Our culture encourages us to move at a fast pace, and pushes us to accomplish, to “become somebody.” We all know this, but it’s hard not to get caught in the flow of what is supposed to be normal, so we put a lot of pressure on our bodies, living our days in a constant game of catch up and to-do lists! Our nervous systems are overloaded making us suffer from continuous surges of anxiety. We want the “sensation” of fear to go away so that we can feel better, but we don’t even know where to begin.
Read MoreWow, what a year it has been! I can not believe we are flowing into another summer season AND I am celebrating the first year of opening my healing studio in Central Square, Cambridge!
Read MoreRight in this moment you are exactly who you need to be. All your choices and all your life experience has forged a path up until this point. All the hurt, all the stumbling, all the darkness as well as all the light, the love and joy has made you perfectly YOU.
Read MoreThis human process is intense but is also incredible if we look at it from a certain point of view.
The way that we are right now is the way that we have NEEDED to be up until this very moment. Literally. There is nothing wrong with that. These internal programs have created survival habits in us that have kept us functional in the environment we were raised. Isn’t that amazing? How beautifully strong and innately intelligent we are.
Then our life path pivots or we have a big aha moment (or two or ten) that wakes us up inside! It could come from an internal struggle or an event that pushes us to say, “Hey wait, this doesn’t work for me anymore. I want a new way of being in the world.”
That is our moment of choice!
Read MoreI had the honor of being interviewed on Sustaining Creativity Podcast last night (episode coming out on February 15th). The conversation centered around how creativity shows up in my life and how I use it in my daily and it really got me thinking.
For me, it started out in childhood as art and dance and performing, but in my early life, I started realizing it was just the way I wanted to live my life. Through my work in the healing arts and a deep dive with meditation and breathwork, I realize my whole life is my creation.
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