The Original Method Lifestyle

10/28/2024

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10/16/2024

Help! I’m gathering ideas for my next podcast episode/blog post and would love your input! What are you currently curious about or struggling with in your health journey, career, or personal growth? Drop your questions or topics below, and I’ll riff on what lights me up.

03/25/2024

Do you ever wonder why you feel serene environments and chaotic in others? Or why some people make decisions swiftly and confidently, yet you struggle with knowing what the right choice is for you? Perhaps you've noticed how specific tasks energize you, while others drain your spirit, regardless of their simplicity or complexity.

Think about those moments when you felt utterly in sync with your surroundings, where every decision and action flowed seamlessly. Contrast that with times of misalignment, when choices felt cumbersome, and paths seemed obscured.

Now, imagine understanding the underpinnings of these experiences. What if you could decode your intrinsic nature, learning how to optimize your interactions, harness your strengths, and navigate challenges with grace?

This is where Human Design comes in, offering a map to your unique energetic blueprint. It's a synthesis of age-old wisdom—astrology, the I Ching, Kabbalah, and chakra systems—crafted to illuminate your individuality. Human Design provides insights into your personal decision-making, communication style, and life strategy, empowering you to live with authenticity and purpose.

As I integrate Human Design into my coaching, I invite you to discover how this tool can transform your understanding of yourself and others. Whether it's clarifying your career path, enhancing relationships, or fostering personal growth, Human Design offers tailored insights that resonate with your soul's essence.

I'm on the lookout for 5 individuals eager to journey into self-awareness and harness their unique potential. This is a special invitation to explore your design and embrace your authentic self, all within a supportive and insightful coaching experience.

Interested in this unique opportunity? Reach out to me, and let's embark on this enlightening path together!

03/21/2024

What is your greatest challenge/struggle right now?

03/12/2024

I don't know about you all, but sometimes, when I reflect on the past—specifically past versions of myself—I feel a bit "cringy" and experience feelings of shame, regret, dread, and embarrassment. I have so many "flashbacks" of my life that I wish I could erase, moments I wish I had handled differently, times I wish I had been someone else. At times, it feels as though I've wasted much of my life not living as I wanted or not crafting a story I was proud to share.

Such reflections bring up a host of uncomfortable feelings. If you join me in this reflection and sit with what each of those feelings is like in your body, you'll find they don't feel good. They can be quite activating—our own behavior was threatening to us in some way. It hurt us, limited us; it's not something we are proud of or want to showcase, nor is it behavior we wish to engage in now.

However, if we are not mindful of our thoughts when these memories or past experiences surface, our activation can propel us into action—likely into behaviors that distract us from feeling the uncomfortable emotions, and we don't even understand why we are behaving as we do.

This leads us to repeat past behaviors because everything we feel shame, regret, dread, etc., about was initially a reaction and a protective mechanism.

We were doing the best we could given the circumstances to protect ourselves and our emotions at the time—yet it led us to experience such discomfort afterward.

Our cycle of dysfunction is actually a symptom of running from ourselves.

This is why we chase new relationships—we are fleeing from ourselves. It's why we binge eat—we seek comfort from food and distraction from a sense of emptiness. It's why we stay busy all the time—to avoid confronting the discomfort we feel. Instead of avoiding, we repeat behaviors and continue to add layer upon layer of distress.

And it's exhausting.

It creates a level of grief in our lives that seems inexplicable because we are so disconnected from the most crucial relationship—the one with ourselves.

Choosing yourself can be the most challenging thing to do at times because our emotions can be so deep, so painful, so overwhelming, so intense, and it would be easier to neglect ourselves, to wish we were "simpler" to deal with, easier to love.

But what I have learned is that there is no better way to experience the true fulfillment, satisfaction and love we seek when we chase romance, eat a bag of potato chips, or burn the candle at both ends to avoid feeling or focusing on ourselves—than to do just that. Choose yourself.

Stop.

Sit.

Allow the discomfort to wash over you, to feel what you are resisting—because you can indeed handle it; you were designed to. You were and are designed to love yourself to the fullest capacity - and even discomfort and grief are a part of love.

Love isn't afraid of messy.

When we sit with the discomfort and it passes, we can then become curious about ourselves, about what it is that we want, and be creative enough to manifest that in our lives.

When we choose ourselves, we love ourselves.

What are your thoughts? Have you experienced similar situations or feelings? How are you choosing to love yourself today?

03/08/2024

Are you someone who labels yourself as good or bad based on your food choices? If so, it’s time to rethink that approach. Labeling yourself in this way is inherently harmful, and I encourage you to stop today.

Why do we even have this mechanism? It’s because humans are designed to eat. Our ancestors consumed anything available to survive. Unlike them, we now face an overwhelming array of food options and even non-food items masquerading as edible.
If we abandon the ‘morality’ mindset and stop labeling ourselves, we’ll find relief. Recognize this mechanism for what it is.

Understand that there are foods that nourish our bodies and others that bring consequences. This perspective is both helpful and accurate.

Adopting this view allows us to track our food intake without shame. We can eliminate shame-based behaviors, which are a product of our human nature and brain development. This approach fosters introspection, allowing us to track our food neutrally and stay curious.
By focusing on nourishing foods and identifying which ones to reduce due to unwanted consequences, we can maintain a healthier relationship with food.

02/21/2024

What's been working for me lately?

Focusing on mySelf and not worrying about anyone else.

Sounds selfish or some kind of elite ideal that only works for people without kids? I don't think so. It's made me a better human and that's what the world needs. I needed to narrow my focus because as much as I hate to admit, I had been comparing myself to so many other people. "I should be farther along" "I should be eating cleaner" "I should be going harder in my workouts or going more often" (I average about 4 workouts a week), I should I should I should. Well, at some point we have to stop "shoulding" on ourselves. Progress for most of us (human design speaking) is really slow. I was living too far in the future and not in the here and now. Shoulding on myself was leading me to put myself last and I was doing things that I did NOT enjoy. I was focused on perfectionism and not what I desired for my life.

When we rush the process we miss the foundational parts of what will ultimately lead us to manifesting our desires. It takes us a couple of years as humans to learn to walk and talk - we just don't remember who is frustrating and difficult and LONG that takes. Habit building or building systems of progress in our life takes the same kind of neurological synapse and the further we are away from the age of 25 the less neurological plasticity we have and so we have to do things over and over and over again in order for it to become the new belief, the new habit, the new way of life. The 21 days to build a habit is actually a myth and the recent science on it shows it is more like 254 days to build habits that are significant life changes.

You thinking about yourself more than anyone else is likely not a habit because you likely thought that idea before today was, well, selfish.

My journal entry today is something I felt like sharing, as it provides context to this thought: "Give yourself a fu***ng break. You expect results too soon. Celebrate the discovery and awareness that you have, that you deserve better than what you've been told or conditioned to believe. You don't have to BE BETTER; you just need to be YOURSELF. The goal isn't to be better or to change; there's no need to be different. Understand and realize that the more you accept yourself, the more powerful you become. The only person you're comparing yourself to is who you were yesterday. What matters is how you feel, not the results. There is no need to perform for anyone; the life you were meant to live is for you and no one else."