Anxious Minds and Irish Pubs....?
Anxiety, Capacity, and Making Space

Anxiety and the looping mind are real (loud) ways to spend our time, and the world isn’t making it quieter. This week, Hayley shares what came up at Saturday’s Tarot for Tips at Prairie Bazaar Vintage: lots of people wanting to talk about the gap between their busy minds and their bodies. Hayley layers in Maslow’s hierarchy (her favourite) as a way to check capacity (your spoons, your battery) and explains why meditation doesn’t have to mean blank-slate stillness. Sometimes it just means noticing the party next door and choosing whether to go.

Plus:
Energy Meets Energy Sound Bath (Nov 8),
Rage at the River (Nov 21),
Santa Slowdown (Dec 6).

Work with me!

Love to see you there!
- Hayley Kearney

Episode 17: Belonging to Self (Friendship Edition)

You know that moment when you’re sitting next to a stranger, you want to say hello, and your stomach does a little flip? This episode is about that flip.

Last week we talked about belonging to yourself. This week Hayley takes it out into the world. She shares stories about the friends she almost didn’t make, the seat she almost didn’t take, and the neighbour she kept running into until the universe made its point (three times in one week, in places neither of them expected). There’s also a friendship kept alive across two countries, with a matching-outfit streak that proves some people are just meant to find each other.

The thread running through it all is that when you know yourself, you can trust yourself. When you trust yourself, you can be a little brave, a little vulnerable and quietly curious about the people who keep showing up in your life. Cool things happen when you show up as your whole self.

Coming up with Ember ‘n Echo
🃏 Tarot for Tips: Saturday, October 31, 1–4pm, Prairie Bazaar Vintage, Centre Street, Calgary
🌙 Energy Meets Energy (Yin Yoga, Sound Bath & Reiki): November 8, 4pm, Mandorla Yoga, Marda Loop
🔥 Rage at the River: November 21: with My Luminous Life
🎅 Santa Slowdown (Restorative Yoga & Reiki): December 6, 4pm, Mandorla Yoga, Marda Loop

Find Hayley on Instagram or email her through the links in the description.

You can belong to a book club, a gym and a fantasy football chat, and still feel like you don’t belong anywhere.

In Episode 16, Hayley explores the art of belonging to yourself. In a world with no village church and no central meeting place, how do we find our people? She starts with the one place belonging begins: the inside.

What does it take to feel at home with yourself? Hayley looks at what being an outsider can teach us, how to use our 20's as the bumper barriers in our 30's & 40's, and why showing up as you are, even running on empty, can be enough. Plus: people-pleasing, hard goodbyes and the power of saying it out loud.

You’ll hear:

• Why belonging to yourself comes before belonging to a group
• How to (safely) show up without a mask
• The real cost of people-pleasing
• A gentle set of questions to ask yourself this week

Coming up in Calgary: Energy Meets Energy (Nov 8) and Santa Slowdown (Dec 6). Details and tickets: Here

🎧 Work with Hayley(counselling, Reiki and somatic stretch)