Simply asking for help with the people you care for so you can take a couple of hours to catch your breath and come back home to yourself is enough to make a big difference.

Who am I when I can’t do what I do? Who am I when even life-sustaining connection with others is taken away?

you are present to the reality of your own essence, aware of life force energy as it moves, perceives, and communicates through the instrument of your body.

But when you are present to your own beauty in the now, in the presence of another human being, you truly love them because you can’t help but see the same beauty in them.

Embodiment, as described by psychologist and bestselling author Peter Levine, PhD, in his seminal work In An Unspoken Voice, “is about gaining, through the vehicle of awareness, the capacity to feel the ambient physical sensations of unfettered energy and aliveness as they pulse through our bodies.

Suddenly, I become aware of my heart. I sensed that it wanted a release. The intensity in my body was too much to sustain. It was time to let go.

in front of my mind’s eyes, my life. Not the one I was living but the one I came here to live. It was as clear as day. I could see all the people I loved and who loved me. I saw myself writing and teaching. I saw my future partner, my future family. But more importantly, I felt the love I saw in the vision. I felt unconditional love, a love that in

If attention from your caregivers came from a place of lack of love inside them, love registered in you as co-dependent. If attention from your caregivers came from their need for love, love registered in you as insecure and you begin a never-ending search for it.

Embodied empathy doesn’t allow you to betray yourself and give more than you have.