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🌿 What This Year Has Been About

A reflection from the first year of EMBody Wisdom

As I reflect on the first year of EMBody Wisdom, I find myself returning to this question:

What has this year truly been about—and how is it growing me into something more?

It’s easy to measure time by external markers: clients served, programs launched, milestones reached.
But this year has been about something deeper. Quieter. More formative.

This has been a year of rooting.

Not just launching a practice—but building a foundation.
Not just speaking truths—but learning to hold space for them, in my body and in community.
Not just offering healing—but living it.

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Becoming a Steady Presence

In the midst of a world that feels increasingly unstable, I’ve found myself drawn into conversations—especially within the church—about what it means to be a stable presence.

This year has been an invitation to become that presence.

To stay grounded when others feel uprooted.
To hold space for grief, for doubt, for spiritual longing.
To trust the slow, body-led wisdom that says:
You don’t have to move fast to be moving forward.

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Choosing to Stay

This year also brought clarity about timing and place.

Even as I imagine what might come next, I’ve made the intentional decision to remain rooted where I am for a while longer.  (God willing)

Not because I’m stuck.
But because I’m choosing to go deeper before I go wider.

There’s something powerful about choosing to stay to resist the pull of urgency or expansion, and instead tend to the soil beneath your feet.

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Growing Into More

This year has reminded me that becoming more doesn’t always look like doing more.

Sometimes growth looks like:

• Becoming more present

• Becoming more visible in your truth

• Becoming more rooted in your body and Spirit

• Becoming more willing to trust the unfolding

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An Invitation to You

As I reflect on what this year has been about for me, I wonder…

What has this year been about for you?
What are you learning to hold?
What’s quietly growing within you, even if no one else can see it yet?

May we all have the courage to root deeply,
To trust the wisdom rising from within,
And to let the becoming unfold in its own sacred time.

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When Knowledge Becomes Wisdom

 Message:

“Books and teachings on psychology and human behavior can provide profound insights, but personal reflection brings the knowledge to life.”

There’s something comforting - and even exhilarating - about reading a good book on human behavior, psychology, or emotional intelligence. It puts words to what we feel, offers tools for clarity, and gives us that rush of: “Ah, that makes so much sense now.”

But insight alone isn’t transformation.

Mental wellness isn’t just about collecting wisdom - it’s about living it. And that’s where reflection becomes sacred. That’s where your personal experience breathes life into the theories. Where concepts become compassion. Where head knowledge moves into the heart and body.

You may read about boundaries, trauma, or brain chemistry - but until you sit with your own story, your own patterns and reactions, it remains information. Valuable, yes. But waiting to be embodied.

This is where EMBody Wisdom invites you to pause.

What if you didn’t just know what emotional regulation is,
but began to notice how your body signals stress - and respond with gentleness?
What if you didn’t just understand attachment theory,
but allowed that understanding to shape how you hold space in your relationships?

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Reflection Prompt:
What book, podcast, or learning has recently deepened your understanding of emotions or mental health?
More importantly - how can you let that knowledge touch your lived experience today?

Maybe it’s a breath before reacting.
Maybe it’s a boundary you’ve been afraid to set.
Maybe it’s grace for yourself in the middle of a hard season.

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Body-Mind Connection:
Remember - our learning is only as helpful as the nervous system that carries it.
You can’t think your way into peace if your body is still stuck in fight, flight, or freeze.

So today, take a walk. 

Stretch. 

Breathe. 

Move.

Let the knowledge you’ve gathered settle into your bones. Let it become part of how you move through the world.

And if you’d like help integrating all the layers - physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual - reach out to EMBody Wisdom. This is the real work: not just learning wellness, but living it.