Warrior Flow

10/06/2025

Hi Friends 👋🏻

Starting today Monday at 7 pm ET I will be teaching Mindful Movement on ShareWell every week.

ShareWell is a free online platform where anyone can join peer support groups on hundreds of life topics.

My class offers a gentle and grounding space to move, breathe, and reflect together through yoga, breath awareness, and community.

You can join for free using the link below.👇

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10/06/2025

Integration does not erase our struggles or our differences. It allows us to live honestly, with all our parts, and to extend that same acceptance to others. This is the path toward connection and belonging.

👉 To learn more about this topic, you can read my essay “All Parts Welcome.”

https://adrianmolina1979.substack.com/p/all-parts-welcome-a-map-to-our-inner

👉 For those interested in taking a break and doing meaningful work, you can join me at the Smoky Mountains retreat October 29 - November 3.

https://adrianmolina1979.substack.com/p/the-great-smoky-mountains-with-adrian

09/29/2025

Compassion is not just for others. It begins inside. Every part of us has a purpose, even the difficult ones. When we listen instead of pushing away, we begin to understand ourselves in a new way.

👉 To learn more about this topic, you can read my essay “All Parts Welcome.”

https://adrianmolina1979.substack.com/p/all-parts-welcome-a-map-to-our-inner

👉 For those interested in taking a break and doing meaningful work, you can join me at the Smoky Mountains retreat October 29 - November 3.

https://adrianmolina1979.substack.com/p/the-great-smoky-mountains-with-adrian

09/28/2025

I often reflect on my internal programming of wanting good things to arrive quickly and bad things to go away. This goes for us as a society too. The moment something unpredictable causes a rupture, reminding us we're not in control, chaos emerges and we get lost in scripts that have no validity. I think it's important not to dwell on moments of rupture and chaos, whether personal or societal, but also not to rush through them without recognizing how crucial they are for our growth, resilience and survival. These moments can open doors to deeper understanding and, in time, help us live with awe and appreciation. That's what my latest essay "Rupture, Chaos and Awe" explores.

Embracing the Cycles That Transform Us

09/22/2025

Inside us live many voices, each carrying a story of survival or hope. Parts work offers language for this inner experience, but the message is simple. We can learn to meet every part with curiosity and kindness.

👉 To learn more about this topic, you can read my essay “All Parts Welcome.”

https://adrianmolina1979.substack.com/p/all-parts-welcome-a-map-to-our-inner

👉 For those interested in taking a break and doing meaningful work, you can join me at the Smoky Mountains retreat October 29 - November 3.

https://adrianmolina1979.substack.com/p/the-great-smoky-mountains-with-adrian

09/15/2025

We are shaped by more than a single identity. Each layer of who we are influences the doors that open and the challenges we face. Intersectionality, a concept developed by legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw in the late 1980s, is the idea that people can face discrimination based on multiple identities at once. Crenshaw’s framework was revolutionary because it showed how overlapping identities like race, gender, class, and sexuality create different lived experiences that can’t be understood by looking at each identity in isolation. This understanding is crucial for creating fair policies and truly inclusive communities. Our complexity is our strength.

👉 To learn more about this topic, you can read my essay “All Parts Welcome.”

https://adrianmolina1979.substack.com/p/all-parts-welcome-a-map-to-our-inner

👉 For those interested in taking a break and doing meaningful work, you can join me at the Smoky Mountains retreat October 29 - November 3.

https://adrianmolina1979.substack.com/p/the-great-smoky-mountains-with-adrian

09/13/2025

I wrote my latest essay "The Cost of Caring" after feeling sad for a week filled with reminders of the wounds we carry as a society. Remembering tragic events, shootings, and policies that seemed to go against any resemblance of humanity. And yet, there is an opportunity to reconsider how we want to see the world and define our role in it.

Why Choosing to Care Still Matters, Even When It Hurts

09/06/2025

Existential fatiguing is the tiredness that comes from constantly having to construct, reconstruct and deconstruct who you are in a world that seems fragmented, unstable and spinning out of control.

It's not depression, though they are polite to each other. It's not only anxiety, though they know each other's dirty laundry. It's the exhaustion of being aware, of caring, of trying to find your place when the ground keeps shifting beneath your feet.

Maybe you've felt this too.

The weight of consciousness itself in times that feel unprecedented. If so, you're not alone in carrying this particular heaviness.

Learn more about this topic in my latest essay.

The quiet resilience of showing up, tired but still human

08/31/2025

There are factors that shape everything from the healthcare you receive to the opportunities you are offered. The color of your skin, your immigration status, and many others.

These realities can even determine the kind of help you receive when you or entire communities are in need.

I believe education is just as important as intervention when it comes to facing stress, hardship, and mental health challenges.

Education can offer us tools, clarity, and a path forward when other resources are not available.

That is why I wrote my latest essay, to share two frameworks that have personally helped me reframe situations and experiences, and to see both myself and the systems I live in with new perspective.

What intersectionality and parts-work teach us about being human

08/23/2025

Writing about a topic such as wellness can be intimidating, particularly knowing that I am or was part of this industry. And even if I would not consider myself fully part of it, I am still an active consumer like many of us. Writing my latest essay Wellness: The Beautiful Scam took a lot out of me. You might think that writing about a word I personally despise so much would be easy. It was actually the opposite. I had to navigate through layers of resistance. Doing some research on the word helped me understand the spell we are under and what we can do to reimagine this heavy, loaded word. I hope you enjoy the read.

How a 17th-Century Word Became a $6.3 Trillion Lie.

08/22/2025

I used to think that the first steps were the most difficult. But I am learning to think that once you fall, and you get back up, those steps are equally if not more powerful. You learn your blind spots, all the different parts of who you are, and with a little help you learn your why. I am so happy to share that there are only 2 rooms available for the smoky mountains retreat with me at the end of October. Thank you everyone.

An Experience of Community, Healing, and the Outdoors

04/14/2025

I am sitting at the intersection of a midlife crisis, trauma processing and career change.