Mind-Body Coaching & Healing

02/02/2024

Brainspotting uses unconscious reflexes and eye positions to process stress, trauma and discomfort in the mind and body. Call Susan at 952.220.5225 to learn about the ease of calming, unwinding and regulating your nervous system today.

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12/14/2022

07/16/2022

My brain and
heart divorced

a decade ago

over who was
to blame about
how big of a mess
I have become

eventually,
they couldn't be
in the same room
with each other

now my head and heart
share custody of me

I stay with my brain
during the week

and my heart
gets me on weekends

they never speak to one another

- instead, they give me
the same note to pass
to each other every week

and their notes they
send to one another always
says the same thing:

"This is all your fault"

on Sundays
my heart complains
about how my
head has let me down
in the past

and on Wednesday
my head lists all
of the times my
heart has screwed
things up for me
in the future

they blame each
other for the
state of my life

there's been a lot
of yelling - and crying

so,

lately, I've been
spending a lot of
time with my gut

who serves as my
unofficial therapist

most nights, I sneak out of the
window in my ribcage

and slide down my spine
and collapse on my
gut's plush leather chair
that's always open for me

~ and I just sit sit sit sit
until the sun comes up

last evening,
my gut asked me
if I was having a hard
time being caught
between my heart
and my head

I nodded

I said I didn't know
if I could live with
either of them anymore

"my heart is always sad about
something that happened yesterday
while my head is always worried
about something that may happen tomorrow,"
I lamented

my gut squeezed my hand

"I just can't live with
my mistakes of the past
or my anxiety about the future,"
I sighed

my gut smiled and said:

"in that case,
you should
go stay with your
lungs for a while,"

I was confused
- the look on my face gave it away

"if you are exhausted about
your heart's obsession with
the fixed past and your mind's focus
on the uncertain future

your lungs are the perfect place for you

there is no yesterday in your lungs
there is no tomorrow there either

there is only now
there is only inhale
there is only exhale
there is only this moment

there is only breath

and in that breath
you can rest while your
heart and head work
their relationship out."

this morning,
while my brain
was busy reading
tea leaves

and while my
heart was staring
at old photographs

I packed a little
bag and walked
to the door of
my lungs

before I could even knock
she opened the door
with a smile and as
a gust of air embraced me
she said

"what took you so long?"

- John Roedel,

John Roedel is a comic who unexpectedly gained notability as a writer and poet through his heartfelt Facebook conversations that went viral and became an Amazon best-selling book titled, "Hey God. Hey John." The author of five books, John offers a sincere and relatable look at his faith crisis, ment...

06/02/2022

Surrender 💜

02/10/2022

It takes the deep humility of unwaivering commitment to obedience to accept the Lord's purpose in your life, especially if you don't understand it. He is having His way, even if your heart cries out against it. The key to surrender is choosing His presence.
- Kathy Mote

01/15/2022

Truly living in the heart requires boundaries with others 💚

01/15/2022

The carnal mind does not want to hear anything that does not agree with the flesh and it doesn't want to hear anything it doesn't already understand. That is why He will humble our heart to hear Him.
- Kathy Mote

12/15/2021

Before we know we are loved, we miss the best thing about ourselves. God's love for us is the Truth of our self esteem, and that Truth is something only He can give us.
- Kathy Mote

12/09/2021

We learned that God is sovereign as we accepted the unacceptable from Him. Now that we know He is sovereign, we will learn how utterly gentle and kind He is as His heart is released. He will fill us with His presence and that will be our knowledge of Him. Our connection with Him is Him in us. That is how we live and breathe.
- Kathy Mote

11/19/2021

Amen ✨💛✨