Self-Care
Finding Your Voice
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“There is no greater agony than
bearing an untold story inside you.”
~~ Maya Angelou
Greetings to all my precious people!
Last month on Mother’s Day, I wrote about the first voice you ever heard: your mother’s voice.
Today, I’m writing about the voice she gave you. Not just the sound of your voice (though that’s part of it). But the POWER of your voice. The capacity to name what you see, speak what you know, call things by their true names, say NO and mean it, say YES and claim it, take up sonic space in the world.
Your mother gave you this. Through her body. Through her voice teaching you language. Through the vocal cords she grew inside you.
And then—over years of conditioning—you learned to silence it. continue reading
Living from Home: The Practice of Being Where We Are
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“Consider what your life would look like
if you lived more loyal to your dreams …
and less influenced by your fears.”
— Tara Mohr, Playing Big
Greetings to all my precious people!!
For two months we’ve been exploring homesickness.
The ache. The exile. The longing for something you can barely name but KNOW is real.
And now, after eight weeks of WAKING UP, REMEMBERING, RETURNING, I have the final truth to share:
You’re already home. You always were.
The work is not GETTING there. The work is REMEMBERING you never left.
Coherence is the Medicine
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“What would the world look like if
we were truly awakened
to the depths of our healing potential?
We would remember we’re wired to heal.”
~~ Dr. Shamini Jain
Greetings to all my precious people!
I’m going to tell you the truth about why your wellness routine isn’t working.
Not because you’re doing it wrong. Not because you need more discipline.
Because you’re missing the one ingredient that makes everything else work:
COHERENCE.
What You’ve Been Trying
Let me guess. You’ve done some version of this:
✅ Clean eating (organic, no sugar, no gluten)
✅ Supplements (hundreds of dollars worth)
✅ Exercise (yoga, Pilates, walking, strength training)
✅ Sleep hygiene (magnesium, blue blockers, perfect routine)
✅ Stress management (meditation apps, breathwork, therapy)
✅ Hormonal support (herbs, adaptogens, bio-identical)
And yet.
You still feel:
- Exhausted despite 8 hours sleep
- Anxious despite meditation
- Symptomatic despite supplements
- Off despite doing “all the right things”
Why?
Because sustained wellness doesn’t come from ADDING more interventions.
It comes from creating COHERENCE in the system you already have.
Listening Deeply: The Practice of Return
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“Deep within each of us is a space of perfection, beauty, innocence and light
that cannot be seen with the eyes but can only be FELT.”
~~ Dr. Seema Khaneja, “I am Pure Soul”
Greetings to all my precious people!
This Sunday celebrates Mother’s Day. And whether your relationship with your mother is beautiful, complicated, painful, or all of the above—there’s one thing undeniably true: Her voice was the first voice you ever heard.
Before you were born, you heard her speaking through the womb—singing, laughing, crying. Her voice taught you that voices MATTER. That sound carries meaning. That being heard is connection. And then over the years, you learned some voices get listened to while others get dismissed. You learned which voice to use to be safe, and which voice to silence.
But deep inside, you still remember the FIRST voice. The one that spoke before conditioning. That voice? That’s your Inner Mentor.
This Mother’s Day, we’re reclaiming her.
Two voices still live inside you.
One keeps you exiled from home. One guides you back.
The question is: Which one are you listening to?
The BodyMind is One System
“What we do, think, feel, eat, buy and expose ourselves to,
affects our bodies, minds, spirits, and relationships.
From there, we can alter things to improve our lives.”
— Dr. Claudia Welch
Greetings to all my precious people!
Before we had a body of our own, we lived inside our mother’s body.
Her heartbeat was our first rhythm.
Her breath was our first oxygen.
Her blood was our first nourishment.
The body-mind connection isn’t something we need to learn. It’s something we’re BORN knowing. Because the first body we ever experienced taught us: Bodies are not separate from life. Bodies ARE life.
Western medicine taught us to separate:
Body from mind.
Physical from emotional.
Symptoms from soul.
Matter from spirit.
But what if that separation was always an illusion?
What if body-mind is ONE system, always has been, and the division we created is what keeps us exiled from home?
