Hey there Reader, In my previous email, I talked about how there’s a solution to anxiety and it involves re-directing your attention towards your body (icymi, you can read it here). But what happens when the body, your body, is not somewhere you want to go? Perhaps things have happened to you in the past and they involved your body. Perhaps you’ve dealt with pain for most of your life and it feels like your body is working against you. Perhaps the idea of focusing on your body feels weird or...

Whenever I tell people that part of my work is delivering stress management workshops, their eyes light up. I’m like eye candy. They lean in. They ask questions. They share stories. I have to admit: I sometimes regard the stress relief part of my work as the “most basic”, the least challenging, and thus the least gratifying one (thanks, patriarchy). It’s not as “deep” as trauma work, or as imaginative as energy work. I partly play it down because I sometimes… forget. I forget how it was when...

Hey there Reader. A few weeks ago, I was guiding a group of people through an inner journey. I usually stand as I speak. I also move my hands quite a bit, especially if there’s energy work involved, which makes me feel a bit ashamed. I’m afraid people will think I’m weird, in a bad way. One person in that group had their eyes open. It happens. But this time, I became self-conscious. They saw me move my hands. I concluded the meditation, and moved on to questions. I was explaining something to...