Conscious Mindful Present

09/19/2024

How do you uncover, reclaim & reconnect to your calm & centered Self??

Why would you want or need to??

Because you can’t control the external experiences that are going to happen in your life - but you CAN control how you’re able to respond!!

I say this very specifically…

‘Nervous system regulation’ allows you to move through life with a deep sense of control in HOW YOU’RE ABLE TO respond to life…

It’s not ‘always’ easy…
Trust me, I GET THAT…

But the more you practice uncovering, reclaiming and reconnecting to that sensation of Your calm & centered Self, the more quickly & easefully that state of BEing can rise to the surface when you need it…

And the more awareness you have with what your body is trying to tell you when it’s about to feed off of chaos instead…

Your Soul came into this world equipped with everything your human needs to live in a state of BEing led by unconditional love, inner peace & and personal freedom!!

And then domestication happened.

But domestication didn’t take away this inherent wisdom of love, peace & freedom…

It only covered it up.

When you journey into something new by experiencing the power of your beautiful conscious connected breath, you WILL uncover, reclaim and reconnect with your calm & centered Self…

And your wisdom WILL come alive!!

Curious? Open? Feeling the nudge? Not sure where to start?

I remember those days very clearly!!
Start right where you are!!

Join me this weekend to experience your own magic rising to the surface!!

Friday night from 6:30-7:30pm at The Awakened Center in collaboration with Krista Pfohl as she brings the magic of live sound heading to our space!

Saturday night 6-8pm at Wishing Tree Studio in collaboration with Kelly Henning Scholz & Krista to bring yoga, sound healing and conscious breath together!

I promise you will leave feeling the impact of experiencing yourSelf differently!!

You are that powerful!!
☀️🐉🌙

📸 to show it’s possible to feel grief and connect with joy - I’ve been shedding a lot of tears lately - preparing to lose sweet Bowser and allowing more grief to flow - I took this selfie after a good cry and then feeling the bliss as I reconnected to the calm within through my own conscious breath practice…

06/27/2024

Tomorrow night, live, at The Awakened Center, experience yourSelf differently!!

Focus on Forgiveness & Self Love with the LIVE SOUND BATH MAGIC of Krista Pfohl as You use Your Conscious Breath to create space to Let Love Lead the Way in all You are!

What is it that needs forgiveness??

This is an act of Self-Love…a gift!

And this gift of Self-Love will bring you back home!!

We will start at 6:30pm CST! Registration below!

06/10/2024

Mystical Monday is here!
Love on yourSelf, Your people and the world with Your conscious breath!
Use the code BREATHE to practice for FREE!
7:30pmCST - register below!!

05/27/2024

Hello sweet Souls!!

In honor of Memorial Day, Made4More is offering buy one get one ☝️ FREE on all Made4More's TRIGGERED Conference Tickets!

I'm excited to be speaking at this conference as both a Keynote and in a VIP Workshop! Join me as we step through fear to Let Love Lead the Way!

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05/24/2024

Tonight, live, at The Awakened Center, experience yourSelf differently!!

Harnessing the energy of this Full Moon, you will be blessed with the LIVE SOUND BATH MAGIC of Krista Pfohl as You use Your Conscious Breath to let go of what’s no longer serving and supporting You!

What is it that you’d Love to let go of??

This is an act of Self-Love…a gift!

And this gift of Self-Love will bring you back home!!

Fridays at 6:30pm CST! Registration below!

02/05/2024

It happened slowly.

In fact, it took months.

Fear attaching itself to the grief of my little brother’s unexpected death.

The fear of not doing enough.

The fear of not getting it right.

The fear of being abandoned, rejected, laughed at.

The fear of being seen.

Fear.

Subtle and tricky.

Falsely protecting me while I grieve someone I loved that I hadn’t spoken to in 3 years.

Those dynamics alone are tricky.

This fear piled itself right on top of old unattended fears created from past experiences.

I’ve done SO much healing of these fears that I didn’t see it coming.

I didn’t feel it happening.

Subtle and tricky.

I got heavy.

Energetically.
Physically.

I knew something wasn’t right.

I felt really disconnected from mySelf.

I really felt ‘clunky’…good word right?!

But I kept going.

I did some things.

I found breathwork.

I journeyed with my own breath. My life force.

Asking for guidance going into a journey, I saw something…

And then I was ushered to the ocean, where I saw something else…

And then I found mySelf on a pilgrimage, where I asked to release all that is holding me back from living my heart’s desire…

And then one day, it all connected.

The heaviness…

It’s the fear.

It had settled in to my body, right on top of the grief I was processing.

And I realized that that box, the compartmentalized one called ‘fear’, is very VERY deep in my being.

Now what??

Awareness is the place to start. Acknowledge. Listen.
Honor. Forgive.
Allow. Trust.
Take action.

With a grateful heart for everything exactly as it is, I thanked the fear for thinking it was protecting me as it always had in the past.

And then I let it go.

Gently.

By leaving the box open, I can take action.

Each day I’m waking up transmuting that fear into love.

EACH and EVERY DAY.

It’s not perfect but it is aligned to my truth.

This is connecting a dot.
This is having Conscious thought.
This is taking Mindful action.
This is being in the Present moment.

This is the practice.

To move through the fear and let love lead the way!

To return to the divine essence of unconditional love. Love through it all.

We are all that powerful!!
☀️🐉🌙

PS…we don’t do this alone. We aren’t meant to. I hold this close. Thank you to my people, my tribe, for seeing me through with patience, grace, tenacity and love…every cell in my being & my Soul sees, honors & loves every cell in your being & Soul.

01/16/2024

Good morning sweet Souls!!

Pondering just how important is in our world…

Individually and as a Collective.

On the heels of re-listening to the profound speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. yesterday, I’m realizing almost everyone I’ve encountered in my lifetime was taught (by hearing words AND witnessing actions), encouraged, influenced, conditioned and often feared into some sort of silence…

So I’m curious…

What things were you taught NOT to talk about as a kid??

How’s that working for you as an adult??

Do you feel chained to the past because of this? Stuck on repeat in a bubble of silence?

When you go to say something really important to you, your Soul, your truth, for yourSelf or something you believe in deeply, do you feel like you’d rather throw up & run the other way.

Do you feel like this bubble of silence is a safer place?

How many times have you worked up the courage only to look right at the person and say something completely different?

Or started and been shut down and then you walk away, giving up because ‘they won’t hear you anyway…’

I get it.

I didn’t even realize that I’d been taught to hide behind the silence until I was about 52.5…

I felt most shut down by the person I loved the most…

Not his fault…
And certainly not mine.

It was a dynamic we created doing what I now call ‘the ego’s dance of false protection’…

This is when the ego needs to feel safe so it aligns to a sensation in the body that is recognized from past conditioning and creates an immediate trigger to the brain that what you’re about to do is going to be bad, very very bad and you’d better run.

And the other person feels a sense of relief because the silence is better than the (assumed) scary words that they may have had to hear and respond to…

The egos are dancing.

The temporary relief you feel inside of the silence is just that…temporary.

This isn’t safety. Not for your Soul. Not for your growth and evolution in this lifetime.

And this is what can tear relationships apart.

The one we have with our own Selves and the ones we have with each other.

Are you tired of ignoring the little voice who’s trying to speak up?

Are you tired of walking away in silence?

You’re not meant to live like your ancestors did to stay safe.

You’re not meant to live in the shadow of what you were taught or witnessed safety to be as a child.

Do you feel the pull?

Is the time to break free of the ego’s dance of false protection and reclaim your voice, speak your truth & stand in your power?

It’s not selfish nor does it have to be scary, confrontational or bitchy sounding…and it certainly doesn’t have to be weak or timid.

You can come from deep love for yourSelf and the other person and the situation as a whole, knowing what you’re about to say matters to you.

You were born to stand in Your power!!

One moment, one conversation at a time.

You REALLY are that powerful!!
☀️🐉🌙

Morning Musings because today I want you to know I see you, I hear you, I love you and I value what you want to say…I’m here to help you break free, reclaim your voice and consciously communicate from love.

11/22/2023

Good morning sweet Souls!!

A reflection on Practicing Awareness (this weeks theme as we Breathe Our Way to the Present Moment…)

One year ago today I was making my way to the store, after the sunrise, for last minute Thanksgiving dinner supplies and out of nowhere, I felt this ache in my heart…

It was the same deep heart ache I felt when my mom died…

At that time, that deep heart ache wasn’t just about missing her physical presence, it was my heart, my body & my Soul working together to say ‘Jo this is Your time to unravel the old conditioning and heal from a life time of living in survival, as a people pleaser…we’ve got you and so does your mom.’

She literally took a piece of me with her so that I could FEEL this message…

And do something with it!

My journey since recognizing that first connection between the experience I was having and what my heart, body & Soul were telling me has led me to many deep knowings…

And it’s been grounded in this awareness…

That the sensations in the body, a diagnosis, compounding physical challenges…

Are ALL a sign to listen…

That something deep within wants to be seen…

Heard…
Loved…
Valued…
Shifted…

And perhaps that something is coming…

One year ago today, I stopped in that moment, held my heart center and said ‘ohhh hi I feel you, what is it, what are you, who are you, I’ve got you, I’m listening…’

And later that day I was playing with my morning pictures and popped the Fred Rogers quote below onto a picture I’d taken of a man also enjoying the sunrise…

These moments were physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually preparing me for what was to come just 9 days later…

The tragic death of my brother, whom I hadn’t spoken to for 3 years.

Practicing Awareness is a gift you give yourSelf so that you’re able to navigate in each present moment…

Without regret…
Without guilt…
Without shame…
Without fear…

Letting Love Lead the Way!!

Unconditional Love…

It’s been a long year unraveling deep grief through layers I didn’t even know were there waiting to be healed…

I’m listening and following the path laid before me with the deepest trust I’ve ever felt…a knowing that the unknown ahead is where I’m going!!

Standing in my power so that anyone who crosses my path knows they can too!

This is our oneness!!
We are that powerful!!
☀️🐉🌙

If you ever find yourSelf in a space where you want someone to sit with you in these moments, I’m here 🙏🏼

04/26/2023

Good morning sweet souls!!

The beautiful thing about change is that, by nature, it stays open to change!!!

So then, conceptually, that means that if I’m able to embrace the idea that things, people, situations, life…CAN change, I’ll be open to the change itself, right???

Maybe??

In the least, it can be a possibility…

And that’s exactly where you can start!

With the possibility…

The possibility that something or someone can be different…

I often tell my clients, and I’m sure that often means almost every time we get together, that ‘history doesn’t have to repeat itself’…

And when I say this, I’m really talking about the behaviors of someone else showing back up in new ways, contexts, situations, etc…

If you’re able to embrace the possibility of change, you will naturally drop the expectations of things being the same…

And there’s a beautiful sense of freedom waiting on the other side of dropping expectations!!

What expectations of a person or a situation are you holding onto that you could be willing to let go of today??

How does that feel?
It might feel weird at first…
That’s good though!

You want to feel something different than you’ve been feeling right?

Isn’t that why we do this work?

Stay open to the idea that change is a possibility and you will crack open that sense of personal freedom!

You are that powerful!!
☀️🐉🌙

04/20/2023

Good morning sweet souls!!

Being ‘thoughtful’ isn’t always about being ‘full of thought’…

When you’re feeling blank, empty or at a loss for words, what do you do with yourSelf?

Do you feel the need to fill the space? And if so, what is it that ends up coming to your mind?? Subconscious thoughts like…

‘I ‘should be’ thinking…’
‘I ‘should be’ feeling…’
‘Why can’t I…’
‘Why am I not…’
‘What’s wrong with me…’

OR

Do you sit with the silence and wait, listen, allow & accept this moment as a gift…

A moment in time with Your Conscious thought, your Soul, fully supported and divinely guided where your spirit team, God, the Universe, Source is saying…

‘I’ve got you…’
‘I’m here…’
‘We can do this together…’
‘Here’s what I want you to know right …’

Being ‘thoughtful’ isn’t always about being ‘full of thought’…

It’s about allowing the present moment the space of silence to fill you up with what you need…

Not what old stories replay…
Not where old beliefs take you…
Not what others expect of you…
Not the way your judge wants you to feel…
Not the role your victim falls prey to…

In those moments, you have a choice…

You can shut down the old thoughts with love, move through the fear of sitting with the silence and feel the peace awaken in your body!!

You are that powerful!!
☀️🐉🌙

04/14/2023

Hello sweet souls!!

It’s Personal Freedom Friday!!

I woke up feeling grateful for the path that’s led me to my own personal freedom with this deep love pouring out of me…

And feeling the ocean in my heart…

The ocean inspires my creativity…

The depth of my love mirrors the vastness of the ocean…

Each offering endless possibilities…

As you follow the path of your journey, hold each experience in love & a new level of personal freedom will meet you with every new step you take!

You are that powerful!!

☀️🐉🌙