11/05/2025
Looks like a normal room, right?
Classy, spacious, ginormous TV, cool lighting, and a nice bookcase.
But sometimes, the biggest transformations start behind the quietest doors.
Because if you look closely at the left-hand side of that bookcase...
there’s a handle.
And behind it?
A speakeasy.
According to Google:
A speakeasy was a secret bar during Prohibition (1920–1933) — a hidden place where people gathered to share laughter, music, and a little rebellion.
The name came from the need to “speak easy” to avoid drawing attention.
This retreat had one.
And standing there, I couldn’t stop thinking:
How many of us have a door like that inside ourselves — a place we’ve guarded or hidden for years (maybe decades)?
A place that once held joy, curiosity, freedom... but got walled off for safety.
What if there’s a handle on that door, just waiting for you to open it?
To rediscover the parts of you that still want to laugh, move, and breathe easy again?
✨ What’s locked away inside you?
✨ Could releasing your fascia — the fabric that holds memory, tension, and safety — be the key to your own speakeasy?
That word: Speakeasy.
What if your body could learn to do that — to speak easy again?
To tell you what it needs, instead of holding it all in?
To release the bracing, guarding, flinching, shallow breathing, sleeplessness, and pain?
So you can find your voice.
So you can speak easy — in your body, in your boundaries, in your life.
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
— Mary Oliver 💙
