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The Fully Nourished Soul, San Diego, CA (2025)

03/22/2025

There is something to be said about the things that trigger us and when I heard this once, I never forgot it, as it resonated to the depth of my soul.

Here is my take on triggers...

Triggers are great messengers and can create opportunities for us to do some deep self exploration and healing. But only if we are open to doing the work to resolve them.

This can be a very deep, yet profound experience, as you work through the layers of trauma to the root of the traumatic experience.

Oftentimes we think we know what the trigger is. But many times we fail to recognize where the patterns from the trigger come from. Where the root of it actually started or began. Surprisingly, it may be from something you have long forgotten about or didn't realize was an issue.

Moving through the history of it, like peeling back the layers of an onion, we can get to the core of it.

Here it gets raw, there can be a lot of emotion that comes up, and it can feel messy.

But, if you can stay in the mess, sort it all out, and then work through it...you can change the way you show up.

You can take your power back and show up in these moments as a completely different version than how you used to. What an amazing gift to give to yourself and those around you.

My wish for you this week, or month, is to begin to notice when you are triggered. Journal about it, explore where else this has shown up in your life, really lean into it and start to see the connections. It might just blow your mind open when you see all the ways this comes up for you.

As a self-awareness and somatic practitioner I can help support you and guide you on this journey as I've done with many others. Feel free to reach out.

Sending you love and blessings today and always. XOXO

03/04/2025

The shadow side of self is an important aspect of who we are. When embraced, it can shed light onto the parts of ourselves that need tending to, places where there is work we need to do, and where we need to spend some time healing.

Collectively, it is composed of personality traits, emotions, feelings, thoughts, and behaviors. It includes our impulses and reactions to everything around us. All of the things that we may not like about ourselves or tend to blame on others that we try to push away, ignore, or avoid.

Carl Jung believes that our shadow self, also known as our darker side, manifests from difficult, traumatic, and unresolved experiences that have occurred at different times throughout our lives.

But the problem with suppressing our shadow side is that by suppressing what you need to heal, you begin to become disconnected from yourself and isolated from the world.

Left unattended to for too long can lead to a variety of imbalances mentally, emotionally, and physically. Many times leading to illness and disease.

You can illuminate the shadow side of self by:

✨Reflecting on how you feel about certain things in your life and why or how that came about.
✨ Examine and observe how you react to situations or people around you and where that reaction comes from.
✨ Identify your triggers and see the connections they have in other areas of your life or discover where they began in the first place.
✨Recognize areas where you may have blind spots and examine the unawareness you have to how and why you respond, behave, think, or even speak about yourself, others, or situations that have played out in your life.

The shadow side is neither good or bad, it's just a part of who we are. When we acknowledge and embrace it we can heal it by bringing it into our conscious awareness. Leaning into what it has to show and teach us, we can then transform it and transmute it into light.

My wish for you this week is to play with your shadow side. List it out, map out how you will work through it, and lean into it with love and compassion for yourself.

02/08/2025

It's in the hard stuff that we can find the golden nuggets that bring in what we need to see to transform, grow, and glow on.

These moments are here to illuminate what we need to see in ourselves and others. The areas needing attention and attending to. They are here for us to lean into, grow from, and move forward into a new awareness of how we all show up in the world.

The next time something hard comes your way, lean into the lesson with curiosity and not assumption. Find the golden nugget and plant it with the awareness of what it is teaching you.

There is an impeccable beauty in the hard stuff that can be our greatest teacher, but only if we are open to being a student willing to learn.

The next time you are hit with that wave of sadness from a hard lesson in life, lean in, learn, grow, transform, and then move onward.

Sending you love & blessings today.

XOXO

01/25/2025

There is an unsurmountable beauty when we take a sacred pause in thought, in how we respond, and before we make a decision.

All too often many of us respond to a question or make decisions too quickly. There are also people who are formulating their response to a conversation before a person is done speaking.

But there is so much beauty in the pause before responding.

This is a lesson I myself am still in a field of play with as I try to take that moment to fully check in with what my thoughts are, what I'm really thinking, or with what words I truly wish to convey.

Whatever your reason to rush to respond, I invite you to take that moment to pause before responding and gather yourself and your thoughts fully.

It can be done by something as simple as taking a breath before you speak. Or it can be done by repeating the question or reframing what was said.

All of these create a moment to pause and think before you respond.

It's a practice for sure, I'm still practicing myself. But that pause can help you check in with yourself and formulate what to say next in the moment and not just give any response in a flash just to complete the conversation.

My wish for you this week is to play with the pause in conversations. Play with the curiosity of what might be said differently when you don't respond too quickly with your words. Then come back here and let me know how this showed up for you,

Sending you love always. XOXO

12/22/2024

There is so much to be grateful for! They can range from the big wins in life that you shout out in joy. While including the smaller wins when we take that small step towards a goal. Then there is everything in between that brings us joy, makes us smile, and feeling content exactly where we are in this moment.

Life has its ups and downs, sometime we are spiraling, other times floating on cloud nine.

But if you take a moment to pause and look back and focus on the good parts of the past year, focus on the magical moments. and relish in the beauty of that than this is where you will find so much to be grateful for.

Take a moment, close your eyes, and think of three things, moments, or people you are grateful for. Hold them in your heart, feel them deep in your soul, and breathe them in with the love and gratitude you have for them. Thanking them for being with you as you walk in this life.

Gratitude is the medicine this holiday season. Aho!

12/21/2024

Awakening from a late fall slumber as I took some time to turn inward and embrace the need for a sacred pause from life. Kinda ironic that it lined up with the winter solstice, as that was not planned.

From time to time we all need moments of time to do inner work, relax, and just be. The world is fast paced and if we lose our awareness of such, we can get dragged along with it until we become exhausted.

Often times this stay busy mindset is a trauma response. It can be a survival mechanism that serves to derail us from being with ourselves. An avoidance tactic where we are to busy with everything else, that we don't have time for ourselves and to reflect and work through the broken aspects of our soul.

Addictions can settle in as a trauma response as well. Kinda like a coping mechanism. I am not only talking about alcohol and drugs, as it can also manifest as excess shopping, gambling, social media use, or any other strategy you bring in that is in excess and not for the betterment of your health or life.

With the new year just around the corner. I challenge you to find time to sit with yourself and look at the parts of you that need tending too. Map it out, carve a path, and move through it with the rhythm of your soul.

2025 is almost here! How do you want to show up in the healthiest and happiest version of who you are or desire to be?

If you need a guide to walk with you, to support and coach you, send me a DM and let's connect to build your template of healthy living from the inside out. Connecting the mind, body, and soul.

10/24/2024

Traumatic imprints, almost like scars within our bodies, can become activated by a variety of things that remind us of the initial traumatic event itself.

They can arise from the sight, smell, emotional, physical, or physiological sensation that reminds our minds or bodies of the event.

These triggers, weather we are aware of them or not, can overwhelm the nervous system and catapult us back into the original experience as if it were occurring in the here and now.

But we can gain some control over how these activate and impact us. We may not be able to get rid of them entirely. But we can work to mitigate them and use them to transform trauma into triumph.

The more you play with how your body responds to these, the faster you can reroute it to safety. This can shorten the duration of the event and intensity of sensation you will experience in the triggering moment.

How do you play with triggers and regulate your nervous system?

Simple strategies can include such as:
💨 Breathwork
👣 Walking and grounding exercises
🥰 Self soothing with compassionate self-talk and affirmations

10/12/2024

Drumming to the heartbeat of my soul out in nature connecting with my drum as each beat vibrates in and through me.

Part of my spirituality is my personal practice of drumming to connect myself with the divine and as a tool for meditation

It's a sacred practice I use to call myself home. To heal myself and others by awakening the spirit, healing the soul, and to help guide others on their own sacred path of self exploration, discovery, personal growth and transformation.

My wish for you this week weather you are new to drumming, or it is currently part of your spiritual path, is to explore the profound connection of the medicine the drum beat into your life on a regular basis. Either through the use of your own drum, in a drum circle, or by tapping into YouTube videos to harness and bring yourself into mindfulness and self-exploration.

10/08/2024

While it can be such a great feeling to do the work and move in a fluid state of growth, healing, and transformation there is also beauty in looking back and acknowledging the journey on how far you have come.

At times we can be so focused on what is next for ourselves that we forget to relish in the beauty of how much we have overcome.

It's important to remember and appreciate all that we have learned and worked to become in who we are in the present moment.

My wish for you this week is to remember and rejoice on the accomplishments and victories that your old self would be proud of you for. Recall the shifts in your mindset along this journey and how they helped shift and mold you into who you've become today. Taking this and using it to pave the path before you as you continue to take steps each day to the life you are carving out for yourself as you continue to grow and transform each step of the way.

09/29/2024

Grounding in the moment, feeling into myself, and allowing myself to reconnect and retune myself mentally and physically.

Grounding exercises are an instrumental component of somatic therapy and the practices that support it. They greatly support and improve the mind-body connection, while allowing you to create body awareness by connecting to your physical self.

Through this practice you can reduce stress, anxiety, and other emotions that arise while anchoring yourself to the present moment.

On this day I'm grounding myself to the energy of a rock that has been energized by the sun. Pulling in this magnificent energy inward, feeling the suns warmth pulsing through me. Connecting my body and mind in the present moment with purpose and an increased awareness.

Other things you can do to integrate the healing effects of somatic therapy include walking barefoot on the Earth, running water over yourself, petting your fur baby (or someone else's), and even listen to calming music to help lower your heart rate and improve your overall well-being.

There are many practices, these are just some.

What practices do you bring in?

Do you bring them into your routine on a regular basis?

My hope for you over the next week is that you find one practice and bring it in a few times a week. Gradually bringing it in until it's a daily habit. Take notice on how you feel before and after. Overtime your mind and body with thank you.

Stick with it. Healing is a journey. All it takes is mindfulness and moving in a purpose filled direction.

09/04/2024

Those moments will find their way through when emotions arise. Sometime softly rolling in and other times with a surge that is strong and fierce.

But you don't need to stop it, just don't become it. Feel it and acknowledge it for what it's worth. But don't let it take over you in the moment by getting the best of you.

Acknowledge it for the lesson it brings. Then let it slip away as you return to your true center, to your core, and the essence of who you really are.

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