One of my core values in life as always been growth. If I'm not evolving, I often feel like I'm dying. My evolutions, though, don't really show up on the surface. They are taking place somewhere much deeper. It's the careful work of slowly easing your heart open after a decade of numbing out as a protection. It's the deconditioning of people pleasing and codependency, coming to prioritize the self and advocate for the self. It's taking your power back. The work of expanding your inner safety and capacity to feel joy without snuffing it out. It's patiently learning to manage anxiety so it becomes so completely background that you forget it's there. It's the gentle reestablishing of trust with the body so it feels like home again. It's the journey to self love which sometimes starts as self acceptance or maybe even just self tolerance, or a single moment of choosing the self.

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This is the type of work that is for you, alone. The type that impacts every aspect of your life and yet is simultaneously invisible. The type that doesn't need external validation and might not even want to be shared. It's not a milestone that's celebrated with a bottle of champagne at a party. It's not a before & after photograph. It's not a congratulatory occasion with a card and a bouquet of flowers. It's not a societally-approved benchmark.

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It's the quiet, consistent, return to the self. A great unwinding.

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It's the deep dive into emotions that the body has been holding for months, decades, a lifetime. It's the setting free. It's the clarity that remains when the clouds part and the sun returns. The self behind the noise, the conditioning, the experiences that shaped our reality. It's self mastery, it's homecoming, it's the rediscovery of who you are beneath all the bullshit. Unraveling the moments of I'll never be this, I'll never have that. Shedding the conditioning that informs our self-bullying, the belief that something is inherently wrong with us, processing the traumas and mining for gold. Reminding yourself that you are worth it. Remembering you came here on purpose, with purpose.

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It's using modalities, old and new alike. It's accessing your own inner wisdom through stillness and patient listening. It's breaking cycles and striking balance between doing and being. It's being held and nurtured when you need it, and feeling empowered to take your healing into your own hands. It's being held accountable to show up for you, gifting yourself the foundation of consistency. It's the blood, sweat and tears. It's loving yourself through it. It's gentle and heroic. It's the satisfaction and bliss after an exhausting session. It's the welcoming feeling from your heart that is always there waiting for you. It's the empowerment you gain as you plunge the depths and come back to the surface.

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It's part grit and part magic.

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It's all heart.

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It's The Work and The Woo.