Tranquility Place

01/13/2026

There’s something ancient and wordless that happens when you sit beside a cat—something your body understands before your mind can explain it. Your breath slows. Your shoulders drop. Your thoughts lose their sharp edges. You’re not trying to relax, and yet rest finds you.

What a cat offers isn’t just comfort. It’s regulation: a steady presence that gently reminds your nervous system how to return home.

Cats move through the world with a kind of inner order. Their stillness isn’t emptiness—it’s awareness. Their calm isn’t passive—it’s chosen. And when you’re near them, your body begins to mirror that rhythm. Your heartbeat listens. Your breathing learns. Your mind follows.

That’s why their presence can feel healing on days when you can’t even name what hurts. Your body responds before your thoughts catch up. It remembers how to exist without bracing. How to stay alert without fear. How to be here without being overwhelmed. In quiet company, your system relearns something simple: peace isn’t something you chase—it’s something you return to.

This is the unseen language of connection. A conversation between nervous systems. A soft exchange of calm where nothing needs to be fixed—only felt, only allowed, only trusted.

And maybe that’s their deepest gift. Not just affection. Not just companionship. But a subtle guidance back to your own natural balance.

Save this for the moments when your mind feels too loud.
Sit with a cat.
And let your body remember who it was before the world taught it to rush.

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01/10/2026

01/02/2026

This reminds us that while the calendar urges us to start fresh in January, the natural world is still in a phase of deep rest. Its significance lies in validating the instinct to slow down, turn inward, and honor winter’s quieter rhythm instead of forcing growth. It invites a gentler, more nature‑aligned understanding of beginnings, one that starts in the roots before it ever reaches the bloom.

Shamanic Journey Invitation:
“In the quiet of winter’s deep rest, what wisdom do the roots of my being want to show me about the beginnings that are forming unseen?”

This question invites you to journey into the hidden, gestating places within yourself to discover the subtle beginnings that are taking shape beneath the surface long before they bloom.

© DailyShaman/CM 2026

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“The calendar may shout ‘begin,’ but the Earth whispers ‘rest.’ In winter’s stillness, we don’t rush to bloom, we tend the roots, dream the seeds, and trust the slow magic of becoming.

01/01/2026

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12/31/2025

🧠If peri/menopause blew the lid off your “high-functioning” mask, it’s not because you suddenly got lazy or lost your edge.

🧠For years, ADHD could hide behind:
👉good grades and gold stars
👉being quiet, kind, and “no trouble”
👉overworking, over-prepping, and people-
pleasing

🧠Then hormones shift, estrogen drops, life load increases, and the same brain that was barely holding it together finally can’t compensate anymore. That’s not failure. That’s your nervous system saying, “I can’t keep white-knuckling this.”

🧠ADHD that shows up (or explodes) in peri/menopause was always there. You’re not “falling apart”, you’re finally seeing what needed support all along.

🧠If this feels like your story, you are not alone, you are not behind, and you deserve real help: evaluation, meds if needed, scaffolds, and so much compassion.

👥If you’d like, Save this for the days your brain is hanging by a thread, AND share it with the friend who’s quietly wondering, “Is it just me?”

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Love you. Surthriving With You, XO, Dr. Jen

12/30/2025

Good morning friend💖

12/27/2025