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Honoring Grief in the grey
Earlier this week, I did an instagram live (which I also edited and shared on the podcast yesterday – you can listen here) where I talked about the many shades of Mother's Day grief, and how so often, unless you are clearly mourning the loss of your mother or child, the complexity of your experience can feel like it doesn't quite fit.
As someone that is going on four Mother's Days without my mom, and am not yet a mom myself, it's fascinating to see this holiday through the ‘motherless’ now.
I love to honor the grief in the grey.
Earlier this week, I did an instagram live (which I also edited and shared on the podcast yesterday – you can listen here) where I talked about the many shades of Mother's Day grief, and how so often, unless you are clearly mourning the loss of your mother or child, the complexity of your experience can feel like it doesn't quite fit.
As someone that is going on four Mother's Days without my mom, and am not yet a mom myself, it's fascinating to see this holiday through the ‘motherless’ now.
To be clear, I think the heart of the day is absolutely beautiful.
And it's strange to see my inbox flooded with sales emails for a few weeks, to see the Mother's Day Specials at restaurants I love to frequent for brunch on Sundays, to think about how I might be engaging with the day differently if my mom were alive, or if I already had children.
I love blessing the mommas in my life. And motherhood carries so many layers and levels of joy and pain, whether you are a mom or not.
When the idea of leading a Grief Flow on Mother's Day arose, I had a flash vision of everyone that carries any kind of pain (even if you also carry joy and celebration) around motherhood joining to have a sacred personal and community experience that cultivated presence, openness, and deep inner connection.
I saw this Grief Flow as the landing pad for however you wake up on Sunday, allowing you to move with your totality, in unbridled expression, so that you can then move into your day with an open heart and clear mind.
This Mother's Day Grief Flow will be a place to honor any person, concept or experience you have lost or mourned, AND it will be a place where you can move with the grey - with the feelings that feel complex, that you wish weren't there, that you can't quite make sense of, or that feel like they don't quite fit.
When I think of Mother's Day grief, I think of not only the loss of those we love and the grief-connected lives we now live without them, but also of:
The friends and clients that have miscarried or had difficult fertility journeys;
The loved ones that aren't moms, whether they want(ed) to be or not;
Those of us that want to be moms, and yet life has required tending in other ways and that season hasn't arrived yet;
The mommas that LOVE motherhood, but it has required a letting go of other areas of life, or parts of Self, they loved too;
The friends that are anticipating the death of their moms due to illness;
The friends that are expecting or new moms, and still deep in the portal of releasing their pre-child life;
The loved ones that have witnessed their children suffer;
The clients and friends that don't have the relationships they desire with their moms or children;
The loved ones that are now empty nesters;
The moms that are constantly in the juggling act of making it work, even though it doesn't feel like enough;
The friends that don't have as much time with their kiddos as they wish;
The collective pain in our world right now for the starving and endangered orphans of war.
And so many more.
Honoring the grief in the grey means allowing the nuances of our path, the unclear parts that don't perfectly fit in the black and white of having or not having, of being or not being, to be present and lovingly engaged with.
As we deepen into relationship with grief and pain, we deepen into relationship with the fullness of Life. After 20+ years of suppressing grief (and 7 of profoundly unraveling it again), I can tell you first hand that engaging with grief attunes you to greater self expression in all areas, and here is more richness in this experience than I can describe with words.
Engaging with grief attunes you to greater self expression in all areas.
The Mother's Day Grief Flow Ceremony this Sunday is about coming together in the beautiful messiness of it all, to turn toward ourselves and this day with love and openness.
Just like everything that is offered here, these 90ish minutes will lead you into greater connection with all of YOU – your vibrant heart, body, clarity, intuition, and wisdom – through the Grief Flow process.
If you feel called in any way, I invite you to join and see what is ready to unfold for you. It will be an honor to lead you.
What is a Grief Flow Ceremony?
You can read more about the origins of the Grief Flow Ceremony here.
Feeling the call to 1:1 work? Begin here.
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EP #19. Honoring the Grief in the Grey: Mother's Day Grief & How Grief Flows Were Born {Podcast}
Join me this Sunday for a special Mother's Day Grief Flow Ceremony. I created Grief Flows to be an intimate and sacred personal and community space to turn toward your grief with spaciousness and multi-dimensional support as you process and connect to the vibrancy of life, within and without.
This {Virtual} Grief Flow is for anyone experiencing grief or pain around their relationship to their mother or child, mother loss, being or becoming a mother, motherhood in general, or for anyone simply desiring a space to move with grief right now!
Full Episode Show Notes
Join The Mother's Day Grief Flow
Join me this Sunday for a special Mother's Day Grief Flow Ceremony. I created Grief Flows to be an intimate and sacred personal and community space to turn toward your grief with spaciousness and multi-dimensional support as you process and connect to the vibrancy of life, within and without.
This {Virtual} Grief Flow is for anyone experiencing grief or pain around their relationship to their mother or child, mother loss, being or becoming a mother, motherhood in general, or for anyone simply desiring a space to move with grief right now!
I invite you to join me and see what is ready to unfold for you.
Reach out via instagram message or email to share your experience with this episode! I'd love to hear what resonated with you!
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Every time I lead a Grief Flow, I am in awe of how powerful carving out specific time to allow yourself to move with grief, and for grief to move with you, is. It seems so simple, yet not something that feels easy or natural for most.
Emotions and energy connected to grief can build up..
Every time I lead a Grief Flow, I am in awe…
Every time I lead a Grief Flow, I am in awe of how powerful carving out specific time to allow yourself to move with grief, and for grief to move with you, is. It seems so simple, yet not something that feels easy or natural for most.
Emotions and energy connected to grief can build up under the surface for longer than we realize, and having a dedicated space where there is no expectation but to be, tend, release, listen, receive, and move as your body leads you is truly life changing.
When I feel a grief build-up happening in my body and consciousness, my essence and energy feel dulled and limited. My flow feels blocked in mind, heart, and body, and I feel disconnected from the river of gentle (usually) momentum that I love to float on.
When grief has been asking for time and space, for a sacred meeting with me, my body feels heavy and the tears want to fall, yet are stuck.
The moment I slow down enough to turn toward it, to let it speak through my throat and dance with my body, I begin to feel alive again.
The grief doesn't go away, but the unconscious resistance and fear to it does, and in this release, I find me again.
I feel…
my pulse,
my heart,
the love and creativity that pours from me,
the pain that visits again and all it has taught me,
the liberation that exists in allowing all of myself to be expressed and alive,
and the wisdom available through the continued digestion of what I have lived.
As I tap into my flow again, as I regain the lightness of my spirit and energy (a true hallelujah!), grief doesn't disappear or vanish, but I have deepened my relationship to it. My ability to open my heart doors to move with it has multiple exponentially.
I am reminded of the power, presence, and energy that is available to me when I say yes, and open myself to be massaged again by loss.
I am reconnected to the vibrancy of life, in me and around me.
Each Grief Flow is a transformative journey of healing and self-discovery, that allows every participant to be met exactly where they are in their walk with grief, and to receive what is needed in this moment.
Join me (on Zoom) for an enlightening Mother's Day experience that honors your journey and illuminates the path toward healing and transformation.
This Grief Flow is for anyone experiencing grief or pain around their relationship to their mother or child, mother loss, being or becoming a mother, motherhood in general, or for anyone simply desiring a space to move with their grief!
I invite you to join me and see what is ready to unfold for you.
What is a Grief Flow Ceremony?
You can read more about the origins of the Grief Flow Ceremony here.
Feeling the call to 1:1 work? Begin here.
Moving through an inner or outer shift or transition? Access the Make Space for the New Workshop for immediate support.
Tap into more medicinal nuggets on the podcast: Listen Now.
Ep #18. Release Resistance to Embrace Embodied Acceptance {Podcast}
This episode is POWERFUL! Consider it your masterclass on resistance, and how to shift into current, present energy so you can engage with your life and flow. I discuss what resistance is, where it comes from and what the energy of it is. I also discusses the importance of acknowledging anger when working through resistance, rather than bypassing it, to achieve liberation and deeper self-connection. I guide you through a process of softening towards resistance…
Full Episode Show Notes
This episode is POWERFUL! Consider it your masterclass on resistance, and how to shift into current, present energy so you can engage with your life and flow. I discuss what resistance is, where it comes from and what the energy of it is. I also discusses the importance of acknowledging anger when working through resistance, rather than bypassing it, to achieve liberation and deeper self-connection. I guide you through a process of softening towards resistance and embracing embodied acceptance, emphasizing the transformative power of engaging with the present moment and allowing the natural flow of emotions.
In this episode I teach on:
What the energy of resistance is
The ways resistance shows up in our thoughts
How resistance keeps us in our heads and disconnected from the present
Which energetic approaches actually work to dissolve resistance, and which don't
What might be underneath the resistance and how to work with it
Why simply 'not thinking about it' doesn't offer us the relief that engaging resistance openly does
What 'embodied acceptance' is, and how it's different from mental acceptance
The energetic shift that is available to us when we learn to work with ourselves in this way
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A free meditation for cultivating presence in your daily life, and coming present and current with all that’s moving within you.
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Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Ep #17. The Energetics of Emergence and Inner Spring (+ a Meditation to Connect with Your Inner Season) {Podcast}
Spring is here on the outside, but how are you feeling on the inside? Does your inner season line up with the outer season? Spring time is a dance of energies that move us forward, but that does happen without the surfacing of the fear, limiting beliefs, and limitations to be worked with and alchemized. In this episode, I explore the dueling, and non-linear energies of Emergence (the 3rd phase in the 5 Spheres of Transformation), offer wisdom, awareness and perspective shifts to support you in this season…
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Spring is here on the outside, but how are you feeling on the inside? Does your inner season line up with the outer season? Spring time is a dance of energies that move us forward, but that does happen without the surfacing of the fear, limiting beliefs, and limitations to be worked with and alchemized. In this episode, I explore the dueling, and non-linear energies of Emergence (the 3rd phase in the 5 Spheres of Transformation), offer wisdom, awareness and perspective shifts to support you in this season. We close with a meditation to help you ground into your inner season and receiving the important information that is here for you at this stage of your journey.
Listen to the 5 Spheres of Transformation episode here
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Ep #16. Cultivating Fluidity with Grief {Podcast}
The idea of being fluid with grief has been on my mind and heart for the last week. Join me in an exploration of:
What fluidity with grief is; how to meet grief and allow grief to meet us with less rigidity; the softness that fluidity invites us into and where that might be leading you; the freedom available to us through this cultivation; allowing grief to look and be different in our lives in different moments and seasons.
Full Episode Show Notes
The idea of being fluid with grief has been on my mind and heart for the last week. Join me in an exploration of:
What fluidity with grief is
How to meet grief and allow grief to meet us with less rigidity
The softness that fluidity invites us into and where that might be leading you
The freedom available to us through this cultivation
Allowing grief to look and be different in our lives in different moments and seasons.
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Ep #15. {Awaken Your Flow Day 1} Experiencing Your Body as Your Container for Flow {Podcast}
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EP #14. Creating a Conscious Relationship with SELF {Podcast}
On this episode, Ellie shares the internal reorganization process she has been through in the last 7 weeks, and how these shifts have called her to focus on the foundational of belief systems that allow for flow and transformation. Ellie speaks to the intersection of our humanity and our divinity, the beauty and energy alive in you, and the power of coming into conscious relationship with all parts of yourself and greater being…
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A new season of EllieFlow and The Fountain is emerging! The same great offerings, but with more energy and power!
On this episode, Ellie shares the internal reorganization process she has been through in the last 7 weeks, and how these shifts have called her to focus on the foundational of belief systems that allow for flow and transformation. Ellie speaks to the intersection of our humanity and our divinity, the beauty and energy alive in you, and the power of coming into conscious relationship with all parts of yourself and greater being. She explores the importance of moving with pain on the path of liberation, as well as releasing the need to force or push anything to happen. Lastly, she offers space for you to turn toward yourself and see what is here for you right now, and what foundations in your life need to be remembered, or rearranged.
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Releasing striving to embody flow
From Oct-Dec ‘23 I moved through the exposure, pruning and pulling, and then full release of yet another level and hold (!!!!! - what felt like the deepest possible) that the invasive root of striving had on my life and energy.
On a very human (survival) level: striving to achieve, to arrive, for the sake of feeling fully loved, feeling good enough, feeling secure and free of the pressure I placed on myself and had created as a defense mechanism.
On a spiritual, divine soul level: striving to BE, to take up my full space in the physical, to experience what I can FEEL is alive in my many dimensions and part of why I am here on Earth.
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From Oct-Dec ‘23 I moved through the exposure, pruning and pulling, and then full release of yet another level and hold (!!!!! - what felt like the deepest possible) that the invasive root of striving had on my life and energy.
On a very human (survival) level: striving to achieve, to arrive, for the sake of feeling fully loved, feeling good enough, feeling secure and free of the pressure I placed on myself and had created as a defense mechanism.
On a spiritual, divine soul level: striving to BE, to take up my full space in the physical, to experience what I can FEEL is alive in my many dimensions and part of why I am here on Earth.
As the core of this root system was located and pulled up, I saw how, despite years of pruning and releasing of this same energy, still, in the most subtle of forms, it lurked beneath the surface. It had wrapped itself around every new seed and planting, unconsciously moving me from flow to fear, pressure, attachment and grasping.
What would begin as a beautiful, pure, heart-connected vision and creation or expression would subtly be flipped on its head, and taken over yet again by pain, survival, and pressure.
I say subtle over and over because it was so so so subtle at this point. As subtle as a slightly fuzzy filter being placed on a stunningly clear photo, just enough to make you say, “Something feels a little off here”, but you can't quite pinpoint why.
The awareness of this striving energy, and how proliferate it was, brought me to my knees, halting me in my tracks.
While I had been peeling back the striving layers for over 5 years, something within finally said, “This is a DO NOT PASS GO moment. You cannot move forward like this.”
I questioned my business and work, yet again, my ‘callings’, my knowings - were they all simply a creation of the mind? Of the need to be or become? Despite my dedication to create and offer from wholeness, was I delusional?!
I was ready to release it all, yet again, if it wasn't actually born from the heart.
I realized the irony, that striving to be and become took me away from seeing and living fully in WHO I AM, of seeing the space I already do take up, of dwelling in the beauty of the life I lead and the power of my journey to HERE.
It took weeks of sitting in the unraveling, yet another void, of asking without answers arriving.
Weeks of mourning for the millions of little-Ellies that didn’t receive what they needed early on, and therefore still believed I must do or be a certain way to receive what I need. To be safe and compelte.
Weeks of seeing and mourning all of the corners and crevices where striving had made its way into in my life.
Weeks of mourning how striving had sucked the life force and presence from me and from the women in my lineage, and kept us all from seeing, being, receiving, accepting, loving, living. From freedom.
I began to tune into the lightning bolt like, system shocking (and then exhausting and depleting) energy that striving created - moving me into action with urgency and adrenaline, reverberating through my root in a way that then ensued shrinking and collapse.
I was called to days on end of silence, of returning to sit in the unknown and nothingness.
Of asking, “If I am not moved by, run by, fueled by this striving energy anymore, what does move and fuel me? And what does that feel like?!”
One day, I had a vision of myself, walking peacefully along a never ending coastline, calm yet energized, savoring every foot print I made in the sand – stopping to build sand castles, take naps, have picnics, chat with strangers, swim, look around in awe with the biggest smile on my face at everything behind me, beneath me, before me, beyond me.
I felt how the calm ocean next to me lapped up against the shore, carried by a never-ending current, even when it appeared as still as glass.
Just like a heartbeat maintaining life when the body is motion-less.
As mid-December arrived, I began to feel soul responses to my questionings arise. One afternoon as I clicked out of a client session, I asked myself “what does it feel like when I am with my clients?”.
The clearest answer landed instantly;
“It feels like all of me is called to the surface from the depths, like I am gifted the space to experience, lead and guide in FULLNESS - from my playful, f*bomb dropping, booty shaking silliness, to the wisest, clear-seeing, BS-cutting, Spirit sensing, warm and gentle yet radical shamanic vibes.”
All invited to this human realm to be engaged with, received, offered…together.
It became as clear as that glass-like ocean: this is EllieFlow’s gift to me. She brings all of me fourth in non-sensical, ‘free of the need to be understood’ fashion. To be embodied and offered, and to call the same fullness forth in others through each interaction.
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Living in this gift is what I am here for. It is the gift that simultaneously gives and receives, over and over and over, for infinity.
The simple delight of living here, in this, experiencing this, is ENOUGH.
And it is the basis of all that is to come.
Yet again, I have been stripped down to the core, stood there naked and bare in tears, and allowed the new to sprout up again.
Once again, I have been rebirthed.
In the last 6-weeks, my well of life-force, previously still hijacked by subtle striving energy, has been reclaimed drop by drop.
So much aliveness, awe, possibility, delight, creativity, vision pouring through, fountaining up through my system with gentle effervescence, even as I am called to walk with others through the thresholds of Self, life and death.
Like the infinite current of the ocean, lapping up against the shore, the Heart pulse guides me forward even when my body is still.
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The Frequency of Transformation (An exploration of Shifts, Openings, Awareness & Clarity)
You see, finding the words to convey the subtle yet profound impact of transformational experiences (anything and everything ranging from teachings and guidance, mentorship, dance parties, conversations, travels, massages…all of it)is an art I will be studying for the rest of my life.
As someone that has been the client or coach in hundreds of hours of transformative sessions (and other experiences thus far), I can tell you that the most impactful experiences feel impossible to capture through words.
Instead, the shifts/openings/awareness/clarity that is accessed vibrates in the body and energy field…
The opening sale on the Make Space for the New Workshop ends tonight, and these past few days I've been wishing I could bundle up its amazing energy and transformative power, and blow it to you like fairy dust.
You see, finding the words to convey the subtle yet profound impact of transformational experiences (anything and everything ranging from teachings and guidance, mentorship, dance parties, conversations, travels, massages…all of it)is an art I will be studying for the rest of my life.
As someone that has been the client or coach in hundreds of hours of transformative sessions (and other experiences thus far), I can tell you that the most impactful experiences feel impossible to capture through words.
Instead, the shifts/openings/awareness/clarity that is accessed vibrates in the body and energy field, and may take days to fully integrate before words even feel available or appropriate.
(Cut to you, clicking out of a workshop or a session with a sense of “Woah, that was (big, deep, powerful, needed – fill in the blank)”, sporting wide-eyes, a gentle smile, and a grounded lightness.)
And while words like shifts, openings, awareness, clarity, etc can seem like flashy, sparkly (and maybe even empty) marketing words, what they really mean in the world of all things EllieFlow is so much more than a string of letters.
When I use these words to describe Make Space for the New, I'm inviting you into…
Shifts:
Conscious change in perspective or relationship, to yourself or someone/something else in your life, that allows your energy flow differently, and therefore opens the door to new ways of being and living.
Enough said.
Openings:
The liberation of little (or BIG) pockets of energy that were sustaining old or inauthentic emotion, fears, stories or meaning, etc, and were subtly preventing the flow of your energy in one or more areas.
When I access new openings within mySelf and life, it often comes with a sense of relief, with the ability to breathe more deeply and fully release. There is space for something new to sprout and take form, and to consciously work with that possibility. My energy feels light instead of dense.
And sometimes after accessing these openings, I need a good nap, as there was likely a release of sorts before the opening was apparent.
Awareness:
This can truly mean so much, but in anything I guide, awareness comes down to compassionately witnessing the fullness of what is happening within and around you, without judgement.
This can be as simple as “Wow, I’m actually really tired and need some rest” or “I have a lot of anger about this still”, “That required a lot of me. I’m not sure how I made it through that like I did, but I’m really proud of myself!" or “It feels so good to _____.”
Awareness helps point to areas that still need conscious tending (a big one here is becoming aware of unmet needs!), and/or…CLARITY!
Clarity:
Crystal clear knowing or vision are some of my favorite expressions of clarity, and it can also appear as understanding of what you want or need, or of what’s happening in or around you. Clarity informs our energy and subsequent action.
This could truly be around anything, but I often see it appear as an invitation to claim a boundary, to focus energy in a certain direction, or to release something that isn’t working so that you can embrace something new that calls to you.
Landing in clarity with yourself also offers a tremendous, even if subtle, sense of liberation and spaciousness - energy that felt disorganized, scattered, or overwhelming becomes clear, offering a spaciousness and feeling of “Whoah, now all the energy that was occupied there is free to flow”, which again leads to a sense of increased capacity and mental, physical, emotional, spiritual energy.
One of my favorite questions/writing prompts I drop in at the end of the Make Space for the New Workshop is “What feels important to you now?” The right questions, asked in the right moments, can be the most powerful ushers for clarity.
I truly believe that there is a deep recalibration and renewal of energy that happens as you touch into each of these experiences, and it doesn't look the same every time! Sometimes you might feel like you need a nap or a mindful walk afterwards, and other times like you’re ready for a dance party!
I never know exactly what will happen for you when you participate fully in a 1:1 or group session, or a workshop, or even when you listen to a podcast episode (and that’s part of what I love about my job, the invitation to meet the moment fully).
I don’t have agendas about what should happen for you, or what you need to experience in this workshop, because the energy, depth and material will meet you and interact with you within the orbit of yourSelf, and where you stand, on any given day.
Let me say that again in another way:
While each specific session or experience has it’s own focus, the foundation of what I offer might feel the same - yet it will offer you something new every single time because YOU (in your many dimensions) are in constant flux and flow, therefore what is available to you each time you arrive whole-heartedly, willing to engage, is subtly (or not so) new.
There is a new invitation every.single.day (and every week, month, season, year). And part of the richness of life, and being in full relationship to it, is intentionally slowing down enough to sense, see, make space for, and then play with what is here.
Access the Make Space for the New Workshop NOW!
It is full of mini invitations for organic shifts, openings, awareness, and clarity - in whatever way you are ready for them today.
It is truly a tool for the ages, rich with presence and love, created to meet you in any season or transition, and I'm so excited it is available to you now.
Blowing you this fairy dust now, with great love…
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The ‘Make Space for The New’ Workshop is available now!
This workshop is POWERFUL!! It is a 65-minute, full-on, soul-connecting guided meditation, journaling, and intuitive movement (or creative expression) experience that I curated it to support you as you shift from one life season to the next.
As you immerse yourself in the music and connective guidance, you'll tap into gentle yet deep release that will allow you to access an incredible sense of inner refreshment, connection, energy, and clarity as you look toward the future…
Happy Friday! I am dancing in my seat as I write you because I have a really special announcement to kick off the weekend:
The Make Space for the New Workshop is now available in 'on-demand, do whenever, wherever, as many times as you'd like' form and available to access NOW.
This workshop is POWERFUL.
It is a 65-minute, full-on, soul-connecting guided meditation, journaling, and intuitive movement (or creative expression) experience that I curated it to support you as you shift from one life season to the next.
As you immerse yourself in the music and connective guidance, you'll tap into gentle yet deep release that will allow you to access an incredible sense of inner refreshment, connection, energy, and clarity as you look toward the future.
When you purchase the workshop, you'll get access to the video & audio versions, as well well as the accompanying playlist (there is an option on Spotify, and also one for free on Freefy) and journal prompts.
‘Make Space for the New’ is for you if one or all of the following resonates:
You are moving through any type of transition in your life, big or small;
You want to feel excited and hopeful about 2024, but still feel like you're processing 2023, or like you haven't quite “landed” yet;
You are anxious to take steps forward in your life but you feel stagnant, tired, or like your feet are heavy under the weight of your recent life season(s);
You are craving deep inner connection and refreshment, to feel that “AHHHHH” of relief and release (like a good massage) and “WOW” of awe wave over your being again;
You feel disconnected from yourself, and FULL of a everyone and everything else after a season of tending to others needs;
You feel ungrounded or unsettled in your current like stage or season.
Once you have it, you'll have life-long access and can repeat it whenever you want or need to!
Also, I made a 4-minute preview video for you - check it out here!
I can't wait to hear about your experience with ‘Make Space for the New’!
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Let’s Go Wisdom Foraging
I have a potent exercise for you to try today:
Pause for a moment, standing right where you are today, and imagine you are standing in the middle of the forrest of your life.
Close your eyes and take a deep breath, feeling the fresh air circulate in your lungs and body.
When you’re ready, open your eyes again. What do you see all around you?
First look down at your feet, see them connected with the Earth. Then allow your vision to expand outward…
I have a potent exercise for you to try today:
Pause for a moment, standing right where you are today, and imagine you are standing in the middle of the forrest of your life.
Close your eyes and take a deep breath, feeling the fresh air circulate in your lungs and body.
When you’re ready, open your eyes again. What do you see all around you?
First look down at your feet, see them connected with the Earth. Then allow your vision to expand outward.
Begin to take in Life; all that surrounds you on the ground floor.
Notice the plants and creatures that are alive all around you.
And as if it were a colony of mushrooms, popping up from the underground terrain, what wisdom is here to be foraged today?
What wisdom is asking to be noticed and collected, here, from this point on your path?
As we process recent seasons of life – both the painful moments and the gifts we are grateful for – and then shift our focus toward the future, it is so easy to accidentally miss this wisdom that is alive right here, right now, to be gathered.
When we do make space to ceremonially seek it, we receive the energy we invested in life back again, in a new and transmuted form. We receive it back in a way we can digest and be nourished by, to fuel our next steps.
I know I wrote the word “space” waaaaay too many times in my last writing (cringe), yet here it is again : slowing down to make space is key so that we can actually see, and then consciously collect, the wisdom that is right at our feet.
And you know what’s trippy?! I find that the act of making space for the wisdom actually liberates space within us to be able to see and feel in new ways. It brings a soft but consistent hum of energy and awe to our bellies and hearts, which has the potential to completely shift how we see life and what is to come.
The new on-domand workshop, Make Space for the New, was dreamed-up as I tapped into the call for communal, supportive nourishing, ease-full, healing space to forage the wisdom of all you have walked through in 2023 (and before), rekindle your connection to the heart, the and receive the restoration offered.
Imagine the fortification and openings this process can create for you,ALLOWING YOU TO LOOK FORWARD TO 2024 WITH HOPE, ENERGY, AND GROUNDED POTENTIAL!
Join in on the richness of release, restoration, and renewed receptivity here.
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Creating Supported Spaciousness
As we ease into 2024, there is so much to move with. While the cultural narrative is closer to a head first dive into the new year, I see January as a transition, offering space to fully process where we have been and what has brought us to this moment, here, now. In this processing, completion and release are invited organically, and space to explore the new becomes available.
It's easy to want to want to skip this step, but there is a deeply rich and recalibrating exploration available to us at this time – an exploration that allows us to meet and receive the wisdom cultivated through challenging and blissful moments, while still staying open to new possibilities.
I hope you’ve had a heart-connected entrance into the new year!
This week I have been marveling at how staying connected to the heart and body offers room for joy, excitement, and hope for what is to come, while also allowing space to tend to grief and sadness as it arises.
THIS IS A FOUNDATION OF MY LIFE AND WORK, AND YET EVERY TIME I PALPABLY EXPERIENCE IT AGAIN, IT FILLS ME WITH AWE.
As we ease into 2024, there is so much to move with. While the cultural narrative is closer to a head first dive into the new year, I see January as a transition, offering space to fully process where we have been and what has brought us to this moment, here, now. In this processing, completion and release are invited organically, and space to explore the new becomes available.
It's easy to want to want to skip this step, but there is a deeply rich and recalibrating exploration available to us at this time – an exploration that allows us to meet and receive the wisdom cultivated through challenging and blissful moments, while still staying open to new possibilities.
What is needed to tap in to this wellspring of renewal?
Space…
SPACE TO FEEL.
SPACE TO LET GO.
SPACE TO CRY.
SPACE TO BE.
SPACE TO REST.
SPACE FOR STILLNESS.
SPACE TO YEARN AND DREAM.
SPACE TO EXPERIENCE DESIRE.
SPACE TO LISTEN.
SPACE TO RECEIVE.
SPACE TO CREATE.
SPACE TO NOURISH.
SPACE TO RECOGNIZE OURSELVES AND OTHERS.
SPACE TO BE WITNESSED.
SPACE TO BE IN THE DEEPLY RICH PROCESS OF ON-GOING TRANSFORMATION.
SPACE TO OBSERVE, AWE AND DELIGHT IN THE PATH AND SHIFTS IN ENERGY, IN US AND AROUND US.
SPACE TO DANCE IN THE OPENINGS AND CLARITY THAT COME WHEN WE SLOW DOWN ENOUGH TO CONNECT.
SPACE TO ASK THE QUESTIONS THAT OPEN THE DOORS OF KNOWING - SO THAT WE CAN HEAR THE SOUL SPEAK AGAIN.
Ohh that sweet soul-singing that comes through when there is space to hear it – my absolute favorite to experience and witness. It brings me to tears every time.
May it be a year of making space for new ways of being and living while honoring every step of your path so far with tremendous reverence.
May it be a year of saying YES to you - to the parts of your deep inner life that are crying out for tending and nourishment.
This year, may your soul sing with the living hope and new creation that brews within.
I look forward to walking and blossoming with you.
ALL OF YOU IS WELCOME HERE, ALWAYS.
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Ep #13. How to Sit with Sadness & Deep Emotions (Teaching + Guided Practice) {Podcast}
In this episode I offer supportive teachings, reflections, and guided practice to support you in sitting with what is present and alive deep within in order to promote processing and restoration.
This will also allow the experience to ground you into listening and moving from your greater being instead of purely from intellect (the mind). At the beginning I explore the questions: "What does it actually mean to sit with your sadness or pain?!" and then offer guidance (almost like a meditation), using the episode as a container to support you, to help you…
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In this episode I offer supportive teachings, reflections, and guided practice to support you in sitting with what is present and alive deep within in order to promote processing and restoration. This will also allow the experience to ground you into listening and moving from your greater being instead of purely from intellect (the mind).
At the beginning I explore the questions: "What does it actually mean to sit with your sadness or pain?!" and then offer guidance (almost like a meditation), using the episode as a container to support you, to help you:
Slow down and ground your energy
Connect with and explore safety
Understand emotion from an energetic perspective
Become an neutral and curious observer
Growing your capacity to feel
Engage your body for gentle primal release
Reap the rich benefits of the "after"
This is part one, I had a lot more to say to there is a part 2 coming in the next few days!
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EP #12. Tap into the Wellspring of Vitality and Create Momentum with Fluid Structure (+ Personal Reflections from the Void){Podcast}
In this episode I share about the process of the last few months and reflections from a recent void space I dipped into.
I also share:
Insights and wisdom for moving through this time of year, and opening to the transition that is upon us;
Deepening into the call to connect with the soft hum of vitality that is available to us all amidst times of inner or outer winter;
Tools for creating 'fluid structure' in seasons of transitions, so that we may be carried forward with gentle momentum instead of becoming weighed down by dullness or heaviness…
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I am so happy to be back with you! In this episode I share about the process of the last few months and reflections from a recent void space I dipped into.
I also share:
Insights and wisdom for moving through this time of year, and opening to the transition that is upon us;
Deepening into the call to connect with the soft hum of vitality that is available to us all amidst times of inner or outer winter;
Tools for creating 'fluid structure' in seasons of transitions, so that we may be carried forward with gentle momentum instead of becoming weighed down by dullness or heaviness;
That my pricing (is lower) and options for working with me have expanded- check them out here if you're interested in working together;
I am hosting a Community Workshop on January 9th to support you in fully releasing 2023 and opening to the energy of 2024.
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EP #11. Attuning to Your Inner Fountain: A Journey from Drained to Recharged {Podcast}
Feeling drained and disconnected?
Join me in this episode as we explore the process of reconnecting to our greater beings amidst overwhelm and living within the current energetic atmosphere.
I speak to the disconnection from Self that I'm sensing all around us as we navigate life right now, what this disconnection looks like and feels like in my life, how we avoid what we most need when we are drained, and how the highlighted uncertainty is bring up deep fears and calling us into more conscious connection.
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Feeling drained and disconnected? I sure was last week!
Join me in this episode as we explore the process of reconnecting to our greater beings amidst overwhelm and living within the current energetic atmosphere.
I speak to the disconnection from Self that I'm sensing all around us as we navigate life right now, what this disconnection looks like and feels like in my life, how we avoid what we most need when we are drained, and how the highlighted uncertainty is bring up deep fears and calling us into more conscious connection.
I also introduce the journey from doing to being, and speak to the tenants of flow, and how they relate. In the second half of the episode I lead a self-inquiry and reconnection practice to help you shift.
In this episode we'll explore:
Feeling full of energy that isn't authentic, and how it can stifle our energy and create disconnection
The challenge of carving out space for connection when feeling drained or overwhelmed
Doing vs. being and evolving from a focus on doing and perfectionism to being and presence
Connecting your body and needs, and tuning into your pulse as a reminder of being alive
Choosing to sit with and be with pain as a liberating experience
Exploring the dance of uncertainty and examining fears, stories, and beliefs it highlights within oneself
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EP #10. Bending Toward Life After Loss with Laura Thomas: Rock Bottoms in Grief, Reconnecting with the Core Self, and Mourning Life Seasons {Podcast}
This is such a special episode and raw conversation on reclaiming our relationship to Self and Life after loss with my friend, Laura Thomas. Laura and I met in college and then reconnected years later amidst our evolving grief journeys. In this conversation (which we recorded in May 2023), we both reflect on grief and she shares her story of self discovery and self-love, catapulted by her brother's death to suicide in her early 20's. Her story perfectly exemplifies what it means to say and live out, "I am willing, even though I am scared", and the wisdom she embodies through her 'born through grief' journey is deeply touching and encouraging.
Full Episode Show Notes
This is such a special episode and raw conversation on reclaiming our relationship to Self and Life after loss with my friend, Laura Thomas.
Laura and I met in college and then reconnected years later amidst our evolving grief journeys. In this conversation (which we recorded in May 2023), we both reflect on grief and she shares her story of self discovery and self-love, catapulted by her brother's death to suicide in her early 20's. Her story perfectly exemplifies what it means to say and live out, "I am willing, even though I am scared", and the wisdom she embodies through her 'born through grief' journey is deeply touching and encouraging.
Content Warning: Depression, Mental Break and Suicide
Laura Thomas is a writer, TEDx speaker, and the founder of Next Level Story, where she is a professional editor and ghostwriter. After graduating, Laura wrote, produced, and performed a one-women play about her brother’s loss to suicide, which she toured around the U.S., hosting discussions on grief and healing. Her first book, The Magic of Well-Being: A Modern Guide to Lasting Happiness, distills masterful advice for living a better life, and her upcoming memoir shares her evolving journey with loss. She works with aspiring authors to overcome internal barriers and experience the power of telling their story.
You can connect with Laura on Instagram here.
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EP #9. Born Through Grief: Navigating the Ripples of Loss as You Embrace the Surrender and Growth {Podcast}
In this episode I am sharing the energy of the 'Born Through Grief Journey'. I speak to the origins of the phrase, what it means in our lives, the initiation that it entails, and its undeniable power in our lives when we say "Yes, I am afraid but willing" to grief and loss portals and initiations.
Full Episode Show Notes
In this episode I am sharing the energy of the 'Born Through Grief Journey'. I speak to the origins of the phrase, what it means in our lives, the initiation that it entails, and its undeniable power in our lives when we say "Yes, I am afraid but willing" to grief and loss portals and initiations.
I specifically cover:
An introduction to the concept of "born through grief"
Personal experiences and insights related to the transformative journey of grief
The choiceless choice of surrendering to the pain of loss
The atomic bomb analogy for loss and the disruption and transformation it brings
Navigating through the ripples and waves of grief
Each ripple as an opportunity for growth and embracing the new version of oneself
The unique nature and duration of the "born through grief" journey
Surrendering to the path and being present with the rawness and fragility of grief
Living authentically in the midst of grief and defying societal expectations
The importance of allowing the journey to take the time it needs and evolving through the process
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EP #8. A Reflection + Breath Practice to Return to Your Heart, Make Space for Pain, and Move From Authenticity {Podcast}
This episode is all about bringing a conscious moment of welcoming to the grief and pain that is alive in ourselves and the world, while also centering in the heart, releasing energy that isn't our own, and moving with the energy that IS our own. I lead you in a short breath practice that I call the Fountain Breath, to help you do this. It is calming, cleansing, and centering.
Full Episode Show Notes
This episode is all about bringing a conscious moment of welcoming to the grief and pain that is alive in ourselves and the world, while also centering in the heart, releasing energy that isn't our own, and moving with the energy that IS our own. I lead you in a short breath practice that I call the Fountain Breath, to help you do this. It is calming, cleansing, and centering.
If you would like to move with music during this time, try out the Grief Flow October Playlist that I used in this week's workshop. It is perfect for a 20 minute time of release or meditation.
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