“There is a dynamic reciprocity between the receptive and the active, each reflecting the other, and at the centre between them is our agency. Choice, and the lucidity to make choices, is where the real magic lies." - Toko-pa Turner, Belonging I've been reading the book Your Attention is Sacred - Except on Social Media by Amelia Hruby. I got the book a while ago to support Amelia's choice to self-publish outside of the Amazon monopolies and hadn't read it yet (mostly because

I am not a failure because my body has needs. Those are the words that brought tears to my eyes during a recent therapy session. I didn’t realize I needed to hear myself say them. It was tough to recognize that while I beautifully and gently hold that truth for the people whose healing journeys I support, I wasn’t holding it for myself. Bodies are not broken. We don’t need fixing. Our bodies want and deserve attention, they need to be tended to. They tell us about their needs

It has been quite a while since I have sent an email, and I am realizing that I was letting perfectionism get in the way. I received some lovely feedback and reflections on my more recent newsletters, which felt so affirming! Then, as I was thinking about what I wanted to share in upcoming newsletters I felt myself collapsing into the idea that they all had to be AWESOME in order to go out. As you can probably imagine, that didn’t feel good. For me, when I start to pull into

Your body loves you and is always taking care of you. Instead of just reading on, I’d like to invite you to take a moment to really BE with this message: Your body loves you, and is always taking care of you. If it feels available to do so, please sit with this for a moment. Close your eyes or soften your gaze, and notice if and how your body shifts as you connect with this truth: Your body loves you and is always taking care of you. Your body takes care of you in many ways.