by jbird | Aug 24, 2023 | Newsletter
My oldest returned to college over the weekend, and I feel like I am officially tip-toeing back into the post-summer routine. I have some exciting things on the horizon for you such as the return of the Freedom from Empty podcast and one or more 2024 retreats for...
by jbird | Jun 15, 2023 | Newsletter
There was a time I believed that when you put an intention out into the world, the setting of the intention would likely soon be followed by a “test” from the Universe . . . to see if you were serious and really committed to whatever it was you spoke into...
by jbird | Jun 1, 2023 | Newsletter
My mind was my most utilized tool, weapon and source of armor for more than three decades. In fact, there was a time I pretty much didn’t trust anyone or anything except for my mental acuity. Imagine my horror, and downright terror, when I began to struggle with...
by jbird | Apr 12, 2023 | Newsletter
Do you have a place where you feel safe to cry? Yes, men I am talking to you too. I am raising at 12 yo boy, and as far as I can tell, he has just as many tears as his sisters. When my mom died, I couldn’t cry. As in, I was physically unable to allow the grief to move...
by jbird | Mar 24, 2023 | Newsletter
It’s my “stay-versary”. In other words, the week, eight years ago, when two therapists in one day told me that my children would never recover if I took my own life. And so I said “F*&k, I guess that means I have to live.” If you...
by jbird | Mar 9, 2023 | Newsletter
In an earlier newsletter this year I shared that I spent most of December and January navigating a freeze trauma loop. For me, this freeze response felt like numbness, heaviness, emotional ambivalence, feeling stuck, frozen in place, or like slogging through mud each...
