Warrior Flow

12/04/2025

I just published a new essay titled In Praise of Rock Bottom. It explores how what we often label as failure, collapse, or loss of identity may actually be a necessary point of contact with something real. Drawing from geology, physics, and lived experience, the piece reframes rock bottom not as a moral verdict but as solid ground. A place where the digging ends and a different kind of becoming begins.

This essay is for those who have experienced free fall, shedding roles, certainty, and false stability. It is a reflection on surrender, humility, and what can emerge when control gives way to honesty.

If you have ever felt broken or lost only to discover something quieter and truer underneath, this piece is for you.

On what holds when everything else lets go

11/12/2025

In 2020, after years of living with the grief of losing my mom, I traveled to New York to take an in-person training with INELDA, the International End of Life Doula Association. That training deeply shaped the way I see life and death.

It helped me understand grief, continue processing my own, and discover a calling to support others through the final stages of life. As an end-of-life doula, I began volunteering in hospices, sitting at the bedside of those who had no family or friends, where the simple presence of a doula or volunteer could make all the difference.

If I hadn’t invested in that training, I would probably still be carrying so many unanswered questions and buried feelings.

Today, it feels full circle to join the INELDA team as an Educator Assistant. I am honored to keep learning, to grow within trauma-informed end-of-life care, and to continue walking alongside others in moments of deep transition and meaning.

10/20/2025

Hi friends,

Tonight, Monday at 7 PM ET, I will be teaching my free weekly class on ShareWell.

For those who are not familiar with it, ShareWell is a peer support platform that began during the pandemic. It offers many free support groups each week, and when you register, you also receive a free coaching group session.

Tonight’s class will be a relaxing and laid-back slow flow focused on gentle movement and stretching.
If you would like to join, here is the link:

Struggling with mental health? ShareWell provides online peer support, a proven mental health alternative for therapy. Get group support when you need it.

10/15/2025

The vesica piscis is two circles overlapping, creating an almond-shaped space called the mandorla.

It is where opposites meet, where tension turns into creation.
In a divided world, perhaps the invitation is not to win but to reframe where we stand.

What if healing begins in the overlap, the small space between my world and yours?

✴️ Read the full essay “Vesica Piscis: Reframe Where You Stand” now on Substack.

Finding Wholeness in a Divided World

10/06/2025

Hi Friends 👋🏻

Starting today Monday at 7 pm ET I will be teaching Mindful Movement on ShareWell every week.

ShareWell is a free online platform where anyone can join peer support groups on hundreds of life topics.

My class offers a gentle and grounding space to move, breathe, and reflect together through yoga, breath awareness, and community.

You can join for free using the link below.👇

Struggling with mental health? ShareWell provides online peer support, a proven mental health alternative for therapy. Get group support when you need it.

10/06/2025

Integration does not erase our struggles or our differences. It allows us to live honestly, with all our parts, and to extend that same acceptance to others. This is the path toward connection and belonging.

👉 To learn more about this topic, you can read my essay “All Parts Welcome.”

https://adrianmolina1979.substack.com/p/all-parts-welcome-a-map-to-our-inner

👉 For those interested in taking a break and doing meaningful work, you can join me at the Smoky Mountains retreat October 29 - November 3.

https://adrianmolina1979.substack.com/p/the-great-smoky-mountains-with-adrian

09/29/2025

Compassion is not just for others. It begins inside. Every part of us has a purpose, even the difficult ones. When we listen instead of pushing away, we begin to understand ourselves in a new way.

👉 To learn more about this topic, you can read my essay “All Parts Welcome.”

https://adrianmolina1979.substack.com/p/all-parts-welcome-a-map-to-our-inner

👉 For those interested in taking a break and doing meaningful work, you can join me at the Smoky Mountains retreat October 29 - November 3.

https://adrianmolina1979.substack.com/p/the-great-smoky-mountains-with-adrian

09/28/2025

I often reflect on my internal programming of wanting good things to arrive quickly and bad things to go away. This goes for us as a society too. The moment something unpredictable causes a rupture, reminding us we're not in control, chaos emerges and we get lost in scripts that have no validity. I think it's important not to dwell on moments of rupture and chaos, whether personal or societal, but also not to rush through them without recognizing how crucial they are for our growth, resilience and survival. These moments can open doors to deeper understanding and, in time, help us live with awe and appreciation. That's what my latest essay "Rupture, Chaos and Awe" explores.

Embracing the Cycles That Transform Us

09/22/2025

Inside us live many voices, each carrying a story of survival or hope. Parts work offers language for this inner experience, but the message is simple. We can learn to meet every part with curiosity and kindness.

👉 To learn more about this topic, you can read my essay “All Parts Welcome.”

https://adrianmolina1979.substack.com/p/all-parts-welcome-a-map-to-our-inner

👉 For those interested in taking a break and doing meaningful work, you can join me at the Smoky Mountains retreat October 29 - November 3.

https://adrianmolina1979.substack.com/p/the-great-smoky-mountains-with-adrian

09/15/2025

We are shaped by more than a single identity. Each layer of who we are influences the doors that open and the challenges we face. Intersectionality, a concept developed by legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw in the late 1980s, is the idea that people can face discrimination based on multiple identities at once. Crenshaw’s framework was revolutionary because it showed how overlapping identities like race, gender, class, and sexuality create different lived experiences that can’t be understood by looking at each identity in isolation. This understanding is crucial for creating fair policies and truly inclusive communities. Our complexity is our strength.

👉 To learn more about this topic, you can read my essay “All Parts Welcome.”

https://adrianmolina1979.substack.com/p/all-parts-welcome-a-map-to-our-inner

👉 For those interested in taking a break and doing meaningful work, you can join me at the Smoky Mountains retreat October 29 - November 3.

https://adrianmolina1979.substack.com/p/the-great-smoky-mountains-with-adrian

09/13/2025

I wrote my latest essay "The Cost of Caring" after feeling sad for a week filled with reminders of the wounds we carry as a society. Remembering tragic events, shootings, and policies that seemed to go against any resemblance of humanity. And yet, there is an opportunity to reconsider how we want to see the world and define our role in it.

Why Choosing to Care Still Matters, Even When It Hurts

09/06/2025

Existential fatiguing is the tiredness that comes from constantly having to construct, reconstruct and deconstruct who you are in a world that seems fragmented, unstable and spinning out of control.

It's not depression, though they are polite to each other. It's not only anxiety, though they know each other's dirty laundry. It's the exhaustion of being aware, of caring, of trying to find your place when the ground keeps shifting beneath your feet.

Maybe you've felt this too.

The weight of consciousness itself in times that feel unprecedented. If so, you're not alone in carrying this particular heaviness.

Learn more about this topic in my latest essay.

The quiet resilience of showing up, tired but still human