My Hip, My Heart: How Relationship Patterns Live in the Body
Stop asking directions. This is something I’ve been walking with lately—and by walking, I mean limping, because my hip has been hurting, which I will weave in. I recently noticed an old pattern of mine get reawakened by this breakup: a struggle with trusting myself. When Relationship Patterns Override Inner Knowing I was sharing with a good friend about this old tendency to second-guess my knowing, to assume others know better. Whether in a relationship, a learning environ
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Do You Dare? Moving Beyond Anxious Attachment
"May you dare to enter into relationship with what is both unknowable and excruciatingly intimate.” -Sadee Whip What It Means to Move Through Anxious Attachment My friend Whitney Ullom shared this quote in her Mother Fire Circle last Sunday. (Highly recommend) It encapsulates so much of what I am often reckoning with. How deeply I care about this BODY work, and how much it matters to me to dare. This work I offer has the potential to drastically change lives and the world.
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Fear of Change: If Not Now, When?
We were given a language that we lost along the way. The language of the body. Heat, sweat, tingles, rushes up our arms, waves rolling from our bellies. This language of life. Freedom is found in the fluency of it. Fear of Change and the Language of the Body When we can allow the waves of emotional energy fully in our bodies, we become more alive, more free with how we are and who we are. It’s not just a beautiful idea. It’s tangible, real, physical, and in your bo
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