February 26, 2024

Be comfortable in your own environment, in your own skin.

Guess what? You get to decide what that means to you:

🍯 What you eat, what you drink, what you consume (literally and metaphorically).

✨How often do you move? What is wellness?

☀️How you design your life, what you wear, what your environment looks like, how your days are structured. How do you live?

💛 What romance is, what sex is, what pleasure is, what friendship is. What community is and how you engage with it.

🏆 What’s important to you? What do you value?

I value a whole lotta things. One of them is embodiment and teaching it to others. My body leads me back, literally every single time.

When @cisco_mtz took these portraits there was one instruction: I had to look smirky or “smize-y” but I was not supposed to be laughing or smiling big (my “signature” if ya will).

This picture failed that assignment. It happened organically in a sea of serious-ish pictures. These things happen (laughter, joy, play).

What I noticed (and this is admittedly a small detail so bear with me) was that my feet are all tensed in the pictures where I’m serious, and in this one where I burst into laughter— my body is totally relaxed.

I’m comfortable and laughing and in my element, in my environment, in my skin: relaxed feet and all.

Which then makes me think: how much pain do we carry in our bodies on a regular basis just cause we’re doing something that feels a little unnatural? And that’s decidely a whole other musing for another post.

What’s one thing you value? It can be literally anything! Anything. You can write it down just for you and keep it somewhere close… or you can reply in the old *comments* section below cause then it’s a fun hive mind thing and I’d love to hear from you.

p.s. I wrote the first version of this and then accidentally deleted it cause it’s the end of a full moon weekend and I’m posting to distract myself from the myriad of other things I should definitely be doing. Happy Monday if you’re reading this today. Sending big sweet love your way 🫶