That was me this morning.

I was driving to meet family for a holiday breakfast about an hour away. The roads were covered in snow – from last night’s storm – and the visibility wasn’t great.

I missed a few turns, and it felt like I was driving in circles as the GPS tried to autocorrect. Panic set in, and my heart rate picked up. But before i could go too far into story, I paused and reset knowing I would be okay.

Here's the cool part - the reset came from something I did this morning before I ever left the house.

It's really quite remarkable because as you know I had anxiety most of my life. But these practices have been a game changer. They gently shift our emotional patterns, so those patterns don’t keep running the show.

And because I want everyone to know about it, I created a 7-week journey called Process What You Feel to Heal where we work with five core emotional patterns of worry, fear, anger, sadness and that need to push through or pretend that shape how we think, feel, and move through life.

The 7-week journey begins in late January. You can learn more here.

If you choose to say yes to yourself before the end of the year, I’ve included a couple of things to help you ease in — $100 off and January’s workshop, Cultivating Joy, at no additional cost.

And about that drive to the restaurant, I arrived five minutes early. As I was walking through the snowy parking lot, an aha hit me:

Our mind would rather have an answer than sit in the ambiguity of not knowing. In other words, my mind would rather tell me I don’t know what I’m doing, or I’ll never get there than sit in the discomfort of not knowing what will happen next.

It’s very subtle but there is a difference.

Anxiety avoids uncertainty. It needs an answer, any answer. But often that answer sends us further into story. Further into stress.

Have you ever noticed this in yourself? I'd love to know. You can connect with me here on IG.

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Today is the anniversary of my dad's death - December 4th. And I have felt off all day long - only I didn't make the connection until about 20 minutes ago. I may feel fine mentally, but physically my body feels the loss. It's really quiet incredible.

In this episode, I share a sweet story about how my dad helped me in difficult time and also how we need to meet ourselves wherever we are at. Grief shows up differently at different times for all of us. It might catch us off guard, like it today for me. Or it might be obvious and heavy all the time. Wherever you are, you get to decide what's best for you.

In this episode, I share about the workshop I'm teaching on 12/11 - next Thursday. called Managing Grief in the Holidays. You can learn more here.

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Some days even coming up with what you’re grateful for feels like too much effort. If that’s you today - listen to this.

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Thanksgiving holds so many feelings — missing and love, joy and sadness, longing and gratitude. I created this Thanksgiving meditation to help you feel supported, grounded, and held in whatever rises for you.

Inside, you'll be guided through gentle breath, presence, and a reminder of the love and support that surrounds you, both visible and invisible.

And if this meditation brings you a little peace today, and you’d like more guided tools to help you nurture and support yourself through the holiday season, I'm teaching a workshop on Managing Grief in the Holidays on 12/11.
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Have you ever thought about it? It's okay to admit. It's actually very freeing and we give ourselves a break. We don't have to figure everything out. Admitting we sometimes get tired of being with ourselves is a form of disassociation - in a good way. Once we recognize it and admit it to ourselves, we don't have to escape via distraction. We can choose that direction if we want to. But we don't have to go unconscious because we can't figure ourselves out.

Give it a listen and I'd love your feedback. You can reach me via instagram. Here's the link.

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So much of the judgement we receive comes from our own head. In this episode, I recorded while driving—because I just had to share it—I explain how when we're in the present moment - fully in the present, we can be mindful and kinder to ourselves. It's when we go unconscious, that a younger version of us starts to judge our actions.

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Not the space in your home but the space in your mind, in your schedule. Do you give yourself a chance to ponder, explore or dream? Do you allow yourself to sit and do nothing and simply receive the gifts from God.

Or do you leave just enough time to get somewhere so you can do one more thing? I'm not judging you. I do this too. But after meditating one morning, I had the aha what if I don't fill up all the space.

So much of our stress is self-induced. Leaving too late, multi-tasking, watching hours of Netflix so we don't have to feel.

What if you create pockets of time where you do nothing? I'm going to take my own advice and do this 3x a day.

Care to join me? Don't think you have time? I bet you have three minutes. Start with one minute each time.

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What if you don't have to understand?

Our minds want to make sense of everything - that's what minds do. But sometimes we don't have to understand.

In this episode, I share how my not needing to understand helped me in a stressful situation.

Our mind chases answers - any answers - to find a solution. But our mind can only draw answers from our past or lack - our past experiences or what can go wrong.

So how do we find the truth? By dropping down into our heart - in this episode I teach you how to draw answers from your heart.

If you'd like the written form, I wrote a blog post on this. If you'd like me to send it to you, please let me know here.

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