How many times do we take a step forward, get scared, and try to shimmy our way right back into what we know?

Because it’s familiar. Because we know what to expect. Because even when something doesn’t feel right anymore, at least we know how to live there.

I’ve done this.

And I’ve been thinking about how we can be so busy holding on to what was that we miss what’s right in front of us.

Our kids growing up. Chapters changing. Parts of life that we love so much, and we’re just not ready for them to look different.

I don’t think we have to look back and decide those chapters were bad. We don’t have to throw everything away or pretend it didn’t matter.

We can be grateful for what got us here. We can carry the pieces that matter. And we can let things change.

In this episode of Watch Sunsets with Me, I’m exploring what it means to bring awareness back to our thoughts, reconnect them with the body and heart, and create a little more space to choose how we want to meet our day.

Because being present doesn’t mean pretending everything is good. There is room for grief, heaviness, doubt, pain, and the messy parts of being human.

There is also room for play.

For color.

For connection.

For creativity.

For aliveness.

This is an invitation to slow down enough to notice where you are, take a breath, and ask:

How do I want to meet this moment?

Not perfectly. Not all day long.

Just one moment at a time.

In this episode of Watch Sunsets with Me, I talk all about how sometimes we can get so caught up in, “I need to be more healed,” or “I’m too broken to do this,” or “When things settle down, then I will.”

And a question I’ve been coming back to is:

What are you devoted to?

What are you devoting your time and your energy to?

Because we’re devoted to things all the time.

It’s just… are the things you’re devoted to actually serving you?

What have I been devoted to?

And is that devotion what I want to keep devoting my life to?

Maybe that’s something you can sit with as you listen to this episode.

At the end of the episode, I share a short little breathwork session where we ask:

What have I been devoted to?

What do I want to be devoted to?

What do I want to step into?

What do I want to release?

And we let the breath be this little moment of remembrance.

Of, oh my goodness…

I’m here.

I’m alive.