Real relaxation is not a luxury. Your life depends on it.

First, what it is not:

• Eating a whole pint of ice cream without tasting it

• Binge watching multiple seasons for multiple days

• Having a glass(es) of wine because it’s been a loonngg day

• Relying solely on mind-body altering substances to get by

• Shopping when you don’t really need or want anything

• Chronic scrolling

No judgment. No shame, no blame. In a chronically stressed out society with mainstream messaging insisting to push through and sleep when you’re dead, it’s no wonder the reach for easy fixes to take the edge off is, well, easy.

DO YOU RELATE?

• Saying things like, “I don’t know if I can keep this up much longer?”

• On the verge of burnout, body breakdown, your last nerve?

• Feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, or stressed out on a regular basis?

• Doing the “all the right things” with your health and wellness, but feel like something is missing?

• Craving more connection to your Best Self, Spirit, Soul, something!?

• Wishing that you could feel like yourself again, but not sure how?

I get it. I have been there.

As an energetically sensitive soul living in an overwhelming world, I experience chronic overstimulation as shards of glass piercing my invisible skin. Ongoing lack of rest causes cringe-worthy crankiness, annoying impatience, and the little things to feel like big things.

It’s not complicated. When I do not receive sufficient sleep, downtime, and restoration, I do not feel like my best self.

I have experienced disconnect, despair, and doubt of ever feeling like myself again. I have felt cut off from the neck down and attempted to live from the neck up. I have numbed, self-medicated, been lost, dazed, and confused. I know the dark night of the soul…

Fortunately, as a body geek, I have been learning about what the body is and how it works for decades. I have discovered, and directly experienced, how to live more comfortably in it. The more knowledge I have of its design, the more I am empowered to collaborate with it, rather than try to bypass it - an impossible task.

Your Body is Magnificent.

Your body is designed to return you to your natural state of ease (aka homeostasis) via an amazing array of healing systems.

One of these is your nervous system that interfaces between the external world and your inner experience.

Imagine it as the conductor of the orchestra, reading the room and then telling the musicians how to play.

Fight or calm down. Flight or stay grounded.

Freeze or energize. People-please or be you.

Speed up or slow your roll.

What kind of music do you want playing in your body?

Another way of asking this is: What state of be-ing do you want to live from?

Real relaxation IS experienced when the restorative aspects of your nervous system are engaged, so that you feel like yourself again. A soothing ebb in a frenzied flow.

When your nervous system is regulated - functioning the way it is naturally designed - you can experience an abundance of holistic wellness benefits such as: