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THE BLOG
As a woman on her own spiritual journey, mom, counsellor, holistic nutritionist, and lifestyle coach - this is where I share thoughts, stories, tools, and all my favourite recipes. Stay tuned as this collection expands.
Body Talk
It is so easy to get wrapped up in our all consuming day-to-day lives, to keep pushing and hustling our way to worthiness. This experience is fueled by fear and perpetuates a state of fight or flight in our nervous systems, communicating a lack of safety in our bodies. When we are caught up in this cycle we feel increasingly disconnected from our body, and for many of us we have never known what connection to our body actually feels like. Our mind, although working hard to keep us safe and out of harms way, leads this mission and unfortunately causes us to disengage, cutting us off from our body.
Moving Towards Aligned Motherhood
From navigating those prenatal or early postpartum days to juggling the household, daycare drop offs, school activities and everything else in between, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed, disconnected and lose sight of ourselves as women.
As we run on auto-pilot for everyone else, as we are so naturally inclined to do as Mamas, some other things are at play behind the scenes. As I have shared previously in- You can Stop Hustling and Still Matter, this may occur because we are used to the nature of the hustle, the grind and so in general have a hard time slowing down and derive our worth from doing. For a lot of us, the more we do, achieve or boxes we check, the better we feel about ourselves. Although this satisfaction doesn’t last long because we will inevitably need to keep doing or chasing the next thing. What we do, including how we are of service to others may be so intimately tied to our worth- and ultimately how we mother.
What’s Wrong with Fixing How we Feel?
How can we be present with what feels so unbearably hard?
How can we coexist with our big feelings when everything in us is asking for our avoidance? This is our typical and very valid reaction when faced with any kind of adversity or discomfort. Our evolved human mind is hardwired to help us problem solve, ruminate, worry, fix, to keep us safe, comfortable and bottom line- survive. Our mind is crazy powerful and I am so grateful for the protection it aims to provide. However, there is a pitfall with this design I wish to highlight when it comes to FEELING.
You can Stop Hustling and Still Matter
Let’s face it. Being or doing “better” in today’s culture always comes with that underlying expectation to do MORE.
The words Doing and More = Better. Who even decided this for us? Our North American patriarchal culture that’s who. What’s interesting is that when we reach capacity and feel we cannot possibly take on any more, whether it be at work, or for our kids and family, the immediate response is to judge, beat ourselves up and assume this means we are failing at life. That we can’t handle it all, and so there must be something wrong with us. But is there?
What is Authenticity??
A trait, a value, a way of living?
The term authenticity can be considered a few different ways. A trait or characteristic to describe who we are or who we are not, a value that we strive to fulfill, and as a way to identify how we think, feel and act in the world.
What Happened When I Stopped Fixing and Started Feeling
For years I struggled to sit with my emotions - this is how I got where I am today.