Eyes wide open

Eyes wide open Eyes Wide Open is here to guide you through a journey of self-discovery and healing. All services are by appointment only.

Using breathwork, Somatic movement and Holistic Coaching we help you reset your nervous system, release emotional blockages, and reconnect with your body’s wisdom. Feel free to message us regarding any questions you might have regarding services provided.

You Don’t Have to Carry This Alone✨There’s a moment many of us reachwhere awareness isn’t the problem anymore.You know w...
01/03/2026

You Don’t Have to Carry This Alone✨

There’s a moment many of us reach
where awareness isn’t the problem anymore.

You know what hurts.
You know what patterns keep repeating.
You know something needs to shift.

And still — it feels heavy.

That’s because healing isn’t meant to be done alone.

We were never meant to hold everything inside our own nervous systems.
We were meant to be met.
To be witnessed.
To be supported while our bodies learn that it’s safe to soften.

If you’re feeling tired of “doing the work” by yourself,
nothing is wrong with you.
It may simply be time for a different kind of support.

The kind that doesn’t rush you.
The kind that doesn’t try to fix you.
The kind that sits with you long enough
for your system to remember how to breathe again.

You don’t need more insight today.
You don’t need another breakthrough.
You don’t need to push.

You might just need someone to walk with you for a while.

And when you’re ready,
support doesn’t have to feel overwhelming or invasive.
It can feel steady.
Grounded.
Human.

You’re not behind.
You’re not failing.
You’re responding exactly as a nervous system does
when it’s been holding a lot for a long time.

You don’t have to carry it alone anymore.
🤍✨

A SOFTER WAY FORWARDAs the evening settles, we want to name something gently.Many of you have been doing so much inner w...
01/03/2026

A SOFTER WAY FORWARD

As the evening settles, we want to name something gently.

Many of you have been doing so much inner work.
Reflecting.
Processing.
Holding yourself together through a lot of change.

And while awareness matters, healing doesn’t happen in isolation.

It happens in moments of support.
In spaces where your nervous system can settle.
In relationships where you don’t have to explain or perform or push.

Here at Eyes Wide Open, this space has always been about presence —
about walking with you, not ahead of you.
About offering steadiness when things feel overwhelming.
About reminding you that you don’t have to carry everything alone.

As this year unfolds, we’re beginning to open new ways to support you more directly —
slowly, intentionally, and with care.

Not tonight.
Not all at once.
Just in a way that honors your timing and your capacity.

For now, let this be an evening to rest.
To exhale.
To know that support exists — and that when you’re ready, it will meet you gently.

We’re here.
And we’re not going anywhere.
🤍✨

— Eyes Wide Open

Let the Year Meet You✨The new year doesn’t need you to rush into it.It doesn’t need declarations or dramatic change.It d...
01/02/2026

Let the Year Meet You✨

The new year doesn’t need you to rush into it.
It doesn’t need declarations or dramatic change.
It doesn’t need you to be more motivated, more healed, or more certain.

It just needs you here.

This is the part no one talks about —
the days after the excitement,
when the noise fades,
and what’s left is you and the quiet awareness
that something new has begun.

You’re allowed to arrive slowly.
To feel hopeful and unsure at the same time.
To move forward without knowing exactly where you’re headed yet.

New beginnings aren’t loud.
They’re subtle.
They show up as small shifts, honest choices,
and a willingness to meet yourself differently than before.

Let this year meet you gently.
Let it unfold through presence, not pressure.
Let hope be something you carry — not something you chase.

You are not behind.
You are not late.
You are already in motion.

The future doesn’t need to be forced.
It’s already opening.
🤍✨

01/01/2026

HELLO JANUARY ✨🎆🩵

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Today is more than a date change.It’s a doorway.A new day.A new year.A new opportunity to meet yourself — and your life ...
01/01/2026

Today is more than a date change.
It’s a doorway.

A new day.
A new year.
A new opportunity to meet yourself — and your life — with fresh eyes.

You don’t need to rush forward.
You don’t need to have everything figured out.
You don’t need to carry yesterday’s weight into today.

This moment is an invitation.
To breathe a little deeper.
To believe, even gently, that the future is still unfolding in your favor.
To remember that hope doesn’t have to be loud to be real.

A new year doesn’t erase what you’ve lived —
it builds on it.
It offers you space to choose again.
To create new structures.
To move toward what feels more aligned, more supportive, more true.

Today, welcome possibility.
Welcome growth.
Welcome the version of yourself that is still becoming.

You are not late.
You are not behind.
You are exactly where a new beginning can begin.

Here’s to the day.
Here’s to the year.
Here’s to the future — still wide open.
🤍✨



As the evening settles in and the year draws to a close,we want to pause and honor this moment with you.However you’re s...
01/01/2026

As the evening settles in and the year draws to a close,
we want to pause and honor this moment with you.

However you’re spending tonight —
in celebration, in reflection, in quiet, or in company —
know that this season holds room for all of it.

This past year has asked much of us.
It has shaped us, stretched us, and taught us things
we couldn’t have learned any other way.
And as a new year approaches,
there is no rush to define what comes next.

Tonight is about presence.
About gratitude for what carried you here.
About releasing what no longer needs to follow you forward.
About trusting that whatever is unfolding
will meet you in time.

From all of us at Eyes Wide Open,
we’re wishing you an evening filled with warmth, safety, and meaning —
whatever that looks like for you.

May you step into the new year
a little lighter,
a little clearer,
and deeply supported.

Happy Holidays,
and Happy New Year. 🤍✨
Eyes Wide Open

Closing the Nine, Stepping Into the One ✨We are closing a 9-year —and that matters more than most people realize.A nine-...
12/31/2025

Closing the Nine, Stepping Into the One ✨

We are closing a 9-year —
and that matters more than most people realize.

A nine-year is not light.
It is not surface-level.
It is a year of completion, culmination, and deep soul accounting.

Nine holds everything:
the lessons that changed you,
the grief that shaped you,
the versions of yourself you had to outgrow,
the endings you didn’t choose but survived anyway.

A nine-year asks us to integrate —
to make meaning without forcing it,
to release without erasing what mattered,
to honor how much it took to get here.

If this year felt heavy, emotional, clarifying, or exhausting,
it’s because it was meant to be.
Nine is the closing of a long chapter.
It is the final exhale after years of becoming.

And now…
we stand at the threshold of a 1-year.

One is not about mastery.
It’s about beginning.

It carries innocence, courage, and possibility.
It asks for movement before certainty.
Choice before perfection.
Trust before proof.

A one-year doesn’t need you to have it all figured out.
It only asks that you show up —
lighter than before,
wiser than you were,
and willing to take the first honest step forward.

This moment between nine and one is sacred.
It’s the bridge between who you’ve been
and who you’re quietly becoming.

So take a breath here.
Honor what you’re leaving behind.
Thank it for what it taught you — even if it hurt.

And as you step into what’s next,
remember this:

You are not starting over.
You are starting from experience.

That is powerful.
That is magic.
That is real. ✨🤍



At the Threshold We are standing at a powerful threshold.Behind us is the Year of the Snake —a year of shedding skins we...
12/30/2025

At the Threshold

We are standing at a powerful threshold.

Behind us is the Year of the Snake —
a year of shedding skins we could no longer survive in.
A year of release, endings, truth-telling, and quiet transformation.
The Snake doesn’t rush change —
it sheds what no longer fits,
even when the process is uncomfortable,
even when it’s lonely,
even when it asks us to let go of versions of ourselves we once needed.

This year asked us to empty.
To release what was outdated.
To confront what could no longer come with us.

And now, we stand at the edge of what’s next.

Ahead of us is the Year of the Horse —
movement, freedom, momentum, and forward motion.
The Horse carries energy that says:
You don’t need to drag the past with you to prove how far you’ve come.
It’s about direction.
Alignment.
Trusting your legs again after standing still for so long.

This shift is mirrored in the closing of a 9-year cycle
and the opening of a 1-year.

Nine is completion.
Integration.
Wisdom earned through experience.
It’s the quiet exhale after a long chapter.

One is initiation.
New beginnings.
The courage to step forward without needing all the answers first.

We are not meant to sprint into this next season.
We are meant to arrive — lighter, clearer, more honest.

As these days unfold, let yourself honor what you’re leaving behind
without clinging to it.
And let yourself feel into what wants to move through you next
without forcing it into form too soon.

This is a sacred pause.
A moment of recalibration.
A reminder that endings and beginnings often overlap.

Stand at the precipice.
Feel your footing.
The next chapter isn’t asking you to be ready —
only willing.

🤍✨



This week doesn’t need a strong start — it needs an honest one.”There’s a particular kind of Monday that arrivesafter th...
12/29/2025

This week doesn’t need a strong start — it needs an honest one.”

There’s a particular kind of Monday that arrives
after the holidays
and before the new year —
a quiet one.

The rush has softened.
The expectations haven’t fully returned.
And for a moment, you’re standing in between
who you’ve been
and who you’re becoming.

You don’t need to push today.
You don’t need to set intentions or make plans.
You don’t need to turn this moment into momentum.

This week can begin gently.
With awareness instead of urgency.
With compassion instead of pressure.
With small, honest steps instead of big declarations.

There is wisdom in starting slowly.
There is strength in listening before acting.
There is magic in letting the next chapter
form naturally instead of forcing it into shape.

If today feels tender, quiet, or unremarkable —
let it be.
Not every beginning needs to be loud
to be meaningful.

You’re allowed to enter this week
exactly as you are.
The rest will unfold in its own time. 🤍✨



The In-Between Magic“There’s a rare kind of magic in the days between what was and what’s coming.”This Sunday sits in a ...
12/28/2025

The In-Between Magic

“There’s a rare kind of magic in the days between what was and what’s coming.”

This Sunday sits in a sacred in-between.
The holidays have softened and passed.
The new year hasn’t arrived with its expectations yet.
And for a moment, there is space —
to breathe,
to listen,
to simply be.

You don’t need resolutions today.
You don’t need to decide who you’ll become.
You don’t need to rush into clarity or productivity.

This moment isn’t about doing more.
It’s about noticing what remains
after the noise fades.

What feels lighter.
What feels truer.
What feels ready to be carried forward
with more care and less pressure.

There is magic here —
in slowing down,
in trusting the pause,
in allowing the next chapter
to take shape gently instead of being forced.

As this new week begins,
let yourself rest in the not-knowing.
Let yourself honor how far you’ve come.
Let yourself move toward what’s next
with curiosity instead of urgency.

You don’t need to have it all figured out
to be exactly where you’re meant to be.

This in-between matters.
And so do you. 🤍✨



“If you feel strangely tired after the holidays, this is for you.”When the celebrations quiet down and the noise fades,m...
12/26/2025

“If you feel strangely tired after the holidays, this is for you.”

When the celebrations quiet down and the noise fades,
many of us finally feel it —
the exhaustion,
the tenderness,
the emotional aftershock of holding everything together.

There is nothing wrong with you for feeling this way.
Your nervous system has been on high alert —
managing expectations, emotions, conversations, memories, and meaning.
Now it’s asking for space to settle.

This is what decompression looks like.
Not productivity.
Not clarity.
Just a gentle return to yourself.

You don’t need to rush into “normal.”
You don’t need to evaluate how the holidays went.
You don’t need to fix what came up.

Let your body rest.
Let your breath slow.
Let yourself be quiet without explanation.

Healing isn’t always active.
Sometimes it’s the permission to soften,
to feel without reacting,
to give your system time to recalibrate.

If today feels slow, heavy, or strangely empty,
trust that this too is part of the process.
You’re not behind.
You’re unwinding.

Be gentle with yourself.
Your nervous system is doing exactly what it’s meant to do. 🤍✨



Some people smile through Christmaswhile quietly breaking inside.They show up.They participate.They laugh at the right m...
12/25/2025

Some people smile through Christmas
while quietly breaking inside.

They show up.
They participate.
They laugh at the right moments.
They hold everything together
because it feels easier than explaining the ache.

Holiday grief doesn’t always look like tears.
Sometimes it looks like strength.
Like showing up anyway.
Like being the one who keeps things moving
while your heart feels heavy and unseen.

You can miss someone
and still sit at the table.
You can grieve what was, what isn’t, or what never got to be
and still wrap gifts, answer questions, and say “I’m okay.”

If this season hurts —
you’re not weak.
You’re not broken.
You’re human.

Grief doesn’t need to be fixed today.
It doesn’t need to be justified or compared.
It just needs space.
To be acknowledged.
To be seen.
To be heard.

You are allowed to be sad.
You are allowed to carry love and loss at the same time.
You are allowed to give yourself the compassion
you so freely offer everyone else.

If you’re smiling while dying inside,
please know this:
your pain is valid,
your experience matters,
and you deserve a place where your grief can breathe.

Give yourself permission
to be seen — even if only by yourself —
and to let what’s heavy exist without shame.

You don’t have to carry this alone.
And you don’t have to be “okay” to belong. 🤍



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