👎 Why I’m Not Really Here for “Wellness”
I'm not really here for wellness. I'm here for aliveness.
I see a lot of wellness practices being used to manage burnout—just enough to keep from tipping over, but not enough to truly shift how we live and experience the world.
Yes, "wellness" can be resourcing, a great ingredient in the mix. But, if every time a difficult emotion comes up and the instinct is to escape or regulate it away, that's not wellness. That's avoidance.
When we do that, we're missing something essential.
We limit what it means to be fully alive.
We cut ourselves off from the full range of our nervous system. And in that range? Yeah, there's sadness and anger. But also deep healing, a strong immune system, and the ability to connect—really connect—with ourselves, others, and the world around us.
Our nervous system isn't just built for calm.
Aliveness is constantly trying to flow through us.
Fear may want to transform into excitement, or maybe grief.
Grief into expansion, joy and love.
Anger into safety.
Anxiousness into presence.
Our job is to learn how to support this flow of aliveness.
When we chase feeling well at all costs, we miss out on the deeper, richer experience of being human. Aliveness means finding depth and presence in it all. It's that connection to exactly what you're experiencing RIGHT NOW through your bodily vessel (aka soma).
Aliveness isn't about perfection, balance, or 'doing it right.' It's about the *full-body yes,* the “*holy sh**t, I'm here” moments. It's found through the body, on the good days and the inevitable hard ones. Have you ever looked at a bird flying and tripped out? Me too… THAT'S what I'm talking about!
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