Natural Strength Coaching

Maybe I've Always Been In It

"Have you seen my phone?" I ask Mark (this is a regular question for me).

It's Christmas morning, about 11am, and I'm coming out of another one of those "wake up and get back to sleep" mid-life episodes.

"There it is!" I find it blending into the black table by the front door. I see all the green dots beside the unanswered text messages and my body responds by taking a deep breath. I put the phone down, face down (ironically, on our black couch to set me up for the next round of 'have you seen my phone?' adventures).

Interesting, my body wants to avoid the messages. My default programming has defined these Christmas greetings as time-sensitive responsibilities. I tense up. "I'm going to start brunch," I say, overwhelmed and surrendering to the avoidance.

I loved our family time. We enjoyed a simple and meaningful card and gift opening, leisurely brunch, and quiet puzzle-making time together before heading into prep for dinner with extended family. I finally faced the avoidance and actually enjoyed responding to texts on the way to dinner. We ate, we drank, we played, we talked, it was all wonderful....I did forget my phone at their house and we had to drive back to get it :) but overall everything still feels fine.

Our experiences of the holiday season haven't changed much but I clearly remember they used to leave me exhausted, wound up, irritable, and emotional. Yet today, I'm feeling so fine. What's happening? Hormones balancing with the supplements? Years of boundary work holding my energy together better? Chiropractor alignment getting me out of fight-flight? Years of detoxing from regular corporate hustle giving me back my peaceful baseline? Complete acceptance from community healing my self-worth? Maybe I've always been "in it," but now making friends with it? I believe it all plays a part and I'm SO grateful.

Thank you to you. You are my safe space holder here in this email world.

My holiday wish is that you make friends with all your parts and accept others into your lives who truly wish to love you exactly as you are.

It's all a practice, and you get to decide what you master. They say 10,000 hours makes you a master. How much better would your life be if you were masterfully loved and accepted, EXACTLY AS YOU ARE? We're at over 282 hours of community gathering healing since 2021 and over 1400 hours of community coworking. It may not be you holding yourself back, it may be your community.

Love and Let Go With Ho'oponopono. Feel out our safe space. Come for a simple and sacred journaling practice centred on this Hawaiian prayer to close of yourmonth. Just show up in a quiet and private space and we'll take care of the rest. 6pm MST tonight. Sign up here for $11: https://www.naturalstrengthhc.com/0c91ed08-e4a3-4f0a-91e5-8d02ecb40eee

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I'M COMING THROUGH THE MESSY IN-BETWEEN
I placed my beach bag on the sunlounger as I looked out to the ocean. Closing my eyes I took a deep breath. I felt a pang of sadness that showed up as heaviness in my heart space and a slight burning behind my eyes. I will miss my mornings walking with the ocean and sun. I will miss the pleasure of focusing only on what Spirit calls me to moment by moment. I will miss the safety and easy companionship of being with my friend of nearly 30 years.

Tears come to the surface. It also feels like joy. A smile makes its way out of me. Who am I to enjoy these blessings? I am overwhelmed. I feel like I've loved so fiercely for most of my life. I've worked so damn hard to achieve so many goals. I've felt so deeply. I've expressed so loudly. And now, as I sit and take this moment in, I feel the weariness and conclusion of a chapter of my journey. Am I here on this trip to process the enormity of this life phase? Feel the ambivalence of this state and come to peace with it?

I'm coming through the messy in-between.

Where are you at? Process with me tonight at our gathering, Clear for Flow. Get comfortable in a quiet private place and just show up exactly as you are. I'll meet you there 6pm MDT.

CLEAR FOR FLOW GATHERING Whatever you are going through, try on what it feels like to go through it together in a safe and supportive container. Speak, feel, understand, and clear the way. See you tonight at 6pm MDT. Sign up here - https://www.naturalstrengthhc.com/99856811-e0ba-4f7d-be28-686565f4b260

MADE TO DO THIS TOGETHER VIII, starts Jan 13, 2025. It's as if I can enjoy my downtime even more because I have a deep confidence that I will be in super-focus mode when we start up again in coworking. Am I meant to start writing my book? What about you? What are you meant to step into? Sign up at https://www.naturalstrengthhc.com/madetodothistogether

You are deeply affected by your environment
I am sitting at the back of my office taking a nourishing pause with slow deep breaths. My body relaxes into my supportive chair. I notice the view of trees to my left, right and in front of me. How did I not see the value of this view the last time I moved my desk here?!
Anyone else experience this? You're don't appreciate something until you're ready to appreciate it.
Every few months, I get taken over by a force inside me. My body gets a bit frantic as my everyday routine gradually builds in irritation. I move around the house, noticing all the little things I don't like and I get little bursts of inspiration for where to move furniture or put up a photo, or get rid of something I'm tired of looking at.
This is the moment where I know: I've outgrown my current space again.
It's an instinct within that pays respect to the deep wisdom: I know my surroundings are co-creating with my soul at every moment and my surroundings must be aligned with where I am going and who I am and want to be. Science backs this up. Especially those that have the Highly Sensitive Person Trait, KNOW THIS! You are deeply affected by your environment, for better and for worse. This is called differential susceptibility.
Why is this so important for you to know? Your momentum could have slowed simply because there is a misalignment in your environment, your people, or your things... Your body could be asking you to give yourself the energetic support in the form of changes around you, so that you can easily move to your next phase.
When in transition to a new phase (which feels like every few months), I get irritated by the things around me that don't align. That creates tension in my body and I burst into "move the furniture, do deep cleaning, paint a painting, purge belongings mode." I've come to learn, it's my body guiding me. Your differential susceptibility is a gift when you listen to its signals!
What is your body saying, or screaming at you? Try this fun exercise, set a timer of 10 minutes and clear out that front closet that's been slowly draining your energy every time you grab your coat, or move that desk to the spot that gets more light, or do that thing that gets rid of what has been driving you crazy. Notice your energy after. When you get alignment, you will notice a big boost of energy, well worth the 10 minutes you've invested!
Free Your F'ing Truth, Each week at our Thursday gatherings, we tune in and see what our bodies are saying. We practice speaking our truth. We get better at listening. Join me here at 6pm MDT tonight. It's free! Sign up now: https://www.naturalstrengthhc.com/29dd0500-419d-4ad1-8b51-e7d243b657b5
Made To Do This Together VIII, starts Jan 13, 2025. Each day of our Made to Do This Together coworking group, we bring back online our body wisdom. We get it. Disconnection is a coping mechanism for the overstimulation, overconsumption, and ridiculous pace society runs at. Together, we use create an environment that sets up space that makes it easy to get centered, tune into what's important, get aligned, and move forward in a concrete way. Find out more here: https://www.naturalstrengthhc.com/madetodothistogether
I'd love for you to join me tonight for Free Your F'ing Truth or Jan 13th when we start our next 30-day coworking journey. It just might give you the tools to have the success you've always wanted. And the best part is, it comes from deep within yourself.
Crystal

It Gets Worse Before It Gets Better
"Remember, it gets worse before it gets better," the Chiropractor said as I got up to leave. I had some new tension on the left side of my head and along my right forearm after a super quick and gentle adjustment of my C1. "Such a good reminder, thanks."

I experienced this when I started Low Light Laser Therapy as well. I was alarmed after my first session. "It feels like my anxiety is coming back!" I pleaded with my functional medicine doctor, debating on stopping after just 1 of 16 sessions. "It's like I can feel the blood moving faster and harder inside me. I don't want 3 years of meditation to unravel!" " Stick with it Crystal," he comforted, "your body is getting used to a different level of energy and this is just the adjustment."

PIC: View from partway up Two Pine

Do you relate?

It's like the storm before the calm.

❤️An argument uncovers new truths and makes way for a deeper love...

❤️A thunderstorm clears out old debris and allows for new growth...

❤️A letting go of old friendships to make way for a more aligned community...

I can't believe our Natural Strength Community has come together in sacred circle roughly 188 times since March of 2021! I'm in awe of how we've all gone through our cycles of feeling worse before feeling better. Having others witness and hold unconditionally loving space is truly the glue that keeps me together when I'm just about ready to give up. Join us on this continuously evolving journey.

Love and Let Go With Ho'oponopono
Tonight 6pm MDT

What will come through for you tonight as we meditate on this sacred prayer:

I'm Sorry, Please Forgive Me, Thank You, I Love You.

Drop in tonight for $11 at https://www.naturalstrengthhc.com/d4ceca94-4fb6-471c-9bf7-d37398a31e84

Made To Do This Together VIII, starts Jan 13, 2025. Sign up at https://www.naturalstrengthhc.com/madetodothistogether

Thankful for all of you, on this American Thanksgiving Day!

Crystal