As I write you this email, my browser is packed with tabs for clocks and alarm clocks. I’m ready to go back a few decades in technology’s terms and have some actual clocks around our house. 

One of my big themes this winter is tending to my energy. Energy coming in, energy going out. About once a year, I seem to have a big realization around my boundaries and go through a period of boundary healing….

There’s something about bright light and blue skies on a winter morning that really clears my mind and illuminates my heart. Winter is a time for celebrating simplicity, dormancy, and rest. The trees outside are mostly bare, the woods are quiet…

As I write this to you, I’m listening to music on headphones, locked in my bedroom in an attempt to at least muffle the incessant high-pitched squealing of the dryer. A still-functional but incredibly squeaky dryer is just one drop in my capacity cup over the past few weeks….

There is a quiet tension between myself and the land I sit upon. On a blanket, the sun on my back, crunchy leaves scattered across the browning grass, breezy yellow leaf coins twinkling above. There is a tension because the land seems to know how to let go better than I do. Here, sitting with her, is a good place to remember greater ease…

Have you noticed just how quickly the days seem to be getting shorter? The shift from summer to autumn felt instant in some way to me. As the years of my healing go by, I am drawn deeper into this cellular relationship between my body and the cycles of nature.

If I could write a list of the most healing phrases I’ve found myself saying to clients (and myself) over and over again, it’s this… you make sense.

When your emotions feel like an inconvenience, a problem, or too much to bear, read this.

This is a creative writing entry, woven with my life experience and somatic learnings. Enjoy and notice how reading this changes your felt sense of emotional regulation.

If you have your own business, there are so many little AND big decisions presented to you everyday. What decisions are sitting inside you now, unmade and constantly being weighed?

How do you choose? What happens inside when you are confronted with all of these decisions?