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Attune To + Trust Your Mind-Emotion-Body Wisdom

Do you trust your inner wisdom? Most of the women I work with have learned to distrust the wisdom of their body. Social, religious, and sometimes cultural conditioning teach us to turn to the gurus and experts for guidance. We’re taught from an early age to neglect our boundaries, suppress our feelings, and above all ignore the wicked leadings of our heart.

Trauma disconnects us from ourselves as well. Dr. Gabor Maté says that when we disconnect from our gut feelings (for instance, either we feel them and we don’t listen to them, or we don’t even feel them, which is a deeper disconnect) that’s a sign of trauma. It’s a narrowing of our capacity to be in the world. A disconnection from the Self (from the Compassionate Inquiry course).

But we’ve been given intuition and a gut instinct for a reason. And the wisdom centers of mind/intellect, heart/emotions, and instinct/body are constantly speaking to us to help us stay whole and healthy. We need to relearn how to attune to and trust our inner wisdom if we want to walk in freedom and wholeness.

This takes some time and begins, I believe, with a decision to befriend yourself. Slow and steady, with ongoing practice, you can build (or repair) your relationship with yourself. You can notice how often you second-guess the leading of your body, or you betray yourself for “belonging” or acceptance. You can wake up to all the ways you suppress your needs and mask and suppress the leading of your own spirit (or whatever you feel comfortable calling this).

The good news is that we can relearn to attune to and trust our mind-emotion-body wisdom with practice.

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The body remembers what the mind forgets.

Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen

10 POSTS TO HELP YOU ATTUNE TO AND TRUST YOUR inner WISDOM

REMEMBER: Quiet the noise of comparison, perfectionism, fear, and your mean inner critic and learn to trust yourself, attune to your inherent mind-emotion-body wisdom, and respond bravely and with compassion to what you hear.

NOW IS A PERFECT TIME TO BE HAPPY

Whether I run marathons or limp along with a cane, live in abundance or count my meagre pennies, today is a perfectly fine day to be exuberantly happy. Or quietly, solemnly happy. Read the full article here.

WE NEED PERMISSION TO FEEL IF WE WANT TO LIVE BRAVE, WHOLE AND ON PURPOSE

We need permission to feel and the ability to name emotion in order to move through it. Only by trusting our experience, and then moving through it, are we able to process, grow, and more fully become our true and healthiest selves. Read the full article here.

what to do when you have a vicious inner critic

This post is coming Autumn 2022 and in the meantime I’ll share this: The other morning I woke up afraid. Before I had really even begun my day, I opened my eyes and there she was. Catching in my throat, preventing me from pulling in a deep breath. I reluctantly said hello to Fear; she is a guest who likes to sneak in unbidden and overstay her welcome. I asked her what was up. “You’re starting to believe in yourself,” she replied. “And that never leads anywhere good. When you fall it will just hurt more.” Read the full post here.

HOW TO BE A WHOLEHEARTED HUMAN IN A MESSY WORLD

One tiny seed, tended and watered, helped me heal from feeling never being enough and helped me deepen my roots of self-awareness, self-compassion, and imperfect action. Read the full post here.

Deepening Self-Trust and BEFRIENDING THE WISDOM OF YOUR BODY

This post is coming Autumn 2022 and in the meantime, enjoy this free workshop to help you befriend the wisdom of your body. Access the workshop here.

THERE IS MORE THAN ONE RIGHT WAY TO BE HUMAN

We’re not bad, wrong or broken simply because we don’t fit into the little box we’ve been handed. There are so many ways to build a beautiful life. There are many paths to get to joy and there are many routes to wholeness. Read the full post here.

PERMISSION TO BE LESS THAN GREAT

When we disentangle our minds, hearts, and bodies from the false yet pervasive notion that we have to be the best at something we’re able to just do the work that lights us up and be who we are: athlete, teacher, biologist, healer, advocate, gardener, listener, friend. Read the full post.

HOW TO QUIET THE NOISE OF COMPARISON IN YOUR LIFE

Your symptoms of low self-worth, procrastination, fear of taking risks, people-pleasing, a mean inner critic, self-judgement, and even social anxiety, may be rooted in comparison. Read the full post here.

SIMPLE LIVING TIPS FOR THE STRESSED OUT OR RECOVERING PERFECTIONIST

I sought out kindred spirits or wisdom-filled guides for how to live an intentional lifestyle in books and later the internet. Everything appealed and nothing quite fit. I needed to quiet the noise and carve out my own path. Read the full post here.

HOW TO BUILD BRAVE BOUNDARIES WITH YOURSELF

Trust your inner wisdom by listening to or attuning to the wisdom of your body, pausing to name how it feels in your body to say yes to something you do or don’t want, and expanding your emotional vocabulary will help you set brave boundaries. Read the full post.

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NOW WHAT? resources to help you trust your inner wisdom

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the brave boundaries workshop

Learn how to reclaim your voice and build brave and life-giving boundaries that honour your wiring and demonstrate that you trust your inner wisdom and are rooted in the truth of who you are and what you want and need in this season of life. Learn how to listen to the wisdom of your body so you can set brave boundaries.

the brave + beautiful membership community

Increase your emotional intelligence, practice pausing to listen inward and attune to and trust your inner wisdom rather than seeking worth or direction from outside of yourself, and learn to recognize the voice of comparison, perfectionism, fear, shame, and judgment in the moment so you don’t let it control you. Learn more about my private community.

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I gratefully live, work, and play on Treaty 6 Territory, the traditional + ancestral territory of the Cree, Dene, Blackfoot, Saulteaux + Nakota Sioux + home to the Métis Nation.

I (Krista) am an educator and coach, not a therapist. My mind-body support is not offered to diagnose, treat, heal, cure, or prescribe for any medical condition and none of my work or writing is a replacement for therapy or medical advice.

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