perfect.

My life, a series of perfect steps...

M  I s c a        l c u   LaTe                         d.

Refabricated into tangled balls

Tossed.

Kicked.

Thrown.

From  your hands

to theirs.

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through 

breath.

I n h a l e .

E x .

stay.

If I told you you could stay here, would you?

 Your face says something else.

Is it fear that grips at your heart,

As it beats faster and faster?

You’re a good mirror, you onto me,

One that I picked up, by chance,

This one sunny day.

The moments I seldom wrote,

Because you, you had me afloat.

On your waves, and in your curls,

An energy leaving me hungry,

I continued to want more. You were my drug,

Just one hit more, a mere sentence recited  ‘amore.

And just like drugs, our spark shone

Off, perhaps the fear of that one final draw.

One thing I’ve learned from you, my mirror,

Is we’ve all this secret,

A thing we keep so near. But given time,

 It’s bound to show up.

There is no secret, is the biggest secret of all.

Only a language, your tongue exchanges with mine.

Would you stay here, yourself, your soul

And speak the language into the mirror,

The one I picked up so long ago?

this small world.

Here is an article I just published for Kuli Kuli https://www.kulikulifoods.com/, a company committed to the super food Moringa Oleifera. And frankly, some good tips and words that we all should take to heart! Have a look, take a bite :)

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The goal of this life for all of us should be to shorten the bridge, the gap, of cultural understanding, nutrition, and healing throughout the world, and in our own bodies. We are all in this together. The more we know, the more power we have to spread the word with our voice. Mother nature was smart in that regard, she set us up perfectly in the confines of this world to have exactly what we need, t h a t 

i s , if we are quiet enough to listen, and smart enough to look.

We’ve heard it before “food is medicine,” “you are what you eat,” “garbage in is garbage out,” no? These are not just cheeky tag lines. They’re truths. How do I know? Because I’ve tried, listened, observed, and learned. Trial and error. My own diseases. Dis-ease is what happens when we go against what our bodies are telling us, in a body-mind-soul-food, kinda way.  So frankly, by ignoring all signs the body is sending us. 

Dis-ease is a cry for help, a wake up call that you were too out of tune to hear before. It’s the same concept when your body sends you hunger signals. That sensation for nourishment that is so intense it wipes clean the slate of anything else you had on your radar, leaving you solely focused on where your next food source will come from. At this point, believe it or not, it’s already too late. You’re body really, really needs to be fed now. This is the language that our body uses to talk with us; signs through pain and disease. Diseases if we weren’t wise enough to listen sooner, or weren’t sure how to, and pain as a surefire way to raise some red flags.

As you’re beginning to see, most of us don’t understand our foundation, our body. Nor do we “speak” the language it uses to draw or demand attention to itself. Would you believe me if I told you that you actually have the power to give your body exactly what it needs and it’s as simple as a CHOICE? All of the answers are available out there, but we need to start taking owness, responsibility for our own bodies, our own selves.

Today’s intricate and complexly knotted up version of health has so many different pieces that we cannot be expected to make sense of it by diving in with goggles on and sifter in hand. No sir. It’s a whole lot dirtier than this.  

So what we will do here in this series, is begin to peel back the onion, and work together to bridge the nutritional gap of this world and by simplifying what it means to be in this body, your body, so you can finally understand this vehicle that you have taken up residency in. Frankly, too much time has passed in the latter.

Happy exploring!

fail.

And then she said “but that’s what you’re good at; failing. You’ve been doing it your whole life. That’s the story that we all want to hear. The story about how you failed and then how you made it. We want to know that someone else out there has fallen, and fallen down hard, but they’re ok. They’ve made it. Maybe that’s just what your goal here is; you’ve been doing it all along but you’ve shoved it into your closet after writing about it.”

Liberation. 

I finally felt free. This whole time I thought I was too scared to follow through with dreams, my big, scary, ‘can’t fail at this’ dreams, but frankly, it looks like the very thing I was scared of doing-failing-is just what I have been doing all along. Hearing this freed my s o u l. It made me realize that hey, nothing is that serious, and that even the worst, scariest parts of falling down, I’ve picked myself up, dirty and wounded, but stronger, and jumped right back into life.

My perspective has forever been changed. My soul feels free, light. The responsibility of looming failure that has scared the shit out of me my entire life, well, that just doesn’t seem so scary anymore.

Go fail.

We all do.

And we all can get, back, up to do it all over again.

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stretch to let go.

While getting a massage the other day, I ended up having an interesting conversation with John, the masseuse. He told me that ‘even though I’m a bit of a type A personality, I don’t have an issue letting things go.’

That sparked a huge light bulb in my mind. We can learn a lot from our muscles as to how we relate to the world. What do I mean by that?

There are people that go with the flow, and then there are people that resist and fight everything, there are people that are overcome by stress and anxiety in the wake of any and all situations. Yes, there are many more in between, but let’s focus on these three.

Put person type one through a deep relaxation massage. During this massage, they are going to let their bodies go, becoming vulnerable to the masseuse, allowing them to prod, turn, bend, and flex their limbs into wherever position the masseuse leads. This person will experience relaxation, muscle release and an even deeper form of release called myofascial release. In their day-to-day life, they’ll move through moments and situations with ease, allowing things to roll over them like ocean waves, taking each thing as its comes, with an flexible mind and open heart. Grudges have no place in the lives of this type of person. The glass will always be seen as half full, stress and anxiety as foreigners.

Take person two and put them through the same type of massage. The dead give away to this person will be their resistance to becoming malleable to the hands of the masseuse, fighting their gentle guidance in this direction and that. In the mind of this individual, there is difficulty separating the entities of their body. Cognitively, they understand the concept of letting go, but exercising it is a completely different story. In life, this person will have difficulty letting things go, as most things will hit an emotional switch, taking most things personally. They don’t hold grudges perse, but they definitely don’t forget the ‘stuff’ that happens in their lives. Depending on their moods, they can see the glass half full, the glass half empty, and some days, it’s just a glass with some water in it. Anxiety and worry are two of their minds most comfortable states to reside in.

Entonces (my favorite Spanish word-then), the sheer thought of a massage will send person numero tres running to the hills. They don’t have time to sit, and even if they did, would that want to sit in the wake of their own body, their own thoughts?  But let’s just say we get them in. There will be resistance, discomfort, pain, and emotion coming forth throughout their massage. Ironically though, they will give a little, release a bit, ever so slowly into the guidance of the masseuse. This will be sporadic.  In life, ‘How are you’ signals the opening of the floodgates to this type of person’s dirty laundry, unloading all of the moments of their whole lives, the last five days, or last ten seconds onto their friends and family. The victim of life, is their theme song and their power and control is spread ever so conveniently to everything and everyone else in their world.

This is solely my interpretation of how our muscles can speak to us. Engaging in this muscular conversation with your body can be a beautiful aid to understanding how your body lives this life.

So I challenge you to give a little, to be brave enough to let go. Become vulnerable. It takes great strength to become vulnerable. Take a risk and become malleable, bendable. Allow life to roll over you like ocean waves, matching the energy in the wake of each gliding current.

Enjoy.

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