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picking up the pieces of myself.
Eek! I have something so special to share with you. A few weeks ago, a friend that I met at a retreat in May 2023 reached out to me to...
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Feb 10, 20254 min read


how can you use somatic inquiry?
Somatic inquiry… such a juicy topic. As we go into the holiday season I invite you into a challenge: can you notice and track, in your...
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Feb 10, 20252 min read


what I'm leaving behind in 2024.
Last week, my friend Alyson reached out to me to ask if I wanted to come back on her podcast, But What If You Did? , to record a “What...
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Feb 10, 20254 min read


coming to your senses.
"Culture wants us to come to consensus... Nature wants us to come to our senses." This framing that Martha Beck presented in a recent...
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Feb 10, 20253 min read


what a Lululemon bag taught me about authenticity.
I’ll be honest with you for a second: I’ve always cringed at the idea of allowing myself to publicly like anything “mainstream.” I’d keel...
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Jan 20, 20254 min read


all about SoulFlow™ embodiment.
“This is a story of becoming embodied, impossible to walk straight through.” —Maggie Smith (from You Could Make This Place Beautiful,...
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Jan 20, 20254 min read


snowboarding & divine timing.
On my girls’ trip this October, we recorded an episode for my friend’s podcast. We ended with a speed round of questions. You know the...
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Jan 20, 20254 min read


shine your light, darling.
“I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me.” —Tracee Ellis...
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Jan 20, 20254 min read


reflections on being a reflector, a 9, a gemini.
For the longest time, I felt like I was a thousand different people wrapped up in one body. I can chameleon and morph into whatever the...
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Jan 20, 20255 min read


calling myself out: letting fear run the show.
I'll start with an image: I don’t usually start with a photo, but it feels relevant to open this reflection with it. This aura photo was...
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Jan 20, 20254 min read


memory, memoir, and keeping our stories.
I like to call my aunt on my father’s side the “keeper of our stories.” Each time I see her, I learn something new about my family, my...
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Jan 20, 20254 min read


rewriting a narrative.
I’m thinking out loud this week with a question to myself that’s been on my mind recently: am I actually shy? I’ve spent most of my life...
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Jan 20, 20255 min read


an anecdote on embodiment.
In Wanderlust: A History of Walking, Rebecca Solnit quotes Lacy Lippard: “An Eskimo custom offers an angry person release by walking the...
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Jan 20, 20255 min read


dance in that gazebo.
As I drove to an Orangetheory class this morning, just a few miles away from my parents’ house (my childhood home), I passed a white...
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Jan 20, 20257 min read


our cosmic web of existence.
This past week was a strange one. In some ways, it felt expansive. In others, it felt eerie and just slightly off-kilter. They say that...
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Jan 20, 20257 min read


a note on community & closeness.
I’ve been thinking a lot about community. It’s a theme that’s been lingering on my mind for almost a year now and it all came together...
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Jan 20, 20257 min read


a collection of places.
When you introduce yourself to a new group, what are some of the basic things you say? Normally, you start with your name and where you...
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Jan 20, 20255 min read


autopilot.
The large glass doors open automatically for me as they sense my presence approaching. My body walks through, but a piece of my being, of...
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Aug 13, 20204 min read


lockwood ave.
I turn left from Lockwood Avenue onto Virgil Avenue and I am immediately transported into a memory. It happened as quickly as any wafting...
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Aug 13, 20205 min read


stepping out.
I have stepped out of my life today. Late two nights ago, Tuesday, Adam and I and our housemate Dom decided to pack up my Camry (not an...
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Aug 13, 20205 min read
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