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Raw & Real Health Collective, Moran, WY (2026)

10/15/2026

A different type of high 🫧

There’s a point in a hard climb when your mind finally gets quiet

The overthinking, the unanswered questions, the things you’ve been carrying

All become a little less loud.
Your attention comes back to your breath, your feet, and the ground beneath you.

And somehow, in the middle of something so demanding, there’s peace 😌

Michael Easter writes “We’re all capable of more than we think, but we only learn that through exploring the edge”

I think that’s part of why we choose hard things

To experience that moment of “how am I going to do this?”

and slowly discover the answer through doing it.

Taking a break.
Finding your footing.
Choosing the next step.

There’s something deeply grounding about watching yourself move through something you weren’t sure you could handle

That experience comes home with you

You remember it the next time life feels uncertain, overwhelming or bigger than you

I don’t need to know how I’ll make it through every part to trust that I can find my way 🤍

10/13/2026

You can feel mentally calm…

while your body is fighting to keep up 🧠

When we talk about stress, most people immediately think of anxiety, work deadlines, emotional overwhelm, major life events etc.

But your body has a much broader definition of stress

Your nervous system and HPA axis are constantly receiving information about your internal and external environment

assessing demands and coordinating how your body responds

And those demands aren’t always emotional:

🩸 Blood sugar fluctuations and inadequate nourishment
🌙 Disrupted sleep and circadian rhythms
🦠 Gut infections and inflammatory signals
🌿 Environmental exposures
🏋🏼‍♀️ Overtraining
🧠 Perceived stress

where it gets interesting is stress isn’t just about WHAT is happening. It’s also about how your brain perceives what’s happening.

That unanswered email, the laundry piling up, or the never-ending to-do list might seem insignificant, even achievable

but when your brain perceives those demands as exceeding your available resources, they can contribute to your stress response

Over time, repeated or prolonged stressors can influence cortisol regulation, digestion, immune signaling, reproductive function, energy and more

This is why we look beyond symptoms and explore the HIDDEN stressors that may be contributing to your body’s overall stress load

Because usuallyyyyy the answer isn’t another meditation, supplement, or morning routine

It’s understanding what your body has been working so hard to adapt to in the first place 💭

10/09/2026

Things beyond the traditional “self care”

You cannot build a life you love while constantly being at war with yourself

Shame, guilt, anger, grief, disappointment

these emotions are not things we need to exile.
They’re things we need to notice, feel, and get curious about.

The problem is when we get stuck there.

I call that the shadow lands
when an emotion stops being something you’re moving through and becomes the lens you’re living through

And usuallyyyyy,it starts with how we talk to ourselves about ourselves

The little comments about our bodies, our progress, our choices.

Whose expectations are we trying to live up to?
Who are we trying to impress?
What are we hoping their approval will give us?

When does a standard we thought would motivate us become a dark place of self-doubt, criticism, and constant comparison?

When does wanting to grow become feeling like nothing we do is ever enough?

So get curious: why am I feeling this? what is underneath it? Is this something I actually want, or something I’ve learned I should want/care about? what’s the internal dialogue here?

These emotions can be doorways into deeper self-awareness.

Moving forward might mean making a change, asking for support, letting yourself grieve, or softening an expectation that’s been hurting you

Be kind to yourself. Take care of yourself. Learn yourself.

Because it’s really hard to be a kind person, create healthy relationships, build the life you want, or even just have a good day when the person you spend every second with is constantly tearing you down

10/07/2026

The path is so clear, until it isn’t

You’ve been walking it for a while, everything feels aligned and easy

Then suddenly there are fallen trees everywhere and you’re like am I even on the trail anymore? This was literally so clear before

And I think life does that too.

You hit a blockage and immediately start questioning everything.

Was I wrong? Did I waste my time? Did I make the wrong decision? Was all that effort for nothing?

No.

Sometimes you just can’t keep going the exact same way you were going.

And you can absolutely try.

You can climb over the trees, crawl under them, pull out a saw and start hacking away because you’re so committed to proving that THIS is the path

But at some point you have to zoom out and look around.

Maybe you backtrack a little.
Maybe you take the trail next to it.
Maybe you completely change the route.

That doesn’t mean everything you did before was wasted

It means you’re adjusting 🌀

Think about it, we do this all the time when we travel.

A flight gets delayed, canceled, rerouted, you get stuck with a layover you didn’t want… and yeah, your annoyed but you’re still going on the trip.

You don’t throw the whole vacation away because the route changed

Same thing with your life.

Change the plan.
Change the timeline.
Change the voice that says “this is the only way”.

Pulling yourself back & recognizing that trying to break through this wall is probably more effort, more time, and more resources

There wasn’t a sign that said turn around and give up,

Just a block guiding you to find another way 🧭

10/05/2026

The world is beautiful.
Life is actually really wonderful.
God/ the universe loves you.
There is still so much good here.

Be grateful for all of it, in the end life is so short & so simple.

That is all 🤍

09/28/2026

In the past 30 days:

I’ve driven from Connecticut to California and back across to Texas

I’ve eaten fast food.
I haven’t stepped foot in a gym.
I’ve eaten at completely random times thanks to time zones.
I’ve spent 9–12 hours sitting in the car some days.

AND I’ve still had:
- regular BMs
- gotten 10k+ steps most days
- made time for breathwork + meditation
- chosen balanced, whole-food meals whenever I could

Not because every day has been perfect. Because these things are priorities for me.

A lot of yall can’t even go away for a WEEKEND with out being constipated, unable to sleep, and uncontrollable eating habits

Most of us know what tomorrow looks like: wake up, work, come home, eat, repeat.

So instead of waiting for the perfect schedule, more motivation, or life to calm down…

where can you intentionally build health into the life you already have?

Your routine doesn’t have to be perfect.

But your priorities should show up somewhere 🤍

& if your “excuse” is oh but I’m sOoOoO busy

You will never be sustainable.

because when you can finally (if ever) actually breathe, you will go right back to choosing comfort & familiarly

Saying “I deserve this” as an award, as if you didn’t just chose the same habit when life was stressful

Nothing is ever perfect. But you can always be better 🫧

09/27/2026

California Dreaming

Yosemite • Sequoia & Kings Canyon • Joshua Tree • Mojave Desert

My thoughts:
- we are legit ants on a floating rock
- If trees can resist and grow back from multiple fires than so can you
- You can only grow in the right environment
- Scars are what make you beautiful
- If you grow to big for your britches you will fall and break
- Only you can prevent wild fires
- There’s always finna be something that goes wrong
- Crack heads don’t stop at anything so why should you (rip my bike)
- In the desert what looks super close is actually far away
- The desert low key used to be the ocean
- I like grass
- Dads at a local brewery are my favorite character
- I’m so fing lucky and blessed this is MY life

Questions: why is there no grass? Did this used to be an ocean? How do yall survive w no water? Why are there so many ants? Scorpions are nocturnal?! Why doesn’t ever city have a light pollution clause? Are yellow spotted lizards real?

I hope aunt Linda still sees all these adventures 🤍

09/25/2026

Today while hiking I kept noticing couples around me

Some were so genuinely happy to be there together

You could hear it in their conversations, see it in their energy

And then there were others where you could feel the disconnect

one person completely lit up by being outside, while the other seemed miserable

it made me think about how much we can give up in relationships, romantic or otherwise, in the name of “compromise”

There’s obviously beauty in meeting people halfway.

But at what point does compromise stop being collaboration and start becoming self-abandonment?

I had a similar conversation with a client recently around FOMO

always pouring into everyone else and constantly putting herself on the back burner.

At what point does supporting the people you love turn into abandoning yourself?

especially when that same care, effort and consideration isn’t being reciprocated?

I love being outside. I love hiking, exploring, being spontaneous, moving my body, challenging myself and seeing what’s around the next corner.

Those aren’t just hobbies to me. They’re pieces of who I am.

And I’ve realized how easy it is to slowly make yourself smaller when you deeply care about someone

to do less, explore less, dream smaller or quiet parts of yourself just to feel accepted, less like a burden or more aligned.

Compatibility isn’t needing to love every single thing the other person loves.

But I do think the people closest to us should expand our capacity to be ourselves, not require us to continually negotiate pieces of ourselves away.

Can we collaborate on a life where neither of us has to disappear?

And maybe that’s where the real discernment comes in

noticing where you’ve started compromising your actual life, making yourself, your goals and your vision smaller, quieter, less adventurous, less expressive, or less YOU

just so you can fit inside someone else’s box or keep them comfortable 📦

09/24/2026

All I hear is lack.

Someone has actually said this to me before

And I laughed.

Because I actually beg to differ.

When I see someone living a life I want, my first thought is usually, if it exists for them, why couldn’t it exist for me too?

Maybe my path looks different.
Maybe my timeline is different.
Maybe I have to learn different skills, change different habits, heal different patterns or make different sacrifices.

But their life is proof that the possibility exists

And I use the opposite as information too.

When I see a life I absolutely do not want, I pay attention to the habits, beliefs, environments, relationships and day-to-day choices that created it

Not from judgment. From awareness.

Because your life is being built in the tiny things you repeat every. single. day.

The way you speak to yourself.
What you tolerate.
What you believe is possible.
What you do when nobody is watching.
What you keep choosing even when it is uncomfortable.

I refuse to look at someone else’s expansion and use it as proof of my own limitation, resistance, or lack of self.

If anything, I’m taking notes

& you BEST believe what I’m set on I will conquer

And you also have this power 👑⚡️

Sometimes the momentum starts with just asking “how did you get here?”

09/23/2026

You know who you are, my little desk shrimpers 🦐

Your body was NOT designed to sit like a little human shrimp hunched over a computer for 8+ hours a day

When we stay caved into the same position over and over we actually create trauma in our physical tissue

- some muscles stay shortened
- others basically clock out
- fascia gets less movement
- your body learns “this is just how we live now”

🫠

A few minutes of spinal movement throughout your workday can help get blood + fluid moving, support lymphatic flow, wake up those sleepy muscles and give your brain a literal recharge 🔋

And sometimes the solution to whatever you’ve been staring at for 45 minutes is not staring harder 😂

Stand up. Twist. Reach. Breathe.
Un-shrimp yourself 🍤

Your stretch break isn’t wasting time or a distraction

it’s supporting the body AND brain doing the work🧠✨

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