This week I experienced a meaningful breakthrough during a day out with friends. A friend of mine became upset about the choice of venue and directed her frustration towards me. Initially, I could feel myself being affected by her comments and I noticed old feelings beginning to arise. Rather than reacting or becoming caught up in the situation, I consciously stepped back internally and recalibrated. I took a moment to reconnect with myself, observe what was happening, and remind myself not to take on what wasn't mine to carry. Once I had centred myself again, I was able to rejoin the conversation feeling calm and unaffected. There was no need to defend myself, argue, or withdraw. I simply returned to the group and enjoyed the rest of the day. This felt like a genuine breakthrough for me. It showed me that while I may still be triggered at times, I now have the awareness and tools to recognise it, pause, and choose a different response. Instead of being swept away by someone else's emotions, I was able to return to my own inner balance and peace. Peace wasn't something I found after the situation changed. Peace came when I changed my response to the situation.

Hello family 💛 Happy Monday. Hope you are stepping into the week feeling refreshed and ready. One word to describe the energy you are bringing into this week. I'll go first. Focused. Your turn 👇

Two hours from now, I was meant to guide our Somatic Healing session. Instead, I am writing this. And perhaps this is the most honest introduction I could offer. The work I facilitate is often described as helping more of life come online within us. More aliveness.More feeling.More truth.More capacity.More access to ourselves. But there is another side to that conversation that interests me just as much. What happens when we become sensitive enough to notice when something is not online? Today, after several days of deeply holding space for others, I noticed something simple: My body was not asking me to prepare.It was not asking me to push through.It was not asking me to perform. It was asking for rest. Many of us have been trained to interpret that moment as an obstacle to overcome. A test of discipline. A sign that we should try harder. But in my experience, some of the deepest healing begins when we stop treating our own inner signals as interruptions. When we stop negotiating with what is true. So today I am choosing not to override that signal. Not because I don’t care about this gathering. Precisely because I do. The quality I value most in this work is presence. And presence cannot be manufactured. It can only be met. One of the great paradoxes of life is that we often imagine freedom will arrive through greater control. Yet many of the most meaningful changes in my own life have emerged through listening rather than forcing, through trust rather than management, through cooperation with life rather than negotiation against it. This is not always comfortable. But it is often intelligent. So rather than meeting you tonight from a place of depletion, I would rather meet you soon from a place of genuine availability. In the meantime, I would love to leave you with a simple question: What are you currently overriding that life keeps gently asking you to notice? Not fix. Not optimize. Not improve.

Hello family 💛 I wanted to take a moment to introduce someone very special who has just joined the Soul Rich Society family. Please give a warm welcome to @Joanna Bondarowska all the way from Poland. 🇵🇱 @Joanna Bondarowska is the practitioner who will be hosting our somatic healing session this Sunday the 7th of June. She does truly amazing work and I am really excited to have her here with us. Between now and Sunday I will let @Joanna Bondarowska tell you a little more about herself and what she does in her own words. So keep an eye out for that. In the meantime if you have not already headed to the somatic healing post and commented ATTENDING please do so now. Comment ATTENDING here >>> https://www.skool.com/soul-rich-society-7286/somatic-healing-session-update?p=59835d4b I will be confirming on Wednesday whether we are going ahead this Sunday or whether we need to reschedule. So the sooner you drop your confirmation the better. Welcome to the family Joanna 💛 🙏

Hello family 💛 Following on from the somatic healing post I shared recently the response has been really encouraging and I appreciate every single one of you who dropped your interest. I have been speaking with the practitioner and we are planning to arrange the initial session for Sunday the 7th of June at 2PM EST. I have noticed that more of you tend to attend sessions over the weekend so wanted to pick a day and date that works for the majority. This is going to be a hands on experiential session. Not a talk. Not a lecture. You will be actively guided through the process in real time working with your own body. If Sunday the 7th of June works for you comment ATTENDING below. If enough of you confirm I will go ahead and get this locked in and confirmed. Let's make this happen 💛 👇