In the meantime...

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Well...it seems my soul really isn’t feeling social media right now. And one of the things I’m really working on is trusting Soul. . And trusting that is safe to know what I want, and pursue what I want my own way. As a “solopreneur” (as many of us on IG are!) it’s scary to go against business norms and authority (all those marketing people who tell us it’s dang near professional suicide to stop posting everyday). But I got to trust the Deep on this one. At least for the time being what feels right is to turn this unintentional social media absence into an intentional sabbath, a sacred space holding for the new to be born. The work I do in guiding others is always preceded by the work I do learning how to guide myself. Or rather, trust the way I am already being guided by God. . So, with that hope and intention, I’m going to continue this break from Instagram and Facebook, not forgetting you, but loving you more as I open up greater creative space for the work my soul is here to do. . As much as I miss being part of your worlds, it feels really good to preserve my bandwidth and *not* try “to do it all” like I thought I had to before. (I hope this gives at least a few of you permission to let go of something too). . Trading the time I used to spend on my social media apps, I’ve been enjoying slower paced activities like playing music and day-dreaming of home-schooling my son, & paying more attention to an inner call to become Catholic. . What I’m called to give the best of my professional energy to is my #sophiaretreats ,1-on-1 clients, weekly YouTube videos, and hypnotherapy training. . It’s still a lot, I know! But the passion for each sustains me. (Where as time on my phone does not right now). What I crave to experience and give is happening right now in other spaces, so that’s where I’ll be. Those spaces with and around that move a whole lot slower than these tiny squares. . I won’t be gone from IG forever! (I don’t think 🤔) and I might share some live stories (like a sneak peak behind the scenes of the next Sophia Retreat happening in Portland this weekend!) but in the mean time, be well! . May you trust yourself & embody LOVE the real way you know how.
The veils between worlds are thin in this time, so if you are feeling strangely sensitive and fragile, and haunted by some kind of grief, it’s okay. There is nothing wrong with you. Many are feeling it with you. There is reason in this season. . Today I’ve been touched by this poem by Rilke. I hope it gives to you the permission it has given me...to feel the pain that isn’t just your pain, but the pain of the world, and to courageously choose to make your life beautiful the best you can, as a way to honor yourself and others and the Love that IS, regardless of if or how we understand it. Sometimes the truth is only accessible through faith and poetry and imagination alone. Dare to trust this way of knowing, too. . . . Quiet friend who has come so far, feel how your breathing makes more space around you. Let this darkness be a bell tower and you the bell. As you ring, what batters you becomes your strength. Move back and forth into the change. What is it like, such intensity of pain? If the drink is bitter, turn yourself to wine. In this uncontainable night, be the mystery at the crossroads of your senses, the meaning discovered there. And if the world has ceased to hear you, say to the silent earth: I flow. To the rushing water, speak: I am. Sonnets to Orpheus II, 29
To my quietly brave ones who are fighting their own good fights to not lose faith in the power of Love. 🕯
There are two types of energy: Energy that is stuck (low vibrations) and energy that is flowing (high vibrations). Energy that is stuck creates negative patterns in the body and mind that prevent us from feeling, having, and experiencing what we truly want. The process of healing is, in short, the process of transmuting heavy, stuck, negative energy into light, flowing positive energy. All of humanity is right now in the process of healing at an unconscious level. Wound patterns naturally move toward healing, that is why we keep repeating them. Unconscious healing can heal large painful wounds but it can take years, and is emotionally painful, dragging out the last of the energy traces until they are all gone and the original wound energy is finally processed. In some cases, this method (unconscious healing) can take a lifetime or even several generations. What if we don't want to wait our whole lifetime to heal from our childhood wounds?! We move into conscious healing...which is what you who are on this path of feminine wholeness are already beginning to do! . Because just as the body seeks health and is made to heal itself given the right conditions, the soul seeks wholeness and can return to that original essence, given the internal safety, love & belonging needed to thrive . I’m here to encourage you and help you cultivate that sense of safety, love and belonging from within. If you want to work on this together, reach out to me. This is what I’m really good at. Rooting for you, M💗
Cheers to you for getting better and better every week at taking supremely good care of the basics (first principle of #femininewholeness). . 〰️Daily sweat 〰️Lots of hydration 〰️Good rest 〰️ Meditation . Cheers to me for going for an #annieliebovitz style selfie. ☺️ Starry-eyed and dreaming of a world where every woman feels as beautiful as a movie star, as strong and healthy as an Olympian, and as happy and whole as Sophia herself. Love you guys and your supremely #highvibes. Happy Friday! . And by Friday I mean Thursday. 😂🤣😂 (thanks for pointing that out to me friends! I’m in my own happy land where everyday feels like something to celebrate!) #wotd
Anybody else grow up with Stewart Smalley 🤣? . This may have been the first affirmation I have memorized. . I was 10 and though I tried my hardest to will it to be true, I didn’t really believe it, no matter how many times I repeated it. . If I only knew then what I know now! . The thing with affirmations is no matter how positive they are, unless we can sneak them past the critical factor of the mind, they aren’t really effective. . And all day long it’s mostly that critical factor running the show. . Except... . Right before you wake up in the morning and right before you fall asleep. . Or when we are deep in meditation, prayer or blissed-out post making love. . These are liminal spaces where are brain is in a very different state, a very powerful state of possibility and transformation. . Whatever thoughts we think or speak here become real seeds of new belief, and—with enough repetition—new reality. . Learning how to guide women into this incredibly potent state within is becoming a super-power of mine. . I’m on the path to becoming a certified hypnotherapist and I can’t wait to help more and more women heal quicker in this way. . In most things I’m all for slowing down and taking the scenic route, but there is 1 thing that I want women to race towards and experience AS FAST AS POSSIBLE. And that’s this: their OWN HIDDEN WHOLENESS (it’s closer than everyone thinks!!!!). . Because I know once a woman discovers and experiences THAT...the whole game changes. . So, want to do some hypnotherapy with me? ✨🤓✨For the next 12-weeks I’ll be offering 1-on-1s at a student rate (60% discount from my normal rate). If you have always been curious if hypnotherapy can work for you, I’m so excited for you to experience what’s possible! . Sign up for my newsletter (link in profile) so you can be first to hear when opportunity opens. (very limited # of spots). . If you have always been a fan of positive thinking like I have, but have been discouraged by the lack of fruit from all your efforts, take heart. There is a way through! I’m experiencing it and so can you. ⚡️ . #hypnotherapy#hypnosis#positivevibes
I feel a soft and gentle joy inside. It’s warm and good and makes me feel safe wherever I am. I wish I could bottle it up and give it to everyone who wants a little or needs a lot. . Until I Iearn how to make ✨potions ✨ I’ll just keep doing what I’m doing . practicing the tools and passing them on . letting healing be a love story . making delight a spiritual practice . trusting what lights me up . following the holy bread crumbs. giving thanks . beginning again . going away to learn more . coming home to process and integrate . and then... . . . bringing it all together to lead #sophiaretreats to give other women the chance to have their own “embodied initiation” into the wholeness that’s right there waiting for them. #sophiaretreats . We are all so much closer than we think to our heart’s deepest desires. Feeling it for you. Feeling it for me. 💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗
Thank you to all the dope souls in my life! I seriously crave your vibes. . When I think of all the different things all you are devoted to and who you are being in the process, I am so ⚡️inspired⚡️. . My friends who are trading in houses for aerostreams and schoolies and fifth wheels. . My friends who are homeschooling their babies and raising their chillin their own way. . My friends who are helping others get their life back through better health. . My friends who are starting music festivals and art festivals to celebrate the goodness of culture-shifting creativity. . My friends who make me laugh on YouTube and the folks who make earnest videos on the most obscure things . My friends who are baring their souls in podcasts to make other people feel less alone. . My friends who are changing things up and traveling the world. . My friends who are spreading the gospel the OG way—through the power of their Love alone. . I love all the unconventional people in my life so much. Grateful for your “weirdness” and the way you call out mine.⚡️ . Thank you @thedopeinfluencer for this dope graphic 😎