This practice was created to support you with allowing you to connect to your breath to help release any blocks, emotional resistance or constraints you feel around unleashing your creative side and expressing your creativity fully. It was originally recorded as a supportive tool to use under the New Moon in Leo, but can be used any time you feel you need support in your healing journey and accepting yourself in your identities and finding clarity in who you are.

This meditation is a short breathwork practice that consists of mindful breathing and connecting to the body. You can use this meditation sitting or laying down and any time of day. You can find an article I wrote about working the New Moon in Leo below for more support. I hope this practice finds you well!

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untamed creativity & liberating self-expression under a Leo New Moon (article)

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This practice was created to support you with release any shame or embarrassment you feel in your self-expression, identities and quirks, and for embracing self-acceptance. It was originally recorded as a supportive tool to use under the Supermoon in Aquarius, but can be used any time you feel you need support in your healing journey and accepting yourself in your identities and finding clarity in who you are.

This meditation is a short breathwork practice that consists of mindful breathing and connecting to the body. You can use this meditation sitting or laying down and any time of day. You can find an article I wrote about working the Supermoon in Aquarius below for more support. I hope this practice finds you well!

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embracing radical self - acceptance with a Supermoon in Aquarius (article)

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This is a 10 minute meditation with background music that uses affirmations for supporting your healing in your relationship between your body and your mind. It's a wonderful practice to use during this New Moon in Cancer (and Cancer season). I love using this at night as part of an evening self-care & somatic/body connection ritual. You can also use this meditation when you feel disconnected from your body, have body image issues, struggle with physical wellness or trusting your body's innate wisdom to guide you through. Headphones are recommended but not needed. Invitation to sit quietly with your legs crossed ( if you are able ) with your your spine supported and erect, or lay down with one hand on your heart and one on your belly, or position your body however you like to relax. I hope this short meditation finds you well!

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Mothering Ourselves Under the Cancer New Moon (article on blog)

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For this episode, I thought I'd share I poem I wrote a few years ago when I was beginning to learn how to trust in my body and learning the language it speaks to me. I wrote this poem after I discovered breathwork and mindful breathing as practices to support me in getting out of my head and into my body. It seemed like the perfect poem to share here on the podcast during Cancer season.

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This meditation was created to support you with uncovering, exploring and releasing feelings of resistance in the body. It was originally recorded as a supportive tool to use under the Full Moon in Capricorn, but can be used any time you feel resistance in your healing journey. This meditation is a short breathwork practice that consists of mindful breathing and connecting to the body. You can use this meditation sitting or laying down and any time of day. You can find my blog post I wrote about working with resistance below for more support. I hope this meditation helps support you!

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Working with Resistance & Learning from Saturn Under this Full Moon in Capricorn (blog post)

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We are officially in Cancer Season! This episode explores our journey so far in the year of the zodiac from Aries - Gemini, before we land where we currently are : Cancer season. I chat about the energetic themes of Cancer season and the symbolism of its archetype (the soft shell crab) and what we can learn from this magnificent little creature. I share my current morning routine with you and how it’s changed over the years from the days when I worked full-time for someone else to now being a full-time business owner. I also touch on the shifts my nervous system has made since discovering breathwork and how your own nervous system is working perfectly to support you. Lastly, I chat about the five non-linear things that have helped me to create, refresh and sustain my A.M. routine (hint : there’s a lot of somatic experiencing!)

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The Five Minute Journal

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the meaning of the Winter Solstice & 7 ways to honor it (blog post)

This New Moon in Gemini is supporting us with taking care of our thoughts and integrating our mind with our body. It's also asking us what it really looks like to be in our highest most authentic expression which means taking us back to the moment we disconnected to our own inner knowing. For many of us, this happened when we were children.
Here is short breathwork practice to support you with planting seeds under the upcoming New Moon in Gemini. I also give you 3 affirmations specific to this New Moon. Breathe with me and set your intention for this practice to use your breath to help connect to your inner child and highest self under this New Moon. You can also read all about the energy of the New Moon in Gemini and what's coming up for me personally in an article I wrote here.

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discovering our inner child as our true soulmate under the New Moon in Gemini (blog post)

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In this episode, we continue the boundaries conversation! I chat about how setting boundaries is important when it comes to protecting your energy, especially mental energy and emotional energy - something that’s not valued in western culture. I talk about how it supports your self-confidence and self-trust in a way that grows personal integrity and living out your values. I also chat a bit about burnout and the shame we feel with it. I share my short mindful process of how to set boundaries with yourself and with others which includes understanding your values and needs, identifying how to get them met and then implementation. To round out this conversation, I give you 3 common myths about boundaries I’ve discovered in my own healing journey with boundary work. I hope this episode helps you to connect to your intention and live an empowered life through setting boundaries!

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What are boundaries? What common emotions do we navigate when we start doing boundary work? This episode is years in the making for me! In episode #11 of The Collective Inner Garden Podcast, I share what I’ve learned when it comes to navigating boundaries with friends and family and carving out your own path in this world. I talk about the meaning of your emotions as messengers and how to support them and take care of them somatically. I also get candid about feeling upheaval in your life and relationships when you start to set boundaries with others including the challenging emotions that might come up for you when you do boundary work and why we might experience them. I talk about managing anger, dealing with fear, understanding grief and reconciling shame - all of the feelings you might feel when you start to do boundary work. I also touch on how feeling disrespected and betrayed is common if you are confronting someone who has violated a boundary with you. I hope this episode helps you better understand what boundaries are and the emotions that might come up for you!

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Do you ever feel like you just aren’t good enough? Do you ever feel like you are behind? Do you jump to the future and then feel fear and anxiety about it all? These are some of the ways in which I abandon myself in my own healing journey. None of us are perfect and I suspect I'll have these moments often. In the meantime, I want to share my process with you in how I chose not to abandon myself - in my healing, my creativity and my self-care. This episode is the final part of a 3 part series called “How to Not Abandon Yourself”. New to this series? Start with episode #7.

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Journal Prompts : Episode #10 - Do what you can ( part three )

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Evolution of the quote: "Start where you are, use what you have, do what you can" is an adaptation of "Start where you are, use what you have, to what you can" by Michele Maturen (Rita's Mom) and is a paraphrase of Teddy Roosevelt's original quote "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."