When you learn how to lift and fling the weight of self-judgement off of you, you can explore those old stories and “shoulds” with compassion.

You can see where you might’ve picked them up, what kept them in place, and start to replace the old heavy stories with new, lighter, more empowering ones. You can share more of you with the world.

As long as my value is dependent on someone’s greater or lesser value, then it demands a world where there are people that are less valuable than me.

I wish you a slower pace and a true break. No zoom calls to be on time for. No rushing. Full permission to rest and recharge.

After one of my client calls, I asked myself what I could create that would support my clients and other women who so badly want to feel grounded, present, and in their body. And, I knew it needed to be something easy that they could do in short little windows of time.

I realized it’s not about being relentless, unstoppable or a “girl boss.” It’s not about learning to become a multi-tasking unicorn or saying yes to everything or “hacks” (that word will never not remind me of a phlegm-filled cough, yikes). It’s not about constantly pushing yourself or not backing down.

I rarely get up early enough to see the sun rise and I was grateful to have an important reason to show up on that chilly Colorado morning. In my journal I wrote, “I knew it was going to be a great day. The sunrise was beautiful, very pink, and the first song I heard when I turned on KDUR was Bill Withers singing ‘Lovely Day.’