This is not a pre-scheduled email. I did make it back from Cuba (hurray!). It was an incredibly transformative trip, which I've been sharing across my social media sites. (The main being my Facebook & Instagram account, with some dabbling on LinkedIn. I also have a few pod episodes coming out starting next week.)

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As a thank you for being in this community, I like to share things with you that I'm not sharing elsewhere.

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Here's what I haven't told people about why I went: I desperately needed time away from my life.

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The weight of responsibility for children and a growing business was severely impacting my nervous system. For months, I've been tuning in to my body and asking what it needs. All it told me was "I'm tired. I need to rest."

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But who can do that with young children that always seem to be hungry?

Or a business that isn't quite stable?

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Leaving the country for a week was the best way I could think of to create a strong enough boundary between myself and those things.

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And it was perfect. The week was incredibly nourishing. I felt vibrant and alive in a way I don't think I ever have. I'm so grateful to the people that fed me, drove me around, and created a schedule so I didn't have to think about a thing except what to eat.

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My family took turns having a fever while I was gone, so there was no transition time. I jumped right back into mom mode, which put me in that pre-Cuba feeling of wanting to run away.

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But this time, I'm choosing not to run.

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I'm choosing to face it.

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I don't want to live a life I want to run from. I want to live one that excites me.

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Cuba was not my final transformation. It was simply an activation. A glimpse of what is possible for me to feel if I do the work to align to it.

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I felt vibrant and alive there, and I know I can reconstruct that here. The feelings inside me are mine. I felt them once, which means I can feel them again.

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That's the beauty of the work I do. Learning how to interpret the signals in my body not as heaviness, but information. Showing me what heavy emotional energy is ready to release so I can feel that free feeling more often.

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I've spent some time with my body and my journal this week. Last night, I tapped back into that Cuba feeling as I danced through the grocery store to "Rollin on the River" giving zero F's what anybody thought. 🎶

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If you're feeling heavy right now, I see you. I honor you. The world is giving us plenty of reasons to feel that way.

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And I want you to know that heaviness does not have to be your destination. While I love time away to provide a clear reset, I also believe that you can learn to manage your inner world everyday. To feel just as vibrant and alive walking through the grocery store as you would walking through an open air market on a tropical island.

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🖊️ If you're wondering how to do that, start here.

1. Pull out a journal.
2. Think of a time you felt totally alive and free.
3. Ask "what's one thing I can do today to recreate that feeling?"
4. Write down without judgment whatever your intuition comes up with.
5. Then - follow through and see how it feels!

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