Wild Souls Rising

Have you been curious about the enneagram? Whether you know your type but want to learn more, don’t yet know your type but are curious, or know about your Ennea patterns and want to know more about your partner…this is an amazing opportunity to connect and learn with your loved one via the enneagram! A one of a kind Valentine’s Day gift that will give you insights for years to come.

The tool I work with, iEQ9, has a Valentine’s Special that allows me to offer screamin’ deals on Enneagram Couple’s Reports. The report is incredibly rich — every couple I’ve done it with has been shocked at how well it captures their dynamic and how much they learned. It offers the opportunity to open conversations and improve understanding.

I’m offering two options to get your report: purchase the solo report, which you and your partner can talk through together, or schedule 2 hours with me to for a live debrief of your report, where I can offer more insight and explanation of enneagram dynamics and help facilitate the conversation with your partner.

Follow the link in my bio to learn more and purchase!

Today we got our Permiso de Residencia - Residence Permits! Feeling very official 🤓😎 To move to Spain we applied for Visas (a bit of a laborious process) and then when we arrived we went through several steps to get our residence permits. It was about a 10 month process altogether. Pretty exciting day! 🇪🇸

Christmas cookies …. No Hersheys Kisses but these little Santas did the job!

Café con leche con gofres tapas

Cary’s progress in Spanish! He wrote this sweet piece about Sullivan 🥰
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Sullivan is kind
Sullivan is strong
Sullivan is funny
Sullivan is magic

Holiday traditions continued in new places! In Seattle we always walked to get our tree from our neighborhood lot and carried it home. Here we bought our tree from the local garden store along with some gorgeous poinsettias. The tree turned out to be a real plump little friend! The boys also chose a carnivorous plant for their room 😬

First ever sweater complete! Thanks to .lupine for encouraging me

Daily walks 😍

Buenos noches, new home 🇪🇸

The pain, rage, fear, anger, helplessness the last two days of news have brought up for many of us is very real, especially for Black, Indigenous, and people of color. If you’re anything like me, you could use a way to calm your nervous system and get your prefrontal cortex back on line. Under stress and activation, we enter fight/flight/freeze states. These are three simple things you can do to get “back in your body.” (Swipe for them!)
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If you are extremely activated or having a trauma response, I do not recommend option 3, Presencing, as it may be too intense. Instead, try shaking your arms and legs, dancing, going for a walk outside, or other forms of movement to move the energy in your body. You might also try a long hug or snuggle with a safe person, which allows for co-regulation of the nervous system.
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Please take good care of yourself.

Happy New Year! Welcome, 2021.
We are entering an in-between place. A time to be purposeful and to connect to one another.
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The new year offers a time and hope for new beginnings, shifting patterns, new intentions, a reset.
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Yet, this year we are still anchored to all we’ve gone through last year in a way that is unique from other year beginnings. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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We see the possibility of the end of this pandemic 😷 but don’t have answers about when. We feel the urge to start moving forward, but feel mired in restrictions. The uncertainty and lack of control is depleting.
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At the same time, many of us have found comfort and peace in some of the new ways of being — staying at home more, slowing life down. There’s a desire to look forward but also fear of what might “go back to normal”.
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Our bodies are holding all we experienced in 2020 — the fear, anxiety, frustration, sadness, rage, deep grief — and will do until we allow our nervous systems to process these traumas.

In the next couple of weeks I’ll be hosting a session to help you hold these tensions lightly and begin to shift the energy, while in community with other amazing women. Stay tuned, and hop on my email list by visiting my website if you want to stay informed about upcoming workshops.
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May this be a beautiful year for your growth, healing, and leadership.

I hope you take a deep breath. Set down the intention-setting you meant to do for the new year, the to-do list items you didn’t get to from your last weeks of 2020. Breathe. Enjoy this little moment. It’s okay to rest now.
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We f$@&ing made it.
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Offer yourself Grace. Thank yourself for your self awareness for noticing your areas for growth that came up this year (oh yes, we were all faced with them). Celebrate the beautiful, worthy being you inherently are. Your strength, creativity, resilience.
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I love you. Here’s to a new year ❤️