09/07/2026
Before I fully settle into the coziness of fall, I want to reflect on how this summer brought me back to my body.
I came into the summer still carrying a lot. My partner had survived cancer last year, and while I was deeply grateful, I also recognized how much the experience had asked of me—as a partner, a mother, a therapist, and a person.
I took two very different trips:
✨ In Guatemala, I had the opportunity to slow down, receive, learn through touch, and experience the abdomen in a way that deepened my understanding of how interconnected our physical and emotional experiences can feel. I’m so grateful to my friend and teacher Michael Meier MeierMethod || Medical Massage Trainings Spa: Massage & Wellness for creating the space for this work.
Then came something else:
🧘🏽♀️ 10 days of silent Vipassana meditation.
Ten days of turning inward.
Of sitting with sensation.
Of noticing the mind’s constant tendency to crave, resist, judge, anticipate, and react.
One of the deepest lessons I took from that experience was learning to observe sensation without immediately needing it to be different.
Not because pain or discomfort isn’t real.
But because sensation changes.
Discomfort changes.
And our relationship to it can change.
I’ve been thinking about this a lot in my work with the pelvic floor: learning to listen without fear, notice tension without judgment, and create enough safety that we don’t have to brace against every uncomfortable sensation.
The pelvic floor doesn’t exist in isolation. It lives within a whole human being (you!)—with a nervous system, a history, a breath, emotions, and a constantly changing inner landscape.
Healing doesn’t always mean do more.
Sometimes it’s being quiet enough to notice what’s already there. 🌀
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I’ve been quieter here this summer, but I’m ready to be more present again. Hello. 🧡🍂
📸: SELFATICA | Feminine Yoga SELFATICA | Feminine Yoga & Ayurveda
