If you're coming from Human First/AI Driven Summit this week or are an existing member of this community, I have a gift for you, my Hidden Patterns Quiz. The backstory is that I've been observing patterns my entire life. When I got into functional medicine practice, I noticed the physical, mental, and emotional patterns that my patients had. At first I saw them through the lens of biochemistry, physiology and nervous system regulation, but as I healed and grew myself and added the emotional and spiritual tools to my toolbox my lens expanded. I could SEE how profoundly interconnected everything was. So to help me illustrate that to my patients, I created this quiz (it started off as a static check box but is now an app). It connects the dots on how our physical, mental, emotional, and relational may be contributing to our life and current state. Your low back pain, tension in your jaw, reflux and indigestion, anxiety, indecision, not speaking up to keep the peace, and self sabotage are all related (just an example I see often😉). The quiz invites you to bring awareness what might be connected for you, if there are repeating patterns, and opens the possibility of asking what can shift if you see things from a different lens. Here is the link: Hidden Patterns Quiz Over the coming days we're going to dive into it further. I also want to ask a simple poll question: Do you fully see how everything in your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual body is connected?? I'll tell you what I've observed in 20 years of working with people in the comments.

In another community we were asked to describe our ideal community member and I've struggle with this in the past, but today it flowed so much easier and I wanted to share it with you. She is a midlife woman who's already done some self-work but knows she is still living inside old patterns she can’t think her way out of. People see her as intelligent, self-aware, and capable, but she wants more than that and doesn't relate to that version of herself anymore. She deeply craves connection through stronger relationships, more confidence in her words and actions, and a life or business that feels more like hers (and not what's expected of her). What keeps her awake at night is the gap between what she understands and what she can actually change. She asks herself, "Why am I still anxious, triggered, overthinking, people-pleasing, holding back, repeating the same patterns, or afraid to fully be seen?" *********************************************************************************************************** That was how I replied. I can relate because I've been there too. At one time just a few years I had so much internal resistance because I felt so disconnected to the version of me the world saw and the version of me that existed within me. I ignored it for a while, until I couldn't. It nearly broke me and I'm so grateful every day it did, because it forced me to honor myself by releasing the stories and emotions that had been holding me back like a self-imposed prison. As I shed those layers I slowly began remembering me and as that process unfolded my power, voice, and confidence returned. But the biggest gift is emotional freedom- I'm no longer consumed by or get caught up in other peoples' opinions, stories, or narratives and I'm not triggered by much of anything. If I do get triggered, it's an invitation to check in and see what I need. I'd love to know if you can relate? Do you feel misunderstood or unseen? Do you feel like people really know you? 💗

Most of the women I work with embody elements of both, but often feel they have to wear the mask of being practical and brainy to be acceptable, seen and accepted by the world. They're afraid if they show too much emotion or their spiritual sides people will judge and reject them. We dive into where these stories and feelings came from. So often it was when they were little girls expressing themselves, so they shut it off. I've been there too, especially because I was a scientist and a doctor. I had a very strong emotional and spiritual aside, and I suppressed it until I couldn't anymore. Midlife came and it said, "I'm gonna keep beating you over the head until you acknowledge who you are." And so I listened after a little bit of fear and resistance. I want that for you because it's absolute BS that we're conditioned this way. It's time to be deconditioned and choose yourself! 🥰💃🏼 How do you see yourself? Are there parts of you that you feel you need to hide still?

Forgiveness has been a theme coming up in conversations and sessions recently, and I had a little download to share with you about it. ✨✨✨🤗🤗🤗

Happy Tuesday Everyone! 🥰🥰🥰 Transformation, growth, and evolving in life and business start with tuning into your intuition and not your inner critic. Intuition and self trust guides us and build confidence, while the inner critic keeps us stuck in fear and indecision. Part of connecting with and growing that intuition is understanding that your journey is yours and it has MANY layers and dimensions. The infographic below illustrates many of the ways we grow, heal and evolve, but the most important part is YOU choosing what's best for YOU. On our journey here together we're going to tap into all of these areas in time, but we'll be starting with learning how to tap into yourself.💫💫💫 You can call it intuition, subconscious mind, or even higher self, but being able to clearly and confidently do that and listen to it (not edit it) is a skill and we're going to be starting that tomorrow. Where are you at with trusting your intuition and self?? Be honest! We're all human and perfectly imperfect. 🥰👇 Also, has midlife made this better or worse?