Sparked!

The brain needs to rest. I saw this saying on a hobbit-style hut while visiting a retreat center in the Sacred Valley of Peru. It was a reminder to us “busy humans” to give it a rest, slow it down, shut it down. It’s been many years after first seeing this reminder, and it still makes me pause. In the episode I share the story behind the hut, the medicine man and why this reminder is for everyone.

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What is your untapped potential? Do you know? Are you acknowledging what is ready to wake up in you? Most do not. We shove down our intuition. We ignore the impulses to express ourselves. As a result we feel anxious, agitated or downright sad. The good news is that simply listening to those quiet whispers begins to awaken that untapped potential in you that is ready to emerge.

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There is only one of you. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. These are the words of the infamous choreographer, Martha Graham. She encourages us to remember that our expression is unique.

Full quote by Martha Graham.:
There is a vitality, a life force, and energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost.

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The infamous passage, “The Man in the Arena,” by Theodore Roosevelt has hugely impacted my life. Tune into this quick hit to learn more about how these words are guiding me into action. And, how they can help you too.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

― Theodore Roosevelt

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Embrace the suck is a common phrase used by the Navy Seals. It’s a reminder to lean into suffering (instead of pushing it away). Embracing the suck is a catchy turn of words to encourage us to get comfortable being uncomfortable. While most of us will never find ourselves on a battlefield, we can learn from our special forces how to thrive in adversity.

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What is yours to do? Do you know? I’m not 100% certain what is mine to do next—yet! I am waiting and listening. In this episode, I share my sense that something new is on the horizon—a new project, plan, offering. I talk about what is blurry but emerging and how I don’t want to know, until it is time.

Are you willing to be vulnerable? Asking the question is often enough to make space for a flash of realness or creative genius to come through. Still riding on my recent breakdown/breakthrough, I share how I’m ready to be seen in a whole new way.

Mentions & More:
– Brene Brown Ted Talk – The Power of Vulnerability