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Today's episode is all about why I'm obsessed with breathing. It's what keeps us alive to start with, so there's that. 

I realized it’s been a while since I’ve talked about the tools we use… 

Breathwork is my anchor, it’s my go to with myself and when I work with clients. It’s the most direct line of communication we have to our autonomic nervous system and directly impacts our health (both physical and mental), and state of being. The best part is that we can affect change in these areas just by changing how we are breathing! 

Learning to control the breath is one of the most powerful neurohacks for managing stress, improving concentration and overall health available to you and it’s free

By managing how we breathe we can balance our internal state, activate our vagus nerve and signal our rest and digest to activate. It’s a free resource that is never ending and always available. 

The goal with breathing techniques is to be able to turn inward for solutions and use the resources we have instead of reaching outward for external means (drugs, numbing, doctor etc)

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Today's episode we're talking about how to use the BBR tools to create some space. Using your brain, body, and your breath to connect the two you can cultivate the tools you need to clear out a little bit of the overwhelm and stress to look into deeper layers.

Until we can clear a little bit of space and calm the existing anxiety and chaos that is consuming our attention and focus we can't get to the root source of the stress.

... and if we're never addressing the root cause, the thing that is generating so much of our stress, the immediate relief can only help so much.

So, we've got to look at our internal environment. We have to look at the patterns of shame, blame, and judgement.  We have to look at the negative thought loops and fixed mindset that are holding us in a space that perpetuates the stress and anxiety.

This is the hard work, but it is the work that leads to healing and creating a life and version of yourself that you actually want to live in.

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Today's episode I'm sharing my last couple of weeks with you and how I've witnessed my growth and my old patterns creeping up.

There's been a lot of travel, visiting family and friends and it's been totally outside of my usual routine. I hadn't been using my tools of breathwork, journaling, meditating and creating space to buffer the stress and I can feel it.

Being able to recognize my growth through various experiences of change in behavior and how certain things affected me as well as seeing some old patterns creep back up and how I dealt with that differently than I have in the past has been a good reminder of a couple of things.

The first reminder, growth isn't linear. As much as we want it to be, it's not, it's a constant up and down and back and forth. Reminder number two, the tools can't help you if you're not using them!

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Today's episode we're talking about changing your brain.

Yes, it's possible and you're actually doing it all the time. I heard someone on social media say that you can't change your brain and aside from that they have fantastic content, very insightful and useful but it reminded me that I'm here to share these bits of knowledge that aren't as common.

You can't manage or control something you don't understand even a little.  

The brain has always had a certain mystery about it, mostly because there is still more of what we don't know than what we do.

So, we're talking brain changing and how to be intentional about how you are changing your brain because that affects how you live in your body and in the world.

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Today's episode is based on  this post I shared  on Instagram and wanted to expand a bit here where I have more space and time to talk about all the things...

What  do you identify yourself with?

What shapes our identities?

Is an identity something that changes?

These are questions we explore here today.

Our actions shape our habits and those shape how we see ourselves and how the world sees us. Our identity is based on the things that we do and we do the things that we believe people like us do...

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Hello there,

Today's episode we're talking the mind/body connection or the brain/body connection. There are debates about using brain and mind interchangeably and I see validity in those arguments but for the purpose of today's episode I think it's going to be ok if we use both terms.

So, we're talking about how your internal environment is created by your thoughts, how they affect the body and your overall health, that means both mental and physical.

We're also getting into why there is so much resistance to acknowledging this fact or just that mental health exists and is a very real component to your life and with that I give you my two pennies on what this resistance to acknowledge various aspects of ourselves signifies as a society as a whole.

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As promised this is the quote I posted from the book Neurosculpting  by Lisa Wimberger


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It doesn't have to be complicated... but that's how we like it.

We have a tendency to overlook the basic, fundamentals for more complicated approaches to solve our problems. Bigger is not  better, more is not  better, more complicated is not better... what works is better.

The more complicated something is the more moving pieces you're dealing with and that leaves the door open for all kinds of uncertainty which is the worst thing for your brain and nervous system.

Keep things simple and lower the barrier of entry for yourself.  Keep it simple and master the fundamentals. I know this can get boring but if you want to take out the overwhelm and the opportunities for unmet expectations and stress this is your key.

It doesn't have to be complicated to be helpful. It doesn't have to be complicated to solve your problem.

Where might you be overlooking a solution to your problem because you're looking for something shinier?

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I had a moment of stress that reminded me of how far I've come and that this journey to self-development and learning to create the person and life that feels good.

I had a bit of stress pop up for me and I saw an immediate reaction that I haven't seen in a long time. I walk you through how I turned this moment into an opportunity to celebrate my growth and use the tools I've cultivated and practiced instead of choosing a shame spiral.

The key am learning over and over again is that the process is the goal. The end result can only come from the process and so... that my friend needs to be the focus.

It's never about living a stress free perfectly calm life, because that doesn't exist. It's about learning to respond instead of react.

It's about learning to pause and notice your reaction and give yourself the time to redirect.

There's that old saying "wherever you go, there you are" and that applies to all things. The work you're doing to manage your internal state will manifest in your external environment as you continue to shift.

This doesn't happen all at once and it's really tempting to focus on the question "are we there yet?" ... and that's when we have to focus on the process being the goal. Showing up is the goal.

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Hello and welcome.

Today I'm addressing a question that I heard  that really stuck with me and I think it's worth a little investigation.

This question is, "Why do you have more passion for your past than your future?" Bam. That question hit me hard when I heard it and I've been thinking about it for a couple weeks and it keeps popping into my head as I work with clients.

If you're focused on things that have already happened you're wasting energy that you could be spending to create what you want in this moment moving forward.

I was stuck in this space for a long time wanting to prove that I wasn't just a product of my environment,  the circumstances I grew up in, and the things that happened to me. I spent so much of my time and energy focusing on how I wasn't what I had come from... I was stuck in that place. That is where I lived.

Although our lived experiences shape us and how we navigate the world, we have the opportunity in each moment to choose to pivot in a new direction.  This means confronting all of our existing patterns of thought and behavior and assessing which ones are useful to the life we want to be living, and how we want to be in the world.

Is this easy? Absolutely not. It's hard AF.   

Is it worth it? Absolutely. Invaluable. 


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Today's episode I'm sharing something that's a bit vulnerable for me.

I occasionally have seizures, I never know when they will show up, how long they will stay or what to expect.

This past weekend I had a seizure that was scary and I share that experience with you and what I gained from it.

When you don't know what to do, do what you know how, control the controllable. That's you, the way you respond, what you choose to focus your energy and attention on.

No one is coming to save any of us from the scary, uncomfortable, or difficult things in our lives. We have to learn to  save ourselves and we do that by never giving up.

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