You will change in unimaginable ways when you get really f*cking honest about the role you play in your own happiness…

As human beings, we are wired for connection.

We know this.

But what happens when we get ATTACHED to our own narratives of existing, that they often turn into a self-sabotaging loop.

One I’m working on is the idea that I don’t have to absolutely ware myself out in order to be worthy of rest.

Or a break.

I don’t need to stretch my body and mind to exhaustion in order to replenish it.

Survival mode has taught me that’s been the truth my whole life. And even as I approach my 35th revolution around the sun this year, it continues to take both healing and embodied integration for me to

s o f t e n

willingly into that place, AND without guilt. (Ooof tough right).

It’s taken devotion to movement & embodiment to get here.

I think the trouble is, we don’t realize we’re contributing to our own unhappiness, bc we can’t even recognize when we are happy and when we are not. Our nervous systems have gotten SCARY good at hyper functioning and multi-tasking that s l o w i n g d o w n feels like a direct threat.

One of the things I’ve been asking myself this year is..

“Who am I when nothing is required of me?”

This questions has asked me to look at my attachments and my connections, which brought me here;

Attachment has the power to completely take us away from the present. It keeps us either in the past or the future, longing for things to be final or permanent; maybe even offering us a false sense of security within that.

Connection, on the other hands, makes room for the unexpected.

Connection is intimate, synced, vulnerable and present.
And connection lives in the places we so often often demand “more” from…

Our bodies.
Our sensuality.
Our creativity.
Our curiosity.
Our intuition.
The self.

How could living look if we stopped getting in our own way? If we looked into our own roles of unhappiness, disconnected attachments, disembodiment and constantly asking ourselves for “more”?

I don’t have the answers for you, but I can tell you, they don’t reside in the logic of your mind. They live in the wisdom of your wild body and your untamed heart.

If you’ve read this far, thank you. Let me know if this resonates with you.

Xoxo
Emily Rose