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11/12/2025

Sometimes, you might reach a plateau in your growth because you’re standing in your own way.

In what ways have you been unknowingly sabotaging your own growth? Often, you can’t see your own blind spots, so it might be a good step to ask those closest to you if you have any areas where you could continue to grow. The conversation might be encouraging or enlightening. Either way, you grow.

Thank you to Henry Cloud for the amazing growth tips!

11/11/2025

In case you wonder why I treat things a little different 🙃
The Connection Between Jaw Position, Posture, and Balance: What Science Says

Recent research suggests that the position of the lower jaw (mandible) plays a crucial role in overall posture and balance. While this may seem surprising, the jaw is closely linked to the musculoskeletal system through the temporomandibular joint (TMJ), cranial nerves, and even muscle chains that extend down the body.

The Science Behind Jaw Position and Posture

Studies have shown that an imbalanced or misaligned jaw can influence head position, neck muscle tension, and spinal alignment. A study published in Clinical Biomechanics found that alterations in jaw position can affect cervical spine posture, leading to compensatory changes in body alignment. When the lower jaw is misaligned, it can cause asymmetrical muscle activity in the neck and shoulders, potentially leading to postural imbalances.

Additionally, research in Gait & Posture has
demonstrated that jaw clenching or dysfunction in the TMJ can impact balance and stability. The study found that participants with TMJ disorders had increased postural sway, suggesting that jaw alignment plays a role in neuromuscular control.

How Jaw Position Affects Balance

The connection between the jaw and balance is likely due to the nervous system’s integration of proprioception (body awareness). The TMJ is closely related to the trigeminal nerve, which interacts with other sensory systems responsible for posture and equilibrium. Dysfunction in the jaw can lead to altered neural input, affecting how the body maintains stability.

Like my mentor says, "Find the pain and look elsewhere for the cause."

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11/10/2025

At bare minimum, if you do this, you're training your brain to look for more beautiful things. 😍

Do that enough times, and your brain will actually "rewire" itself, finding beautiful things quicker and more efficiently. It will become a habit, with enough practice.

Habits can serve us beautifully. When they're in the "healthful" category. Brushing our teeth. Moving our body. Consuming substances that provide us lasting nourishment. All of these are habits.

The more you focus on the good habits, the more good habits you will create. The more good habits you feel you have, the healthier and more joyful you feel. Seems like a win-win to me. 😉

11/10/2025

If you want to feel different, you're going to have to do something different. It's just how it goes. And you know what? 😏 It gets easier with time.

11/09/2025

I love her tip in the second paragraph!! ✨️💕🤣
🤔 The concept is: Reading allows more space for you to interpret information rather than allowing someone else's emotions or marketing manipulation to sway your truth. And reading from multiple sources, and even multiple countries, can offer different perspectives. This offers you more information so that you can make a more educated decision. And hopefully one that aligns with your inner truth.

Whenever I share that I'm taking a break from the news, someone always tells me that it's important to stay informed. I agree. Kind of. It is important to stay informed but not on an hourly basis or even a daily basis. When I'm over-informed (a.k.a. overwhelmed), I can't take effective action about the things I care about.

It's also important to consider how you are informed. I don't "watch" the news or news clips or video shared online. I read the news. I choose what I let into my heart and soul and how I let it in.

If you are feeling overwhelmed, take a break from the news, social media and the internet whenever you want. Being uninformed for a minute allows you to feel the way you want to feel instead of living in a reactionary state 24/7.

11/09/2025

An interesting practice I did years back, at the request of my business coach at the time, was to write your own eulogy. What would you like people to say about you when you pass?

It puts things into a different perspective and can be incredibly powerful when you use it as a self reflection tool.

So, why not use this as our 🤔 ✨️💕✨️

How would you like to be remembered after you pass? What does that say about your values and character? ... and now for the "tough love" question, are you living in a way that would inspire people to say those things about you currently? If not, what do you need to do to bring yourself back into alignment? Can you make an affirmation/reminder to help you change?

Take some time to write in a journal, on a piece of paper, talk this out with a loved one, or simply use as food for thought as you go about your day. 🙌

Thank you for joining me for 🙌❤

✨Join us every Sunday for soulful prompts to encourage you to go deeper and create the life of your dreams. ✨

11/09/2025

TO THE WOMAN WHO THINKS SHE ISN’T GOOD ENOUGH

To the woman who looks around and wonders why everyone else is so much more capable, so much stronger, so much more ambitious than her.

To the woman who thinks everyone else is blazing a fiery path through this thing we call life, while she limps behind, barely getting through the days.

Somewhere, another woman is looking at you thinking exactly the same.

You see, we all look like we’re kinda nailing it, from the outside in.

We all look ‘together’ sometimes.
Catch us on the right day and hey, we look like we have it all.
Because guess what, we learned to look that way a long time ago.
We learned to hide our struggles behind a smile and whack on that mask every day.

And actually, we are doing each other a favour when we show up,
just as we are,
warts and all,
late,
flustered,
human.

What we really need to see is that we are all the same.
We all struggle.
We all fall apart.

Some days we nail it, other days we get nailed.

By hiding our own weaknesses, fears, worries, we give them more power.
If you let it out, shine a light on it all, it becomes so much less scary, funny even…
And goodness only knows we need to laugh.

So, to the woman who wonders if she is good enough…

If this is you.
Yes you are.
You always were.

You don’t have to live up to everyone’s expectation of how you should be coping.
You are human, flawed, wonderful, miraculous, loveable, loved.

I see you,

Now do me a favour and go see all the others too.
Spread the word, we are good enough, just as we are.

📝 Donna Ashworth

🎨 ART by Holly Wilmeth

11/08/2025

🥁🥁 Open House Gift Basket Winner!! 🥁🥁 for our Relax & Renew Open House

11/08/2025

This is pretty brilliant. 💡

11/08/2025

It's ok to feel what comes up when you come back into your body. 💆🏼‍♀️

What do we mean by "come back into your body"?

It means that most of us walk around living in our heads. We think soooo much. Plan soooo much. Do soooo much. Worry sooo much. Reminisce sooo much. So much so that we often times don't even hear or acknowledge the issues happening in our body.

Coming back into your body is a practice of reconnecting with yourself. Of taking the time to be aware of what's going on in your body and trying to live there as much as possible.

Signs of living in your head:
- Poor spatial awareness or bumping into things more than normal
- Not being aware of tension in your body until 1) It starts screaming at you or 2) Someone tells you how tight you are.
- Incredible amounts of head tension or feeling like your head weighs more than 15 lbs.

If any of the above sound like you, I invite you to pause and "drop back into yourself." Take some deep breaths and shift your awareness to your neck to begin. Breathe until you feel connected to your neck. Then shift your awareness to your shoulders, while breathing and feeling the fullness of this space. Keep moving down your body, breathing and connecting with yourself deeper. 😇 Knowing that you are connecting as best you can in this moment. And that with practice, you'll get better and better at this.

11/08/2025

🤔 What if....?

Artist credit: Sophia Joan Short