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03/09/2026

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03/09/2026

There are moments in life that feel almost surreal.

Today was one of them.

This morning I sat down and submitted my final assessments for my Spinal Flow certification. And when I hit that button, I had one of those quiet moments where time kind of pauses and you realize just how far you’ve actually come.

Because somehow… it has already been a full year.

A year of learning.
A year of practicing.
A year of watching bodies do the most incredible things when the nervous system is finally given permission to release.

And a year of falling completely in love with this work.

When I first started this journey, I knew Spinal Flow was powerful. I could feel it in my own body, and I could see something happening in the bodies of others that I hadn’t quite seen before in other modalities.

But what I didn’t fully understand yet was just how intelligent the body truly is.

Over this past year I’ve watched people’s nervous systems shift in real time. I’ve watched stress patterns unwind that have been sitting in the spine for years, sometimes decades. I’ve seen emotions release, breath deepen, posture change, and people reconnect to parts of themselves they didn’t even realize they had been disconnected from.

And every single time it happens, I still find myself sitting there in awe.

Because this work isn’t about “fixing” people.

It’s about helping the body remember how to heal.

That’s the part that still feels surreal to me.

Not that the work works…
but that our bodies were always designed to do this.

Spinal Flow simply reconnects us to the intelligence that has been there all along.

When I think back over this year, I can see so clearly now how everything in my life was leading me toward this work. My own healing journey, my understanding of the nervous system, the things I’ve lived through, the sanctuary we built for this community…

It all braided together to bring me here.

And today, submitting those final assessments felt less like an ending and more like standing at the doorway of something that is just beginning.

Now comes the waiting part. It can take up to 21 days for the certification review to come back, but we are so close now I can almost feel it.

Because the truth is, the certification doesn’t suddenly make this work real.

The work has already been happening.

Bodies have already been shifting.
People have already been healing.
Our community has already been experiencing what happens when the nervous system finally feels safe enough to release.

Today was simply the moment where the path I’ve been walking for the past year was officially acknowledged.

And if there is one thing this year has shown me, it’s this:

Our bodies are far wiser than we have ever been taught.

When the nervous system is supported…
when the spine is allowed to move…
when stress patterns are gently unwound…

the body knows exactly what to do.

Every single time.

I feel incredibly grateful today.

Grateful for the teachers who created this work.
Grateful for every client who trusted me with their nervous system as I learned.
Grateful for this community that continues to show up with open hearts.

And most of all… grateful that life led me to something that feels so deeply aligned with who I am and what I’m here to do.

Today I submitted my final certification assessments.

And while that moment felt big… the truth is the real magic has been happening all along.

One nervous system at a time.
One spine at a time.
One release at a time.

And I have a feeling we’re only just getting started.

03/09/2026

03/08/2026

Happy International Women’s Day to all of the beautiful women of our tribe.

To the women who keep showing up… even when it’s hard.
To the women who are learning to listen to their bodies, trust their intuition, and soften into their own power.

Today I honor the woman inside of you who has always been there.

The one who knew.
The one who felt things deeply.
The one who carried strength even when the world tried to convince her she was too much… or not enough.

There is a woman inside of you who has been patiently waiting to fully rise.

Not the version of you shaped by expectations, fear, or survival…
but the version that remembers who she truly is.

Strong.
Wise.
Compassionate.
Powerful beyond measure.

Every time you choose healing…
every time you choose truth…
every time you choose to stand up and rise again—

you wake her up a little more.

And I want every single one of you to see yourselves for what you truly are.

You are not broken.
You are not behind.
You are not too much.

You are the strength.

And the most beautiful thing I get to witness every day is watching women remember that.

Today we celebrate the rising of women everywhere… but especially the women of this tribe who are brave enough to do the inner work, regulate their nervous systems, release what no longer belongs to them, and step into the life they were always meant to live.

Keep rising, sisters.

The world needs the woman you are becoming. ✨

📸 credit: Moments By Taylor Photography

03/08/2026

Long Sunday Thoughts

This morning something simple happened. So simple, in fact, that it almost slipped by unnoticed.

I stepped into the shower.

The warm water hit my shoulders, steam began to fill the room, and I reached over to close the curtain — the one Jim bought for me not too long ago. It’s a curtain you can see through. Not completely transparent, but enough that the world outside the shower isn’t completely closed off.

He chose it thoughtfully. Quietly. Without a big conversation about it.

Just in case.

Standing there under the water, I suddenly realized something that stopped me in my tracks.

There was a long stretch of my life — not even that distant — when I could not take a shower alone.

My body simply wouldn’t allow it.

The moment i stepped into the shower and I was enclosed in that space, my nervous system would flip a switch. My heart would race, my breath would shorten, and panic would rise so quickly it felt like my entire body had been hijacked. My brain would scream that something was wrong. That I was trapped. That something terrible was about to happen.

Jim used to stand at the end of the shower for me during those times. Not talking much. Just there. A steady presence so my nervous system could borrow a little safety from his.

It’s strange the things we normalize when we’re in the middle of survival.

At the time, I wasn’t thinking about whether it would last forever. I was just trying to get through the moment.

But standing there today, looking through that curtain he chose for me, I realized something beautiful and quiet.

I haven’t had that kind of panic in a long time.

Not just weeks.
Not just months.

A long time.

Long enough that my body stopped remembering that space as something dangerous.

And the truth is… I didn’t even notice when the shift happened.

Because healing doesn’t always arrive with fireworks.

Sometimes it arrives years later in a quiet shower when your body casually does something it once believed it couldn’t survive.

Panic is one of the nervous system’s most powerful survival responses. The nervous system has one main job — to keep us alive. It is constantly scanning the environment for danger. Not just physical danger, but emotional and energetic signals too.

When the system believes something isn’t safe, it activates protection. Heart rate increases. Breathing becomes shallow. Muscles tighten. Adrenaline moves through the body. The brain sends a message that something is wrong and the body prepares to escape.

But sometimes the nervous system gets stuck in high alert.

Long periods of stress, trauma, overwhelm, or emotional strain can teach the body to remain guarded even when danger is no longer present. The body begins to interpret normal situations as threats. Being alone. Closed spaces. Driving. Sleeping. Even something as simple as taking a shower.

The body doesn’t know the difference between a real tiger and a perceived one. It only knows that it has learned to protect.

So panic rises.

Not because someone is weak.
Not because they are broken.

But because their nervous system has been holding a tremendous amount of protection for a long time.

What fascinates me most — and something I see every day through the work I do with practicing Spinal Flow — is that the body doesn’t only remember danger.

It remembers safety too.

When the body experiences moments of regulation, connection, and release, the nervous system slowly updates its map of the world. Layer by layer it begins to realize that it doesn’t need to hold the same level of protection anymore.

It learns it can soften.

And this is part of why I do the work that I do.

Not because I read about it in a book.
Not because someone told me it worked.

But because I have lived it.

I have felt what it’s like when your nervous system is so overwhelmed that even something as simple as standing in the shower can feel impossible. I know what it feels like when panic takes over your body and you don’t understand why.

And I also know what it feels like when the body finally begins to release it.

When the nervous system slowly starts remembering safety again.

This doesn’t happen all at once. It happens in small moments over time. Moments where the body feels supported. Moments where the spine unwinds tension. Moments where the nervous system realizes it can exhale.

And then one day, without ceremony, you step into the shower and realize the panic that once ruled that space is gone.

Healing rarely looks the way we expect it to.

It’s not always dramatic.
It’s not always a breakthrough moment we can point to.

Sometimes healing is simply the absence of something that once controlled your life.

A quiet realization that your body no longer needs the defense it once held so tightly.

And when awareness finally catches up with that healing, there is a deep gratitude that settles in.

Not just for the progress.

But for the people who stood at the end of the shower when you couldn’t do it alone.

And for the incredible intelligence of the body that kept trying, again and again, to find its way back to safety.

Today I realized something I hadn’t been consciously thinking about.

My nervous system found its way out of a place that once felt impossible.

And if your body is in a place right now where panic still visits, please know this.

Your nervous system isn’t broken.

It’s protecting you.

And with the right support, patience, and space to release what it has been holding, the body remembers how to soften again.

Sometimes so quietly that you only realize it years later, standing in the shower, looking through a curtain someone who loves you chose — just in case. 🫶

03/07/2026

Becoming Wild Enough to Receive

Sometimes the Universe shows us something we already know deep inside our bones.

Not because we need new information…
but because we need the reminder to trust it.

When I sat with the cards this morning, the message was incredibly clear.

Wild and Wonderful.
Receiving It All.
Authenticity Attracts.
Energetic Pull.
You Will Get There.
Wisdom.
Growth.
Harmony.

At first glance it looks like a collection of beautiful affirmations.

But when you slow down and really sit with them, a much deeper story begins to unfold.

It is the story of becoming.

For many of us, life begins with a quiet taming.

We learn how to behave.
How to hold ourselves together.
How to push down our feelings.
How to ignore the signals our bodies send.

Somewhere along the way we forget that we were meant to be wild in the most beautiful sense of the word.

Wild enough to trust our instincts.
Wild enough to listen to our bodies.
Wild enough to live authentically instead of performing for the world.

And the moment we start returning to that place, something begins to change.

Our lives start to rearrange themselves.

Authenticity has a way of doing that.

When you become fully yourself, the right people begin to recognize you. The wrong situations begin to fall away. Opportunities that once felt impossible suddenly start appearing in the most unexpected ways.

Not because you forced them.

But because your energy finally matches the life that was trying to find you.

That’s the energetic pull.

It’s the quiet knowing that something is unfolding, even if you don’t have the full map yet.

This is the place where so many people get uncomfortable.

We want certainty.
We want guarantees.
We want proof before we move forward.

But real growth rarely works that way.

Growth asks us to walk forward with wisdom instead.

And wisdom doesn’t come from knowing everything.

It comes from experience.

From the hard seasons.
From the lessons we didn’t want.
From the moments that shaped us into someone stronger, softer, and more aware than we were before.

The raven in this spread represents that perfectly.

Ravens have long been seen as keepers of knowledge, guides between worlds, symbols of transformation and deep inner intelligence.

In many ways, they represent the person who has walked through enough of life to become a guide for others.

But even guides are still growing.

And that’s where the final card in this spread becomes the most important.

Harmony.

Harmony is not perfection.

Harmony is balance.

It’s what happens when we stop fighting every phase of our own evolution.

When we allow the body to release what it has been holding.

When we trust that every step of the journey — even the messy ones — is shaping the person we are becoming.

Growth and peace can exist at the same time.

Expansion and rest can live in the same space.

You can be becoming something new while still honoring exactly where you are.

And when that balance begins to settle in…

Life starts to feel different.

Not because everything around you changes overnight.

But because something inside you finally finds its rhythm.

So if there is one thing this spread reminds us of, it is this:

You are allowed to be wild in your becoming.

You are allowed to trust the pull of your own life.

You are allowed to grow.

And when you do…

Harmony will always find its way back to you.

03/07/2026

Yesterday during a session a client shared something that really stuck with me.

Her body had released some energy during Spinal Flow (practice), and afterward emotions started surfacing. Instead of letting them move through, she said she kept thinking about them… over and over. Trying to understand them. Trying to figure out what they meant.

And I asked her something simple.

Why are we creating stories around it?

Why do we do that to ourselves?

Why do we take an energy that rises in the body — something that is literally trying to leave us — and then grab it with both hands and start picking it apart with a fine-tooth comb?

Why do we keep revisiting it?

Breaking it down.

Replaying it.

Trying to analyze every tiny detail of what we felt and why we felt it.

It’s like this sick cycle carousel we put ourselves on.

Round and round.

The mind keeps spinning the ride.

You want to get off… but somehow you stay on because you’ve convinced yourself that if you just keep thinking about it long enough you’ll find the answer.

You’ll solve the mystery.

You’ll finally understand.

But the truth is most of the time there is nothing to solve.

Your nervous system already did the intelligent thing.

It released something.

When we’re doing Spinal Flow and the nervous system begins to unwind layers of stored stress, emotions can rise to the surface. That doesn’t mean something is wrong. It means something is finally moving.

But the mind has a habit.

Instead of letting the wave pass through, it grabs it and says:

Where did this come from?
What does this mean?
What memory is this connected to?

And suddenly what was simply energy leaving the body becomes a full story.

When someone gets stuck in that loop of thinking and analyzing, we often see it connected to the Pause Gateway — where the mind struggles to slow down and trust stillness.

And sometimes it’s tied to the Foundation Gateway, where the nervous system is still holding survival patterns from the past. So when energy rises, the brain immediately goes backward looking for explanations.

But healing doesn’t always come from revisiting the past.

Sometimes healing comes from something much simpler.

Feeling the wave.

Letting it move.

And allowing the nervous system to complete what it started.

Your body is incredibly intelligent. It knows how to release stress, emotion, and tension when it finally feels safe enough to do so.

But when we keep attaching stories to every feeling that surfaces, we trap ourselves on that sick cycle carousel.

Round and round we go.

Thinking.

Analyzing.

Replaying.

Instead of just stepping off the ride.

And here’s the truth most of us need to hear at some point:

Sometimes you’ve just got to tuck and roll and get off the damn ride.

Not gracefully.

Not perfectly.

Just stop gripping the bar of the story you’ve been holding onto and let yourself drop out of the loop.

Because the ride only keeps spinning as long as we keep climbing back on.

Sometimes the bravest thing we can do is let the story fall away and trust the intelligence of the body.

Notice the feeling.

Breathe.

Feel it.

Let it move.

And let it go.

You don’t have to analyze every emotion.

You don’t have to keep reliving every moment of the past.

And you definitely don’t have to keep carrying something your body is finally ready to release.

Sometimes healing is simply this.

Feel it.

Release it.

Tuck and roll.

And get off the sick cycle carousel. 🫶

03/06/2026

Ostara Rituals to Welcome Spring

The Spring Equinox, known as Ostara, is the moment when day and night stand in perfect balance. It marks the turning point where light begins to take the lead again, the Earth awakens from winter, and new life begins to stir beneath the soil.

This is a powerful time for renewal, intention, and gentle rebirth.

Just as nature begins to bloom again, we are invited to reconnect with our bodies, release what the winter held, and plant the seeds of what we want to grow in the months ahead.

Here are a few simple rituals you can do at home to honor the energy of the season.

1. The Balance Ritual

Because Ostara represents balance between light and dark, this ritual helps bring your body and mind back into harmony.

Light a candle and sit quietly for a few moments.

Take slow breaths and notice the rhythm of your inhale and exhale. Let your body soften.

Place one hand over your heart and one over your belly and say:

“I welcome balance within myself.
I honor both the light and the dark that have shaped me.”

Sit in stillness for a few minutes and allow your nervous system to settle.

2. The Seed Intention Ritual

Spring is the season of planting.

Take a seed, small plant, or even a flower.

Spend a moment reflecting on what you want to grow in your life this season.

It might be:
• healing
• courage
• peace
• creativity
• deeper connection
• personal growth

Hold the seed or plant and say:

“Just as this seed will grow, so will the intentions I place into my life.”

Plant it in soil or place the flower somewhere in your home as a reminder of your intention.

3. The Renewal Water Ritual

Water symbolizes cleansing, emotional release, and new beginnings.

Fill a small bowl with water.

Dip your fingers into the water and gently touch your forehead, your heart, and your hands.

As you do, imagine anything heavy from the past season washing away.

Say quietly:

“I release what no longer belongs to me.
I welcome the renewal of this new season.”

Let the water carry away what you’re ready to let go of.

4. The Spring Clearing Ritual

Ostara is also a time to clear space for new growth.

Write down something you are ready to release from the past season.

This could be:
• a limiting belief
• emotional weight
• an old story you’ve been holding onto
• a habit that no longer serves you

Tear up the paper, burn it safely, or bury it in the earth.

Let the act symbolize making room for what is ready to grow.

5. The Light Welcome Ritual

Light a candle in the evening and take a moment to reflect on the return of the light.

Notice how the flame illuminates the space around it.

Say:

“I welcome the light returning to my life.
I trust the unfolding of this new season.”

Let this be a reminder that no matter how long winter has felt, the light always returns.

The Heart of Ostara

Ostara reminds us that life moves in cycles.

After stillness comes movement.
After darkness comes light.
After winter comes growth.

Just as the Earth remembers how to bloom again, your body and spirit remember how to rise.

This season is your invitation to begin again. 🌱

03/06/2026

Most people today are living in survival mode and don’t even realize it.

Constant stimulation.
Constant stress.
Constant scrolling.

We’ve gotten so used to pushing through life that many of us rarely stop long enough to check in with our own bodies.

So we’re creating something new at Serenity One Sanctuary.

The Sanctuary Circle.

Beginning this month, every second Saturday 10AM - 11AM, we will gather as a community to slow down, reconnect, and learn how to better support our nervous systems through the things we’re navigating in life.

This isn’t a class.

It’s a conversation, a connection point, and a space to grow together.

Some months we’ll explore how stress shows up in the body.
Some months we’ll talk about processing emotions instead of suppressing them.
Other times we’ll simply sit together and reconnect with ourselves in a world that rarely gives us the space to do that.

At the end of each gathering, Cristie will offer a short sound integration to help the body settle and bring the nervous system into a state of rest.

But the heart of this circle is community.

Learning.
Sharing.
Supporting each other.

Because healing doesn’t happen alone.

It happens when people come together with honesty and openness.

The Sanctuary Circle
Second Saturday of each month 10-11
Serenity One Sanctuary
Led by Chelsie • Beth • Cristie
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Come sit with us.

This is how we RISE.

Stay tuned for announcement 📣

03/06/2026

Somewhere out there,
someone is finally letting their body release instead of holding everything together-
and the world feels a little lighter there.