Month: September 2025

Is it even possible?!

My RECIPE for Happiness

In this POST, I gave you my Recipe for Happiness.

Today’s Post tackles Ingredients #3 to 7, and Adds a Dash of…WORDLESSNESS?

3 🧘🏻‍♀️ Immerse yourself in your physical senses.

4 🌹 Feel your feelings.

5 💨 Breathe through all of them.

6 🌻 Pay attention to your thoughts,

7 🧘🏻‍♀️ mindfully without judgment 🤗.

This Recipe allowed me to realize that part of my Creative Routine was not working.

You see, it’s my Goal to practice piano every day.

Does it happen?

Nope!

Well, sort of.

Every night, I do go through all 88 notes on the Treble & Bass Clefs because it’s part of my nighttime routine. It helps me to go to bed when I picture the notes in my head as I’m drifting off to sleep.

Now, since that’s a fully-entrained habit, I’ve decided to focus on sitting at the piano and actually practicing every day.

But, as any piano enthusiast will tell you, there’s a BIG difference between playing for fun at the piano; and practicing deliberately, to learn new pieces, troubleshoot problem spots, and gain a practical grasp of music theory.

My goal is (1) Deliberate Practice, followed by some fun (2) Playing.

My Recipe helped me to see myself clearly — mindfully & without judgment.

In the past few weeks, I’ve noticed that Deliberate Practice requires me to SLOW down to focus and do what feels like tedious work.

Ironically, after a long day, this makes my verbally-minded Writer Mind SPEED UP.

All of a sudden, my mind will not stop its chatter.

Then comes the dreaded…

PROBLEM: Labeling.

When my experience of (1) Deliberate Practice is “bad,” (2) Playing doesn’t happen. As in, I don’t sit down at the piano at all.

Notice I used the word “bad.”

My mind automatically used these words, too:

• “Hard”

• “Laborious”

• “Boring”

Or, my personal favorite,

• “Ugh!!!”

SOLUTION: Tweaking my Recipe…again

Whenever I have something that’s not working in my life, I try to take an experimental mindset, like I’m a Scientist, troubleshooting an N=1.

Or, if you’d rather I not mix metaphors:

I will tweak my Recipe, like I’m Marisa, a Michelin Chef. 👩🏻‍🍳

Having prepped my Ingredient #6 (Pay Attention to Your Thoughts)…

I realized that the thoughts I am thinking about Deliberate Practice, as opposed to the Deliberate Practice itself, are spoiling my recipe!

It’s bitter. It’s sour. What I’m anticipating is so bad I won’t even step into the kitchen.

Now, I move onto #7 (Mindfully Without Judgment):

I remind myself that this doesn’t mean I “suck” as a Chef.

It doesn’t mean that I am a “bad” Musician.

As any piano player will tell you, there’s a lot to learn, practice, and master before you can truly express yourself at the piano, to “become one with” the music.

Like any skill, it requires time, determination, and grit.

Plus, you have to entrain your brain and body to be physically and mentally capable of identifying the correct notes, and controlling your fingers to play the correct keys, at the right tempo, with proper expressiveness.

In other words, it’s not easy.

Old Perfectionistic Marisa would have rushed to call myself “Bad.”

Recovering Perfectionist Marisa gives me an extra dollop (or, better yet, dumps the entire container) of #7: being Mindful — Without Judgment.

It doesn’t help me (or anyone around me, who has to hear my playing 😂) to label myself or the task of Deliberate Practice as “bad.”

If I label Myself “bad,” my playing will automatically be worse than if I used positive thinking or appropriate praise to motivate myself.

If I label Deliberate Practice “bad,” I just don’t sit at the piano at all.

The easiest way to improve? Go heavy on Ingredients #3, 4, & 5:

3 🧘🏻‍♀️ Immerse yourself in your physical senses.

4 🌹 Feel your feelings.

5 💨 Breathe through all of them.

After a long day, I realized that these 3 ingredients change exponentially, depending on the Words that my mind automatically uses to LABEL my experience.

And, interestingly, my mind has a tendency to PRE-LABEL my experience BEFORE I do it.

So, I started to experiment with how I might be able to damper my Wordy Writer’s Mind.

Using #3, I focused on the physical sensation of sound. I closed my eyes and listened more closely as I played.

Then, I focused on #4 & 5: I breathed through any discomfort I felt when I made mistakes; and, I felt the expansiveness of my breath when I allowed any positive emotions to grow as I entered a state of Flow.

When that still wasn’t enough, I realized how crucial Ingredient #3 (Immerse Yourself in Your Physical Senses) is for me.

At its max, it’s got to be so physical, it’s WORDLESSNESS.

Is that even possible, though — for a Writer’s Mind like mine?

Can I shut off my words?

YES!

I’ve discovered that I can!

It’s not easy (especially if I’m playing something like the score to a Pop Song).

But, it is possible. And the more practiced I’ve become at this, the easier

(1) Deliberate Practice and (2) Playing have become for me.

When it comes to Music, I’ve found that Focusing on

JUST THE MUSIC = The Secret Ingredient!

Suddenly, I am able to play without the Labeling, before I start or during!

It’s like the Notes hit my eardrums and, as soon as I perceive the sounds they produce, they calm & quiet my Wordy Writer’s Mind.

Yet again, experimentation to find a better way of Being is the path forward.

It’s still not easy.

It doesn’t work every time.

But, I think it will work better & better, the more I keep at it.

Now, take a Mindful Minute to reflect on your life:

⭐️ What’s YOUR Recipe for Happiness?

⭐️ Do you ever tweak your Recipe?

⭐️ Do you have something in your life, a Goal that’s thwarted by an annoyingly verbose mind?

⭐️ Do you tend to Label tasks you have to do, making it that much harder to get it done? Or does it make you avoid the task altogether?

⭐️ Do you ever drop into Wordlessness?

⭐️ If not, do you think you might give Wordlessness a try?

⭐️ How might Wordlessness help you?

The Deliberately WORDLESS Writer in me honors & respects the Deliberately WORDLESS Reader in each of you,

Marisa

⭐️ Do you have all the answers? No? Me neither. ⭐️

⭐️ No problem, because we don’t have to figure it out, all alone. ⭐️

We can find solutions, together!

Please join us in my

This is a special group for Writers, Artists, & Creatives like us, to have deep conversations about the Books that we choose, so we can implement what we learn, and unearth our truest, most Authentic Selves.

It’s the perfect way to

Share Our Recipes for Happiness:

• Have fun together;
• Share our triumphs;
• Vent from time to time — we’re human after all!
• Take a lighthearted approach to private journaling & Artist’s Dates; and,
• Grow the CREATIVE GENIUS inside all of us! 💐🌺🌷🌸🌹🌻🌼

Share Our Work (allow our True Self to be Seen):

With Notes Boost Challenges (NBC), we can share our favorite Notes of the week.

And, when we’d like, we can share our Works In Progress (WIP) and/or Final Posts, Music, & Art…whatever we’re proud of!

So we can Like, Comment, and/or Restack each others’ work to…

Share Our Joy (experience Connection with a kind & supportive Creative Community):

This is how we can come together, to grow through our own individual efforts, and feel the support of a kind & supportive Creative Community, too.

If that sounds good to you, then join us & say hello!

Join Marisa Victus’s subscriber chat

Available in the Substack app and on web

Here’s what we’ve been up to in the STUDY, SAVOR, & SUPPORT Each Other CHAT! ☕️🍵 !

It’s WEEK #3 of The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron: Recovering a Sense of Power.

In Chapter 2, I loved how JC normalized all the negative outside obstacles we might encounter, to emphasize that they are not defects, but simply part of the design on our creative journeys.

In Chapter 3, JC normalizes the seemingly-negative inner experiences that we may have:

• Anger

• Skepticism about Synchronicities

• Shame

• Criticism

I find it helpful to remember I have a choice when facing all these challenges.

⭐️ Don’t you?

It makes me realize that my initial reactions — especially if they’re negative — might be showing me only one side of the coin.

Here are some journaling prompts to consider this week:

🔬 Can we pay closer attention to our initial — often emotionally painful — reactions?

🔬 Can we ask ourselves to examine the opposite (how might this serve us)?

🔬 Does considering the opposite make us feel resistance, or does it expand our perspective?

🔬 Does this practice empower us to make better choices?

🔬 Does this practice point me in a better direction?

⭐️ Please share your thoughts.

⭐️ Did anything from Chapter 3 resonate with you?

⭐️ Is there a different journaling prompt that’s helped you to grapple with these concepts?

Let’s support each other in the Chat!

We got this! 💪😉🙌

Pull up a seat & come to our comfy & cozy Creative CHAT! Here’s to the Creative CHAT for me & you! 🎉📚🥳📚🎉

If it’s not your cuppa tea/coffee/chai/matcha/whatevs,

Please Note:

For anyone who does not wish to participate in the Study, Savor, & Support each other CHAT, no problemo!

I will still publish my Newsletter, M&Ms, Sing-Along Storytime, Music, Videos, Science Fiction writing, & more!

If you have any comments or questions, please feel free to send me a DM.

Have a fantastic weekend!

The Creative in me honors & respects the Creative in each of you,

Marisa

If you love to learn about the science of self-improvement, please Subscribe to my YouTube Channel and signup for my free Substack Newsletter.

Together, we’ll explore all the ways that we can 10x our life — mind, body, & soul.

We’ll learn the scientific, physiological, and psychological reasons why we are the way that we are, and combine that understanding with simple, active practices that will:

• Enliven our emotions & creativity;

• Enhance our efficiency & productivity;

• Foster a greater depth of Self;

• Build the Secure Attachment that we need to develop a Growth Mindset; and,

• Reprogram our minds to pivot from the Sympathetic Nervous System to the Parasympathetic Nervous System when we need it to, more often than not.

I’ve planned so many exciting & fun things to share with you (in addition to music!) and I can’t wait for you to get all the FREE goodies I’ve prepared for you.

We CAN do this, TOGETHER!

Are you serious about self-improvement & want to have unstoppable self-belief?

Then SUBSCRIBE TO MY FREE SUBSTACK and entrain your brain the quick & easy way, with my daily Mindset & Meditation (M&M) practice.

Every day, I write & share 1 handwritten M&M in my “Notes” if you want to grow with me.

To learn how, click this link.

In addition, new Chapters for my serialized science fiction series (THE OBSIDIAN CHRONICLES) are released every weekend, and Subscribers can read the 1st Book in the series for FREE! Just click here (or visit https://marisavictus.substack.com/account) to opt-in + receive my Fiction writing!

Marisa

Where’s the HELLO KITTY in your life?!

Remember, My RECIPE for Happiness?

In last week’s POST, I gave you my Recipe for Happiness.

POP QUIZ!

What was Ingredient #2?

🌸 Be playful!

OMG, how incredibly LONG it took me to do this.

Seriously, I am rage-crying at myself for taking so god-damn LONG to get here. 😭🥹

Why?

Because I think of ALL the years I wasted being too serious.

Too stuffy.

Too miserable.

Looking back, I try to give myself grace, because I was raised by Perfectionists.

To not only get the A but, if there was any extra credit, well I better earn all of it, to get that A+.

Did it stop when I graduated from college?

When I went to law school?

When I became an Attorney?

Nope.

It morphed.

The Pitbull Partner became my new measuring stick.

“Are you like him?” I subconsiously asked myself.

“Do you have what it takes to be successful, like he is?”

Ignoring the fact that I despised his personality and mean-spirited temperament, that’s what was on my mind.

Because he appeared to be what would make me a successful Attorney, too.

It took me five minutes to see that his personal life sucked. He was miserable. On his fourth marriage. Soon to be divorced, yet again.

And, ultimately, less than a year for me to see that there were better ways to practice law.

I only had to see a far more intelligent Partner practice to see the light at the end of that tunnel.

Seeing better ways of Being was the path forward.

Was it easy?

Absolutely not!

Because…

My Upbringing made me A Perfectionistic Curmudgeon.

I realized this slowly.

And in the subtlest of ways.

Take my iPhone for example.

For YEARS, I only allowed myself to buy something “Professional.”

Something “sensible.”

Something that was Grey.

Or Black.

In other words, DULL.

My Inner Child had other plans.

I grew up OBSESSED with Hello Kitty.

I could go into a Sanrio store and get lost in all the cute little toys and stationary and stamps and key chains for HOURS.

I loved all the characters.

I wanted one of absolutely everything!

And yet, my Inner Critic whispered…

You’re a “Grown Adult” now.

“A Serious Attorney.”

“A Litigator.”

“A Negotiator.”

“A Counselor.”

I had to exude not only confidence and legal prowess, but Seriousness.

The kind that had to be dressed in a Power-Suit.

All the while, my Inner Child longed for something Sanrio.

Sanrio was my Creativity.

It was my Personality.

It was what I adored and loved.

The same way I’m in love — and will forever love — Creative Writing. Art. Music.

Everything changed when the Zealous Advocate I was trained to be, started to FINALLY advocate for my Authentic Self!

“Don’t do it!” they warned me. “You WON’T be seen as a Serious Attorney!”

Listening to them for YEARS was my biggest mistake.

I fractured my Self when I hid all of my Creative pursuits.

Until one day, I realized, “This suffering isn’t worth it.”

My body pained me with migraines, depression, and anxiety, until I declared “No more!” and realized,

I needed to advocate for my SELF!

I let loose My Inner Hello Kitty! RAWR!

I LET GO of the Limiting Belief that I had to change who I am to be successful, respected, or loved.

I learned that there’s tremendous Power when we allow our True Self to be seen.

And I found FREEDOM!

In wearing PINK.

Yup! That’s how it started. So very, very small.

Until it morphed into so much more.

Wearing pink and every color imaginable, something bright and bursting with joy, each and every day.

So much so, strangers who see me often will come up to compliment me and say, “That pink you wear? That’s your signature!”

They ask me, “Where do you buy your pink lipstick?” I tell ’em and they buy it for themselves.

And — it warms my heart! — when I see all my friends who mostly wear black excited to show me they’re wearing bright bursts of color! “We match!” they exclaim, with massive smiles.

It’s just COLOR, but for our spirit, it’s INVIGORATING!

Together, we revel in the freedom — the FUN & FLOW — we gain from LIVING, carefree!

YES, in this most subtlest of ways, we get to be free from the confines of a society that tell us that you can only be successful, respected, and/or loved if you behave / dress / talk / exist in a certain type of way.

And it makes you wonder…what other silly Limiting Beliefs am I allowing?

Are they helping me to TRULY LIVE my life?!

We can QUESTION our Inner Critic.

We can ask:

Who are we performing for?

Who are we living for?

Who are we masking for?

I’ve stopped hiding who I am. See?

Now, take a Mindful Minute to reflect on your life:

⭐️ Are you happy living in the shadows?

⭐️ Or, are you shining bright, in the light?

⭐️ Is your Spirit bursting full of color?

⭐️ Are you allowing your Truest, Most Authentic, Self to be seen?!

Take it from me, there’s so much to be gained when you stop living like the shell of who you are.

Embrace the REAL YOU.

Live Authentically.

STOP pretending you’re happy.

START being happy.

The Hello Kitty in me honors & respects the Hello Kitty in each of you,

Marisa

⭐️ Remember, you don’t have to have all of the answers. ⭐️

⭐️ And you don’t have to figure it out all alone, on your own. ⭐️

You’re welcome to join us in my

This is a special group for Writers, Artists, & Creatives like us, to have deep conversations about the Books that we choose, so we can implement what we learn, and unearth our truest, most Authentic Selves.

It’s the perfect way to

Share Our Recipes for Happiness:

• Have fun together;
• Share our triumphs;
• Vent from time to time — we’re human after all!
• Take a lighthearted approach to private journaling & Artist’s Dates; and,
• Grow the CREATIVE GENIUS inside all of us! 💐🌺🌷🌸🌹🌻🌼

Share Our Work (allow our True Self to be Seen):

With Notes Boost Challenges (NBC), we can share our favorite Notes of the week.

And, when we’d like, we can share our Works In Progress (WIP) and/or Final Posts, Music, & Art…whatever we’re proud of!

So we can Like, Comment, and/or Restack each others’ work to…

Share Our Joy (experience Connection with a kind & supportive Creative Community):

This is how we can come together, to grow through our own individual efforts, and feel the support of a kind & supportive Creative Community, too.

If that sounds good to you, then join us & say hello!

Join Marisa Victus’s subscriber chat

Available in the Substack app and on web

Join chat

Here’s what we’ve been up to in the STUDY, SAVOR, & SUPPORT Each Other CHAT! ☕️🍵 !

It’s WEEK #2 of The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron: Recovering a Sense of Identity.

I love how JC warns us about the common pitfalls all Creatives encounter when they embark on their journey of self-discovery & creative expression.

What makes it so refreshing is how she normalizes all the challenges:

• It’s normal to have an Inner Critic who needles you with little mental digs, to undercut the progress you’re making.

• It’s normal to be misguided, distracted, and sometimes completely thwarted by other people who are Blocked Creatives themselves.

• It’s normal to be targeted by Crazymakers who try to pull us into their storm centers.

• It’s normal to have an Inner Skeptic who doesn’t accept or is quick to dismiss the creative opportunities that come to us.

• It’s normal to Daydream of the past or of the future, rather than focus on what’s possible in the present moment.

I find it helpful to Normalize all these challenges.

⭐️ Don’t you?

It makes me realize that facing any of these challenges and the related feelings of discomfort, avoidance, annoyance or fear are not defects. They’re simply part of the design.

They’re steps on the journey that most, if not all of us, will face from time to time. And that’s perfectly okay.

Even better? Coming together as a community of Creatives — among other Writers and Artists like you! — who “get it.” It’s freeing to realize we’re not alone in our struggles. It’s normal to have doubts, even normal to want to run for the hills!

But what we must not do is give up.

I feel stronger with the support of you all here. I hope I can encourage you to keep going, while I do the same.

⭐️ What about you?

⭐️ Please share your thoughts.

⭐️ Did anything from Chapter 2 or even Chapter 1 resonate with you?

Let’s support each other in the Chat!

Pull up a seat & come to our comfy & cozy Creative CHAT! Here’s to the Creative CHAT for me & you! 🎉📚🥳📚🎉

If it’s not your cuppa tea/coffee/chai/matcha/whatevs, please Note:

For anyone who does not wish to participate in the Study, Savor, & Support each other CHAT, no problemo!

I will still publish my Newsletter, M&Ms, Sing-Along Storytime, Music, Videos, Science Fiction writing, & more!

If you have any comments or questions, please feel free to send me a DM.

Have a fantastic weekend!

The Creative in me honors & respects the Creative in each of you,

Marisa

Subscribe if you want to see where this Creative Journey can take us!

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If you love to learn about the science of self-improvement, please Subscribe to my YouTube Channel and signup for my free Substack Newsletter.

Together, we’ll explore all the ways that we can 10x our life — mind, body, & soul.

We’ll learn the scientific, physiological, and psychological reasons why we are the way that we are, and combine that understanding with simple, active practices that will:

• Enliven our emotions & creativity;

• Enhance our efficiency & productivity;

• Foster a greater depth of Self;

• Build the Secure Attachment that we need to develop a Growth Mindset; and,

• Reprogram our minds to pivot from the Sympathetic Nervous System to the Parasympathetic Nervous System when we need it to, more often than not.

I’ve planned so many exciting & fun things to share with you (in addition to music!) and I can’t wait for you to get all the FREE goodies I’ve prepared for you.

We CAN do this, TOGETHER!

Are you serious about self-improvement & want to have unstoppable self-belief?

Then SUBSCRIBE TO MY FREE SUBSTACK and entrain your brain the quick & easy way, with my daily Mindset & Meditation (M&M) practice.

Every day, I write & share 1 handwritten M&M in my “Notes” if you want to grow with me.

To learn how, click this link.

In addition, new Chapters for my serialized science fiction series (THE OBSIDIAN CHRONICLES) are released every weekend, and Subscribers can read the 1st Book in the series for FREE! Just click here (or visit https://marisavictus.substack.com/account) to opt-in + receive my Fiction writing!

Marisa

My Recipe for Happiness is Authenticity over Approval. What’s yours?

My RECIPE for Happiness

Over the years, I’ve come up with my own recipe for happiness:

Welcome the day with

🙏 gratitude & curiosity🌈.

🌸 Be playful.

🧘🏻‍♀️ Immerse yourself in your physical senses.

🌹 Feel your feelings.

💨 Breathe through all of them.

🌻 Pay attention to your thoughts,

🧘🏻‍♀️ mindfully without judgment 🤗.

🦸🏻‍♀️ Live authentically.

💯 Be true to YOU!

All of these ingredients help me to honor myself & live by my new mantra:

💥 Authenticity over Approval 💥

💥 Authenticity over Approval 💥

💥 Authenticity over Approval 💥

It’s completely transformed my mind, my work, & my physical and mental health.

Because there’s limitless opportunity for transformation…

And tremendous Power when we allow our True Self to be seen.

But sharing your True Self can also be HARD.

So I’ve had to tweak my recipe.

When being TRUE to YOU is challenging,

add 2 special ingredients:

(1) Special Ingredient #1 =

🙋🏻‍♀️ Self-Love

Self-Love’s been my #1 solution. The more I’ve come to accept who I am and love myself — regardless of what other people might think — the more safe & secure I feel to keep learning and keep growing, without that urge for approval I used to have.

(2) Special Ingredient #2 =

🤗 Connection with Community

This is the special ingredient that brings PURPOSE & MEANING to my Life.

And it’s a total 180, compared to how I used to live.

I used to hide who I was.

I used to suffer in silence, all alone.

I used to feel like no one in the world knew who I truly was.

They saw me (and didn’t want to see me as anything other than) as an Attorney.

They didn’t know I loved to do creative writing, art, or music.

And — when I was finally brave enough to share — they not only “didn’t get it.”

They told me to NOT do — or at least hide — these things.

Talk about feeling rejected!

I felt so alone.

Because I didn’t know any other Writers, Artists, or Creatives like me.

Without realizing it, I became a “Shadow Artist” — a term coined by Julia Cameron in her book, The Artist’s Way.

As she puts it, I was one of the “Young writers…pushed toward lawyering, a talky, wordy profession….”

She even described what happened to me: It’s the “rare family, faced with the myth of the starving artist, [that] tells its children to go right ahead and try for a career in the arts. Instead, if encouraged at all, the children are urged into thinking of the arts as hobbies, creative fluff around the edges of real life.”

“They [were] raised to the role of shadow artist and…need to work consciously to dismantle it.”

Dismantling may be hard, but that’s precisely what I aim to do for the rest of my life, however long it takes!

💥Creative Fluff, no more!

💥Shadow Artist, be gone!

Yes, this is the time to fully express and honor who I am: A writer! An artist! A musician!

Now, take a Mindful Minute to reflect on your life:

⭐️ What about you?

⭐️ Are you ready to set your intention for your lifelong Creative journey?

⭐️ What kind of Creative do you intend to fully be?

⭐️ What’s YOUR Recipe for Happiness?

Remember, you don’t have to have all of the answers.

And you don’t have to figure it out all alone, on your own.

You’re welcome to join us in my

This is a special group for Writers, Artists, & Creatives like us, to have deep conversations about the Books that we choose, so we can implement what we learn, and unearth our truest, most Authentic Selves.

It’s the perfect way to

Share Our Recipes for Happiness:

• Have fun together;
• Share our triumphs;
• Vent from time to time — we’re human after all!
• Take a lighthearted approach to private journaling & Artist’s Dates; and,
• Grow the CREATIVE GENIUS inside all of us! 💐🌺🌷🌸🌹🌻🌼

Share Our Work (allow our True Self to be Seen):

With Notes Boost Challenges (NBC), we can share our favorite Notes of the week.

And, when we’d like, we can share our Works In Progress (WIP) and/or Final Posts, Music, & Art…whatever we’re proud of!

So we can Like, Comment, and/or Restack each others’ work to…

Share Our Joy (experience Connection with a kind & supportive Creative Community):

This is how we can come together, to grow through our own individual efforts, and feel the support of a kind & supportive Creative Community, too.

If that sounds good to you, then join us & say hello!

Join Marisa Victus’s subscriber chat

Available in the Substack app and on web

Join chat

Please Note:

For anyone who does not wish to participate in the Study, Savor, & Support each other CHAT, no problemo!

I will still publish my Newsletter, M&Ms, Sing-Along Storytime, Music, Videos, Science Fiction writing, & more!

If you have any comments or questions, please feel free to send me a DM.

Have a fantastic weekend!

The Creative in me honors & respects the Creative in each of you,

Marisa

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Together, we’ll explore all the ways that we can 10x our life — mind, body, & soul.

We’ll learn the scientific, physiological, and psychological reasons why we are the way that we are, and combine that understanding with simple, active practices that will:

• Enliven our emotions & creativity;

• Enhance our efficiency & productivity;

• Foster a greater depth of Self;

• Build the Secure Attachment that we need to develop a Growth Mindset; and,

• Reprogram our minds to pivot from the Sympathetic Nervous System to the Parasympathetic Nervous System when we need it to, more often than not.

I’ve planned so many exciting & fun things to share with you (in addition to music!) and I can’t wait for you to get all the FREE goodies I’ve prepared for you.

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