I've come to believe there's a point in every healing journey where talking therapy reaches its limitation. What's required next or alongside cannot happen in the mind. This is when we feel called to return to our body. This is where the cycle completes.

The balm we find here can only release when we're connected to our heart. It's somatic. It's learning to rest in the skin we were taught to hide and feel ashamed of.

It's reassuring our nervous system we're safe when we tremble and taking tiny step after tiny step towards full body awareness. Embodiment. Once we accept. We can express. We can be.

You might not feel called to put on ballet shoes as an adult beginner like I did, but whatever soulful movement you're curious about - even if it feels scary, ridiculous or too late to start, please listen to what you're body is trying to say, trust the unknown and make the first move.

It doesn't matter how it looks (don't tell my ballet teacher I said that ;)) that will come in time with consistency. All that matters is how it feels.

Book the class, sign up for an online membership, buy the leotard. I promise, it's a whole other level of medicine.

- a few thoughts from a substack letter I'm writing about learning to be seen.