe because Goose brought his usual enthusiasm, joy, and giving nature. He was so generous with his knowledge and time. We had a blast outside the bus, in the bus, and on the bus (the sky view below)!! Goose reminded us all that while we host communities, it's super important to connect to humans, especially in the digital world. We did a fun exercise, making content together (and it's where is here and more fun doing it in a group). I'm going to share some more insights over the coming days but wanted to remind you that we weren't meant to do life alone. We are naturally communal beings and thrive when we are connected. ✨✨✨✨

Yesterday we talked about bypassing versus healing. Honoring the path, the layers, the highs and lows, and most importantly that we each have our own process and expression. So this brings me to Part 2. The other thing I've been noticing is that we often talk about feeling and emotion and learning to identify it or label it. We also might learn to release it or move through it, which is an important part of the healing journey. But I'd say that being able to sit with and hold those emotions as well as everything that comes up with them is a true hallmark of integration and embodiment. When you can sit with that anger or sadness and not let it consume you and cause you to spiral and project. When you can sit with it and recognize, yes, this is anger or yes, this is sadness... and I honor this feeling because I'm meant to feel these things. Even more, when we can feel these and not assign meaning to them, but just notice them for what they are without judgement. This brings up capacity. How much capacity do we have to sit with those things that used to cause us pain, fear, or make us uncomfortable or anxious? The more we do this deep in our work and connect to our divine selves, our capacity grows and expands, along with joy, love, and our ability to really feel our interconnectedness and oneness. We can meet ourselves and others with a greater level of compassion and service. I've been thinking about that quite a bit lately. Also, how this relates to my ability to be a stewardward of community, healing, and transformation. @Miranda Mitchell some of your posts have gotten me thinking so I wanted to acknowledge you for that! 🥰🙏🏼 What do you think? Have you tried sitting with and holding some of the feelings that aren't comfortable?

I've noticed a trend and I want to speak to it. And I also want to hear from you. There are MANY people, myself included, who talk and teach about the many levels of healing and spirituality. For context, I see healing and spirituality on a continuum that ebbs and flows, and many people begin in their physical body with symptoms, pain, emotions, and trauma, and move to the energetic and etheric body then to spiritual realms. This is obviously not true for everyone, but it's the pattern I've seen most often in 20+ years of working with people. And we tend to spiral up through the layers as we move through journey and navigate the ups and downs of life. Sometimes we're called to revisit a wound we thought we healed and integrated or consider a trigger that is annoying but still on our radar. Sometimes a look with a fresh lens or perspective is needed so we can learn deeper meaning or fully integrate something. What I've noticed is various types of bypassing or discounting. I'm not talking about toxic positivity or the "love and light" folks. That's obvious (and FWIW, I believe we were meant to experience the breadth of the human experience- not be sunshine and rainbows 24/7). I'm talking about people not honoring the actual lived experience of others. Most of us have gone through many layers and have been cracked open to find deep healing and truth. I've seen comments all over (SM, articles, and even some on Skool) saying you don't need to do deep work to heal, you don't need to feel your emotions, you don't have to address your trauma, etc. I disagree. To me, this is bypassing and not really wanting to face the reality that healing isn't easy. It can become easier as we move through the layers, but it isn't inherently an easy process. From my vantage point, from both my own experience and doing mind, body and spirit healing work for 20+ years, doing the inner work and being completely honest with yourself is much harder than changing your diet, exercising, focusing on sleep, or taking supplements or medications. I survey my clients and they all agree- the diet, lifestyle, and protocol stuff was easy; learning to regulate their nervous system was easy-ish to moderate; and the hardest part was addressing the emotion and trauma.