What if the most radical thing you could do right now is go back to the very basics?

We are living through a time unlike any other and I believe the way through it isn't to do more, push harder, or figure it all out. It's to breathe. To drink water. To show up. One day at a time.

Welcome back to Here We Are — and welcome to Season 3. I am so thrilled to be back, and I've been thinking a lot about what this season needed to be. After everything we've been moving through, individually, collectively, as a human family, the answer kept coming back to the same thing: basics.

As a massage therapist and yoga teacher, I see it every single day. People walk through my door feeling it in their bodies, in their bones — the weight of this unprecedented time. And the question I get asked more than any other is: how do I keep going? 

So this season, that's exactly what we're going to explore together. Back to basics. Staying the course. Through it all.

Key Themes + Takeaways

We are in a historically significant and deeply uncomfortable time and that calls for radical simplicity, not complexity.

Taking care of yourself first isn't selfish. It's how you show up for your community, your family, and the world.

Presence is a practice. Our minds want to run to the future or the past but coming back to right now, even when it's hard to look at, is where healing lives.

How we live one day is how we live our lives. The smallest choices, a glass of water, a breath, a walk outside — add up to everything.

The opposite of depression is expression. Knowing what makes you feel alive and putting that into the world matters more now than ever.

Grief is real and it's everywhere right now. Naming it, the loss of jobs, of ways of life, of an older world, is part of moving through it.

There is a lot of light. In people, in the youth, in communities. We just have to look for it.

Our Favorite Quotes

"Simple things can make the most profound impact."

"How we live one day is how we live our lives."

"The opposite of depression is expression."

"As soon as we can fill ourselves with health, wellness, delicious food, hydration — the common basics — once those are met, it is much easier to be a human."

"If you're alive at this time, you have it in you to carry forth."

Chapter Markers

0:22 — Welcome Back

0:45 — Why This Season Is About Going Back to Basics 

2:22 — What I Hear Every Day as a Massage Therapist 

4:04 — The Fast-Paced Mind and the Practice of Presence 

5:20 — The Capacity to Pivot as a Human Family 

7:16 — A Preview of Season 3 Guests and Topics 

21:14 — Boredom, Foundations, and the Art of Noticing

Your Turn

This week's reflection:

"What is one basic thing — a breath, a glass of water, a moment outside — that you can come back to today? And what does your body need you to notice right now?"

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