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GYLF TALK, Chicago, IL (2026)

01/01/2026

Through discipline comes freedom.
Not restriction.
Not pressure.
Structure creates space.
Consistency creates trust.
Freedom follows.

#2026

12/25/2025

Winter doesn’t erase the hard things.
It teaches us how to move through them.

Cold air. Open heart.
Light that doesn’t pretend the darkness isn’t there—
just keeps going anyway.

Grateful for moments of warmth,
for laughter in motion,
for choosing presence over perfection.

Still here. Still moving. Still grateful.

Merry Christmas!

12/19/2025

A conversation with a friend reveals…

Vulnerability isn’t weakness.
It’s discernment in action.

The risk isn’t being open.
The risk is being open in the wrong relationships.

There are communities where vulnerability is honored—
and others where it’s used as leverage.

Choose wisely.

The right relationships don’t punish honesty.
They refine it.

12/07/2025

My reflections after last week’s Q&A with Source Code Alchemy Institute — the kind of conversation that doesn’t just answer questions, it rearranges your inner landscape.

Sometimes addiction looks nothing like a substance.
Sometimes it’s the patterns we cling to when life feels overwhelming — over-doing, over-giving, rescuing, distracting, running. Anything that pulls us away from presence.
What I’m learning is this:
Reverence for my body is the way back.
Not perfection.
Not performance.
Reverence.
This body carries my resilience, my intuition, my strength to choose again.
Every time I slow down, breathe, and listen, I return to myself.
And the moment life starts to feel unmanageable?
It’s almost always because I’ve lost perspective about what is — and what is not — my responsibility.
Addiction disconnects.
Reverence reconnects.
And freedom lives in the return.

✨ Reflection:
Where are you seeking comfort that creates disconnection?
Where are you holding something that isn’t yours to carry?
What would it feel like to come back to your body today?
If you're craving grounding, presence, and powerful movement, join me for class this week.

12/03/2025

A friend told me: " A closed mouth doesn’t get fed"
and lately it feels like speaking up takes more energy than the work itself.

Updating my narrative brought up ageism, reinvention, and the old patterns of staying quiet. So I asked another friend to reflect what she sees in me… and it reminded me of something we all forget: We are stronger, wiser, and more capable than we give ourselves credit for.

Strength. Stamina. Reliability. Heart.

These are the things that carry us through the hardest seasons—not our doubts.

If you’re reinventing yourself… if you feel like you’re throwing a 1–2 punch every day just to stay afloat… you’re not alone. Keep showing up. Keep moving. Keep speaking. You’re more than you think.

✨ Reflect and share with me: What strength have you been overlooking? You will encourage others to keep going.

11/26/2025

✨ Om Mani Padme Hum ✨

Four Generations, One Moment

This photo is four generations — granddaughter, daughter, mother, grandmother — all in one frame. We didn’t arrive here through ease or perfection, and we don’t need to pretend we did. Life has layered us, shaped us, stretched us… and still, here we are.

I’ve been holding this mantra, each syllable is a gentle reminder of what’s awakening:

• Om — staying true to who you are
• Ma — choosing compassion where you can
• Ni — loosening your grip on what you can’t control
• Pad — seeing things as they really are
• Me — letting go of the need for “more”
• Hum — grounding your strength in real life

This moment isn’t about pretending everything has been easy. It’s about recognizing that even in the middle of life’s complexity, there are moments worth pausing for. Moments that remind you of where you come from, what you’ve lived through, and how much inner abundance you already carry.

Reflection:
What’s one real, honest thing you’re grateful for this week — no gloss, no filter?

Join me in this intention: gratitude that’s grounded, not forced.

11/17/2025

The Cards Don’t Lie

Last night’s Yoga Body Elements light codes event cracked something open in me — cacao, breathwork, sound healing, the whole thing. And then the cards… and wow. When the same message keeps showing up, you can’t pretend you didn’t hear it.

Come Out of the Closet.
Mother, Wife, Sister, Daughter.
Open Your Heart to Love.
Positive Change.

Four cards.
One truth:

The version of me that survived cannot be the version of me that leads the next chapter of my life.

I’ve been shedding old identities — the roles, the labels, the expectations… the versions of me that played small to keep the peace. These cards hit me right in the places I’ve been resisting:

💜 Tell the truth of who you are — even the parts you’re scared to say out loud.
💜 Heal the feminine wounds — the ones inherited, conditioned, or carried for too long.
💜 Let your heart soften — not for someone else, but because you deserve love that feels safe and aligned.
💜 Do the work you’ve been avoiding — because freedom lives in the details you keep skipping.

This isn’t about perfection or performance.
It’s about embodiment — the kind of transformation you feel in your hips, your breath, your throat, and the quiet knowing in your chest.

I’m learning that every time I choose honesty over hiding, boundaries over self-abandonment, and presence over fear… I reclaim a piece of myself.

GYLF — Get Your Life Fulfilled — isn’t a slogan.
It’s a practice.
A remembering.
A return.

If you’re in a season of shedding, shifting, or stepping into the unknown, you’re not alone. The path to freedom is rarely comfortable, but damn… it’s worth it.

Reflect with me:
What truth of yours is ready to come out of hiding?

11/16/2025

Comfort is a drug.
It numbs, soothes, distracts… until you forget you’re capable of so much more.

I’ve lived long seasons wrapped in illusion—thinking safety lived in the familiar, even when the familiar was slowly draining my power. But every time I’ve stepped out of that haze—into movement, into truth, into the discomfort of actually feeling my own life—there’s been a spark. A reminder that resilience is a muscle. Freedom is a practice. Transformation only happens when I’m willing to get uncomfortable enough to grow.

So here’s my invitation:
Notice where comfort is keeping you small.
Notice where discomfort is actually calling you forward.

Where are you ready to wake up?

11/13/2025

AI vs Reality — Acceptance in Motion

It’s easy to think life will finally feel better when we hit a certain number, size, or version of ourselves. But here’s the truth—our goals don’t define our worth. They simply keep us moving, breathing, showing up.

The photo on the left was AI-generated. The one on the right is me—real, present, alive, still learning to love every version.
We are so much more than what we see on the outside.
Our real strength comes from choosing to show up as we are, again and again.

✨ Keep coming back to you.

11/10/2025

This week, it’s do or die.
Not in the dramatic sense — in the I choose myself, no matter what sense.

Life is shifting, people are revealing themselves, and the pressure is real — and I’m still here. High-functioning. Present. Moving forward.

My 3 non-negotiables:
• Move my body
• Fuel my strength
• Protect my peace

When I stay in my body, I stay unshakeable.
When I choose perspective, I stay free.

I’ve worked too hard to lose myself now.
We go forward. We rise.
Let’s get this week started.

What’s one thing you will do daily to push your-self up?

11/06/2025

Full moon energy tonight ✨
The kind that invites you to pause… and tell the truth.
Not the story you were taught.
Not the story that protected you.
The story you’re living now.

I’ve been moving through layers of release these past few months — emotional patterns, old neural grooves, the parts of me that learned to survive instead of receive.

Divorce will do that.
Life transitions will do that.
Deep healing will absolutely do that.

Here’s what I know now — and what I teach:

Something happens → you interpret it → you feel → you react.

Most of us never learned to change the interpretation part.

So we keep reacting from the past.

This season, I’ve been choosing differently:

• I witness the trigger instead of becoming it.
• I question the story: “Is this real, or is this old?”
• I respond from presence, not defense.
• I give myself room to breathe, soften, and remember who I am.

This is the work.
Not to be perfect — but to be aware.
To choose what is true now.
To meet myself with honesty and compassion.

Oh — and to let myself feel good in my body again.
To rest.
To play.
To laugh.
To receive.
To be sensual and sovereign — in the same breath.

The moon is full tonight.
So if you’re releasing too — I’m right here with you.

What pattern are you ready to let go of?
Ask your heart. It knows. 🌙💦

🟣 Join me this week — we’ll move this work through the body.

11/05/2025

🔥 Holding on
There’s a very real moment when you realize you’ve been holding on to something that was never actually holding you.
And that moment hits like a punch.
It’s embarrassing.
It’s disorienting.
It pi**es you off.
Because you thought they were on your side.
You thought the connection was mutual.
You thought the effort meant something.
But when someone controls the temperature of the relationship — warm you up, freeze you out, repeat —
that’s not love.
That’s leverage.
And once you see it, you can’t unsee it.
Letting go isn’t graceful.
It’s not peaceful.
It’s not enlightened.
It’s sitting in your car, gripping the steering wheel, heart pounding, realizing:
I stayed longer than I should have.
It’s the anger.
The grief.
The embarrassment.
The clarity.
And then, the quiet.
Not peace — just the absence of begging.
That’s where the shift starts.
Not in some beautiful “awakening.”
But in the moment you stop participating in your own depletion.
No hero story.
Just truth.

If this hit, it probably hit for a reason.
Take a breath.
Let your body tell the truth before your mind tries to explain it away.

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