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! 🥰

This is going to be the first post of many sharing with you pattern I've noticed over my two decade career working with patients and clients in the functional medicine, emotional, and trauma spaces. This isn't purely observational data because for most of the last decade I consulted for integrative and functional medicine software companies, and lab and supplement companies collecting and analyzing their data as well as from my own practice. And one of my superpowers has always been noticing patterns before patterns became a buzz word recently. It's what I did as a kid and it translated well to my work as a microbiologist, functional medicine doctor, emotional and trauma guide and as a consultant. The one that always stood out to me was how many people having anxiety. It didn't matter what source I was analyzing or if they came to see me for a non-emotional or traumatic cause, anxiety was always the number one symptom or a diagnosis when I filtered the data. To me, this always pointed to nervous system, dysregulation, and held emotions or trauma. My journey with anxiety has ebb and flowed. Not much gets me anxious anymore, but I used to be extremely. What has yours been like? Please share below and I'll share mine as well.🥰

I took my daughter to a Halloween event and trick or treating. I love Halloween because it's so fun to dress up and be creative. ✨🎃

Almost every morning I take my dog for a walk. This time is one of my quiet spaces when I can connect with myself and nature. My first thought today was that I get so many ideas most of the time because my nervous system is regulated and that's my baseline. I always notice when I'm not when I've allowed stress to come in because of traffic, kids, chaos, etc. But that's a choice, right? And I'm human. ☺️ Most days I choose the calm, peace, and allow life to unfold. Second thought was noticing a pattern with the leaves falling. For the most part, the leaves tend to fall 2 ways: randomly all over or systematically from the top down. I realized this reflected the way we are in life too. Some days it feels orderly just like the leaves falling from top down and some days it feels chaotic like the randomness of some of the trees. This also is reflective of the other patterns in life like our journey of healing, growing, becoming, and expanding. How are you feeling lately?

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?