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A few reminders to start your weekend on the best note

PSA: The only evil lives in your mind
all the stress and overwhelm,
All your outrage (be it Olympics or anything else) going on “out there” is really an indication of whats going on INSIDE you
is just your conditioned beliefs, raging as they are challenged, trying to keep your self worth issues from being discovered.

The beautiful thing is, when you feel that outrage it means your pain body is being exposed and that is the PERFECT time to peek below the surface with curiosity about what those beliefs are

Curiosity if holding them so tightly is still serving you, the way it did when they were created

When we are willing to look within , honestly identify the overgrown w**ds that we’ve allowed to consume the landscape, take responsibility for the consequences of that wild mess, and lovingly w**d to the garden of our mind, only then can we create the most beautiful landscape we can imagine

Only then can we disengage from the anxiety, stress, fear, shame, frustration, resentment and anger

Only then can we take our power back from the story we have been creating through the window obscured by all those wild w**ds, and see more clearly the reality that feels most Fullfilling

Only then can we write a script made of scenes that are ful of ALIVENESS

There is a path and process to finding your aliveness

There is a way beyond stress and frustration and exhaustion

I know they way and I am delighted to walk it with you

It’s Time to RISE & SHINE Ladies!

The time is now!
ALIVENESS workshop Fri/Sat online & in person
Dm for registration

Late fall of 2004 I packed up my little blue honda CRV
And started driving from Maine…
I wasn’t sure where I would land

I had a flip phone (which was pretty new for me), an atlas the size of my entire torso, and an adventurous spirit

Along the way I answered a Craigslist ad for a roommate
had a phone call with one of the 3 guys who lived in the house and after that call, I put a check in the mail to him for my deposit- sight unseen

I was trusting the check would get there and that I would be allowed in when I arrived- which would be days after they’d cashed it

I’d just rented a room In a ski house in Lake Tahoe California

3,000 miles from where I’d started that drive

At that point in my life, I traveled with the seasons for 4 straight years, moving all over the US working the tourist season then moving on.

I intended for this stop to be the same- work the winter and then find my next summer adventure

Little did I know Lake Tahoe would capture my heart and change my life forever

I learned to ski
Then I learned to rock climb

I bought my first tent, and then my first everything else gear and camping related!

Made the best of friends, and lost some really good ones too

Made a baby and became a mom 💕

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Leave a 🦋 if this strikes something in you

Do you remember what ALIVENESS feels like for you?
Do you want to?

We’re held hostage by everything we’ve outgrown...

yet refuse to release.

Let that sink in

Comment “RISE” for info Rise & Shine, an 8 week Women’s microdose adventure into personal evolution

We create the bars that cage us in by clinging to the stories, people, jobs, thoughts, actions and beliefs that are no longer a fit

Like a growing child forced to wear last year’s clothes, we walk around feeling restricted, unable to take a deep breath or ever fully relax

trapped in our own skin by the extra load we outgrew but are stubbornly still carrying

If we let this go on awhile we can sort of forget that sleeves are too short and our pants too narrow, but we feel it in other ways

A nagging anxiety creeps in, it greets us each morning and tucks us in every night

Its subtle at first but soon we notice that we are snappy and irritated in our everyday tasks

Unfulfilled and depressed in our outdated routines

Uninspired

Eventually the discomfort persists and we are very aware that our sleeves are too short our shirt is too tight and F these damn pants that we can barely stuff ourselves in anymore!

This is when we usually reach for something to numb the discomfort.

That seemingly harmless nightly glass of wine
Pacifying the stress with food
Mindless scrolling to distract from our feelings
Extra workouts to try and outrun the anxiety
Maybe some anti-depressants to take the edge off

The best way to break free from this self-imposed prison is through connection

Rise & Shine was born to provide that space.
A space for incredible women who are doing incredible things but in some outdated outfits that are holding them hostage

Women who are ready to get out of the restrictive mindset, stories, and actions, and expand into their full vitality and creativity!

Women who want to feel turned on by Life again

Radiant
Curious
Expansive

Women who are ready to
✨ RISE & SHINE ✨

Are you ready to release what you’ve outgrown and stop being a hostage to your outdated stories?

The Rise and Shine Sanctuary opens in August, a perfect time to evolve 🦋

Continuing to evolve my “midwife” role, in finding more people READY to embrace the reality that healing happens at the level of Beliefs + energetics, as well as at the physical level. It’s always both. Identifying the beliefs that created the physical issues, and supporting the physical issues while you desire the beliefs.
Red light therapy has become one of my top ways of addressing health at the cellular level

Here’s a little reminder of how to optimize your red light therapy for all the new users in my world
Wholistic healing at its finest

It was early spring 2017
I’d completed a 200 hour yoga teacher training and was now midway through a 300 hour combined shamanic studies/yoga teacher training.
Part of our certification included mastering the transformational power Breathwork and facilitating Breathwork journeys for emotional and physical healing.
Honestly, I didn’t get it at first. I mean, I understood the power and importance of breath from my education as a doula and midwife. Breath was a huge part of my toolkit in that arena.
But “Breathwork” as it is known- I just didn’t get it. I breathed in and out fast and strong and nothing happened.
I felt annoyed. Angry almost. Each weekend I would endure another breath practice and each time I felt the same annoyance, the same confusion, what was the point of this?
I chose to focus more on facilitating than experiencing the breathe for myself since it just didn’t seem to “work” for me.
Facilitation was second nature. The midwife in me already knew well how to hold safe and grounded space for people while they traverse deep waters and go through major transformations. I knew how to prepare them and guide them and help them integrate the experience on the other side.
Then one day something different happened. I cracked open. I “got it.” I had the most blissful and transcendent experience- simply from breathing!
Since that day 7 years ago, I’ve studied and certified in numerous styles and methods of breathing. I have helped people heal all sorts of tenderness that needing healing.
Emotions
Traumas
Fears
Seizures
And birth new ideas, businesses and relationship insights, all with the breath.

It is my great honor to bring these teachings to my local community and to do it with such a stunning collaborator and gifted sound healer.

Join us march 24th at the beautiful where I will guide you through a transformational breath practice and will envelope you in a healing sound bath to calibrate your being to this new and lighter frequency of existence.

Let’s make the most of Spring Equinox energy and step into the season awakened and renewed!

🦋

We often confuse niceness for kindness.

And label directness as mean.

We refrain from giving honest feedback because we “don’t want to hurt their feelings” but guess what, that person is already hurting. Read that again.
They are already suffering, I promise you

That’s why they are acting the way they are.

***You aren’t saving them from pain, you are preventing them from growing, and therefore from feeling better***

In order to grow (or heal) we have to BREAK THROUGH the present moment limitations in our thinking.

To do that we need to “poke the bear”

Meaning, pe*****te our subconscious, that storage shed of stories, traumas, and beliefs that we are biologically designed to protect from provocation, yep that one.

The amygdala is beautifully designed to resist these attempts at pe*******on.

Its like a fortress holding all the “bad” stuff and keeping close track of it for us.

As you might imagine, it doesn’t take kindly to being F’d with.

Not only does it store things, it also pumps out filters for us to see the World through, based on what’s in that storage locker.

Sooo yea, it can be uncomfortable to get in there and rewire the database

but that thing everyone is being too nice to poke, it needs to get poked if we wanna have feel better.

Personally, I think that helping someone storm the fortress walls and BREAK THROUGH the limitations currently running the show is
THE MOST KIND thing one can do.

If you want someone to p***y foot around with you, hold hands and validate all of your (victim) stories, by all means find that, its everywhere.

Be clear and honest with yourself that that is what you want.

If you are saying you want help making radical change then accept it, and the momentary discomfort it comes with

When you are ready for someone to be kind enough to honor your time, money, resources, intelligence, and your commitment to evolving and having a better life then I am your girl.

Let’s not p***y foot around (though we might hold hands because I like that ;) )

Direct can be the most loving and kind path to awakening

Why Everyone -yes even men- needs a Midwife in Life:

In the last 20 years of loving humans through big transformations, I have noted the

4 KEY UNIVERSAL TRUTHS

that yield the best outcomes for metaMORPHAsis - and all of them were shown to me first as I welcomed over 100 babies to Earth.

The process remains the same for every other form of creation, transformation, or vision going forward, which is why ALL PEOPLE NEED MIDWIVES to walk with them on their own evolutionary adventure.

Universal Truths:

1. The most lasting change happens outside one's comfort zone

this may sound obvious but people easily miss what this means. Literally getting out of familiar territory to new environments compounds the efficacy of any coaching, workshop, program, training, healing, or journey.
** In childbirth I recommend staying IN familiar surroundings but that's because the Inner Birth terrain itself is plenty new and unfamiliar

2. It doesn't always look pretty, or sound sweet, or feel warm and fuzzy

Our subconscious/personality/amygdala has one job- SURVIVAL. to mitigate risk and keep us safe. Its damn good at it, and it reallllly doesn't respond well to being poked. But ya know what- often the most effective method to breakthrough those limiting patterns of thought and create real and lasting change of perception is by poking.

3. The most profound creations (including babies) emerge from being pushed to the edge.

And its really valuable having a super grounded presence next to you on that edge

4. Levity is a KEY ingredient for optimal outcomes

We must keep our sense of humor intact and be provided opportunities to laugh at ourselves, and to Play. To make light, to marvel at the absurdity, especially as we expand our perception and SEE how limiting and silly our previous thought forms were. Without bringing Levity here we slip into shame. That completely destroys the progress

When you align yourself with support that understands, honors, and operates within these truths, the success of the transformation you set out to create increases exponentially

We have countless beliefs hardwired into our minds, created and embedded during our earliest life experiences, and still operating today. Our thoughts are born through these beliefs. How we view our circumstances and relationships are all through the lens of our beliefs.

Beliefs -> thoughts -> experiences

If you want to have different/ better feeling experiences you’ve got to update the belief hardware running your show

That process can be uncomfortable but it can also be full of loving support and FUN!
Ask me how I know 😏

Loving you in your fullest expression! 🦋

YOU DON’T F’N KNOW ME!

(Pardon me, I don’t mean to yell, but It’s necessary)

These words started as a playful way for me to prepare for a massive commitment that was on the horizon

As that commitment approached, the words became more meaningful.

Days before THE BIG DAY, our guide asked us to share our mantra, for the inevitable hard moments that would greet us.

Amidst the groups’ “each step makes me stronger” and “I can do hard things” was my mantra - “You don’t fu*king know me”

What started out as a playful idea adopted from a story a friend shared with me, became the single most impactful phrase I’ve ever said to create my own personal transformation

And I dare say it impacted a few others on the trail with me that day

We began the descent into the Grand Canyon, the beginning of 20 miles, Rim to a river to Rim, 4,500 feet down and then 4,500 feet back up, in one day

27 degrees at Sunrise and high spirits

Walking alongside our guide for a short spell early on he says, “Launa, I gotta ask what’s the story with your mantra??”

Probably not one he often hears

I opened my mouth to answer and right in that moment it all became clear why those words weren’t just play, they mattered to me

I told him, “You don’t know me is what I’m saying to remove any story. Any limitation about what’s possible for me today.
If I feel pain, I’m not going to let it mean that this will be too hard. Or that I can’t do it. Or even that it will hurt the whole time. I’m not going to let it mean anything.

My past health issues don’t get to dictate what happens today. That was a past Launa and now you don’t know me.
This place doesn’t know me.
No one’s judgments, fears, or concerns about me (however well-intentioned) get to have a say, They don’t know me!”

I don’t even know me!”

Total freedom

Free from story

Free from expectation

That was exactly what I needed for this endeavor.
But I couldn’t yet know the total impact that mantra would have. That would be revealed later- in layers- over many many miles…

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Loving you big 🦋

One of the fortunate gifts in moving homes

(Especially after your belongings have been in storage for minimum of 2-4 years)

…Is stumbling upon the treasures long forgotten

The emotions captured in the memoirs gathered

from the many people, places, and times gone by

Each day this week brought new discoveries of vintage moments, all tugging on a different corner of my heart

This one brought a fine mist to my eye

Relationships are everything
How can you nurture today, the ones that matter to you most?

Lovin’ you big 🦋

Relational conflict

It’s been all around me, included me, and very alive in my world lately

As long as we are relational beings, I believe this will always be a part of our evolutionary existence

At a recent in-person group experience, multiple instances of interpersonal conflict occured

group dynamics do tend to be ripe terrain for this!

It’s also been the topic of my daily contemplation for over 3 weeks.

We tend to be open to sharing that we are upset about something, but over and over I find people stopping there.

Not taking a next step to contemplate WHY they’re truly upset. Yes, they say it’s because of X, (usually an action of another person)
Inner
It’s rarely “the thing” they thought it was.

And even if we say it IS that thing,

WHY does that “thing” upset you?

What do you make it mean?

And what do you get/how do you benefit from being upset?

Mmhmm, you’re getting something your persona feels is positive and justifying your upsetness

It’s validating some story in you.

Is it that you’re a victim of something?

That people always judge you?

That no one includes you?

What’s the part of you that’s getting off on being upset?

It’s a bold question. Are you brave enough to really look inside and then own it?

Your expanded Personal Power lies on the other side of you getting real honest about what that story is and acknowledging it out loud

Deep work

✨ Get in the trenches of your soul and clear the shadowy kink so that more light can come in

Totally worth it

Lovin you 🦋

📸: In Her Image Photography 💓

Everyone is starving for connection

To be really seen, to feel close, to be loved
And yet F E A R

of being seen, and being judged or rejected, often keeps us from being vulnerable
Which is required for connection and closeness and intimacy with others

Only C O U R A G E to be vulnerable can overcome the fear

Let the fear be your compass
It is showing you the way to connection

HOME is such a fascinating concept

More of a feeling than a location

More state of Being than state of place

Home is really a sense of center inside oneself, a sense oneness with everything else

And yet... there are those magical places that provide that feeling

no matter how long it has been or how far I have roamed, this lake, these mountains, and this sky will always be my HOME

Where do you feel most at home?
🦋

Life can change in an instant

We can fall in love in one instant

We can lose someone we love, in an instant

We can receive millions, in an instant

We can spend millions in an instant

We can change our minds in one single instant

And in that instant the whole world changes

One instant

One breath

Everything can change

Wow.

What an absolute miracle this whole thing is 🦋

Message for the day... for this year... for life!

"If you police your ideas and beliefs, you put yourself in prison,

and if you are afraid to listen to the beliefs of others, to which you don't agree, you make your own bars.

And if you cannot react playfully to those who hold other beliefs than yours, then you have a lot to learn about being Sumari." ~ Seth

We can be passionate and playful at the same time.

Not becoming judgmental when we disagree doesn’t mean we don’t care.

Doesn’t mean we’ve abandoned our values.

It means we’ve done the work to evolve our angry inner child.

We’ve evolved our emotional intelligence enough to HOLD our beliefs and passions, and someone else’s differing opinion.

Can you imagine a life where you don’t feel threatened by disagreement?

Oooh that’s the juice.

Channel the playful dolphin energy. You can keep your passion too, I promise

Shout out to sisterhood

To our ride or die besties

To growing together, over decades

To always championing each other

And to speaking the truth even when it’s hard

To love, to connection, to real friendship

May we all know the deep love of a best friend

I celebrate Us! And soak up every precious moment I get with my amazing village of women

We are a tribal species, we are wired for connection

Connection is the juice

Friendship is the treasure

Love is the gift

Grateful is my heart

Life is ART

The ART of choice

Mixed with TRUST

Trust In Source and in the YOU of you

I’m Wrapping up my final weeks (for now) in Costa Rica, and the experiences I’ve been gifted are beyond words

But I know they are divinely orchestrated, because of

✨my trust that everything unfolds in magical ways + my understanding of the art of choice

Many of us have lost our ability to hear our intuition & to trust it

I sit with ancient medicines to keep my mind clean, clear, and in harmony with my heart, and with All That Is.

I sit with Indigenous guides because they carry in their lineage, in their cells, a communication with the medicine that cannot be duplicated by even the most spiritual white person

I sit so that I can be of greatest service to the world, to you 💓

I sit with medicine so that I can be clear of projections and programming and lead others as the clearest mirror possible

Do you need to sit with plant medicine to achieve this? Nope. But it sure does help to expedite the experience of healing, self-awareness and personal growth

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My mom once said,
“Strangers are just friends I haven’t met yet.”

That statement has stayed with me always, and is how I view my fellow humans. It is the way I move in the world.

I’m convinced these earrings (photo 2) bring me safe passage and encourage others to help me along my path.

Yea, I know earrings aren’t magical, but I also know the power of the mind. Whatever works! 🤷🏻‍♀️

If my mind believes people will naturally want to help me then I will approach people and my Interactions with that frequency and I will attract helpful and kind-hearted people.

If I believe everyone is a friend then I will treat them as such. When I invite them to meet me there it opens their heart.

Because we FEEL each other. Way before we hear each other’s words. It’s the frequency underneath all the words and actions.

And hey- thanks mom 🦋🌟

We are all babies

Little, sweet, young, emotional babies

On this ancient Earth 🌍

We feel things

We get sad

Just like we did when we were children

But for some wacky reason we stopped letting being sad be Ok

You know what though?

It is ok

Men feel sad

Women feel sad

And it’s all ok

The thing we need to remember is how to take care of us when we are sad

The good news is, it’s not very different than how you would take care of a small child who is sad

Maybe you didn’t get well cared for when you were a child so maybe you don’t know how to do it now

That’s also ok

It’s ok to have not done the best you could for your sad self in the past

Here’s some tips for taking good care of your sad self going forward…

☀️take a walk

💧 drink some water

🤗 ask for cuddles

💤 take a nap

👚 put on comfy clothes

🌈 make some art

🎶 listen to music

☎️ call a friend (you’ll learn who to call for the kind of support you need in that moment)

Over time you’ll get better at recognizing which of the above you need most- and maybe it’s all of them!

✨bonus tip- don’t make up a story about your sadness. Don’t try to figure out WHY, it doesn’t matter
No need to feel bad for feeling sad
Just let the sadness be there, love yourself in one or more ways listed 👆🏼 and the sadness will move on lo on It’s own

I love you 🤍
It’s going to be ok 🦋

There are so many well-meaning people in our lives- parents, siblings, best friends, co-workers, etc- who buscase they love us think they’re being supportive and helpful when they verbally squash our dreams.

Collectively, most people have stopped sharing their deepest dreams and desires with others because all too often, and from a young age, they’ve been told those dreams are:

Too big

Too risky

Unrealistic

Impossible

We share in our youth with such openness and get repeatedly shut down, until eventually we stop sharing.

We become:

Embarrassed

Ashamed

Insecure

We lose confidence. We feel foolish.

All those well-meaning friends who play devil’s advocate and highlight all the risks, the ones who tell us that’s just not how it works which makes us feel silly for having the dream in the first place, what they don’t realize is that they’re only expressing their OWN limiting beliefs.

They’re telling you the reasons someone told them about why THEY can’t have THEIR dreams.

They’re so afraid of ‘failure’ they are trying to spare you the thing they’ve been running from

What might happen if we raised our children to take risks?

What if we instilled so much confidence in them that they knew the voice of their intuition as clearly as they know their own heartbeat.

What might it be like if children were taught to trust that inner knowing with such unshakable confidence that they pursued their dreams and encouraged others to do the same?

Can you imagine what the world might look like?

I can. And it’s beautiful. 🦋

Resiliency is a M I N D S E T

It has nothing to do with age

WE are resilient Beings - if we choose to be 🦋

Do you ever find yourself defensive?
Resistent?
Fixed?

Do you ever forecast that your day is going to go badly because:

You didn’t get the best sleep?

Because someone didn’t respond to you the way you wanted them to?

Or because your smoothie spilled everywhere?

Have you ever decided something is the way it is and then dig your heels in, crossed your arms, and stood squarely in that muck?

Have you ever said that things are bad or your only going to struggle because you’re:

Too old
Too sick
Too broke
Too (name the thing that makes you somehow an exception to the universal laws of resilience and personal accountability)

Be honest.
Take a real good look.

I’d say we all do this, in some arena, to some degree, and With all the compassion in the world in here to tell you it’s a

TOTAL FU***NG COP OUT

Its lack of personal responsibility.

And there’s no shame in that. Just know that it’s totally 💯 up to you if you want a different experience.

Resiliency is a M I N D S E T 🦋

“So come, my friend, be not afraid. We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made ~ in love we disappear.” —Leonard Cohen 🤍

We are the love we seek

YOU are it

IT is you

We simply must remember

And when we do, everything changes

Would you like to come home to LOVE?

Maybe you’re not sure how?

It’s kind of fu***ng Amazing

I look forward for walking with you

📸:

I am LOVE

I radiate Divine love

And Love surrounds me

If you’ve embarked on a healing journey, or decided you want more out of life, you may have found yourself caught up in the constant messaging out there that we need to fix- everything.

Fix your diet

Fix your relationship

Fix your self-worth

Fix your career

Fix your nervous system

Fix your mindset

Or maybe your finding a lot of language long that suggests you have to heal these things

Heal your trauma

Heal your wounds

Heal your relationships

I invite you to consider that while healing some things may be a worthwhile endeavor, what things may just need to be HELD?

What is simply asking for presence? Space to be felt, time and attention to Be With the uncomfortable thing.

Be curious with yourself and with the mentors you’ve chosen to support you.

Is your efforting to heal really just avoidance in disguise?

What if you Do less and Be with more?

When we can sit with, and HOLD our hurt pieces, our pain, our struggles, often they begin to heal and shift and transform, all on their own.

There’s nothing to fix, I promise.

SHINE 🌟

Do it like it will SAVE THE WORLD
Shine like it’s your Mother F’n Job

We all have our own unique shine

Some of us are more outwardly shiny, some more of an inward shine

✨ALL of us are meant to be in our shine

We are worthy of and meant for lives that fuel our shine. To feel buckets of JOY and to experience tremendous fulfillment. And to stoke that goodness in others

When we are in our SHINE, we radiate, it’s like our own unique and harmonized frequency beams out of us and other people FEEL it.

We magnetize people who are a match for that frequency. In turn, we get more lit up, simply by engaging with those that are drawn to our shine

it’s RECIPROCAL

Giving and receiving. Lifting others and being lifted.

This can (and DOES) happen in small interactions- in the grocery store. It happens in the bigger ways we show up in the World- like at work or in our family roles

Sometimes our shine gets a little lackluster. We forget who we are, we let fear hold us back and keep us small and hidden.
We get caught up in the grind.

We forget the importance of loving ourselves.

The state of Self-Love collectively is rather grim. And the phrase has become a little cliche, a bit watered down, kind of murky.

HOW does one actually love themselves more or better?
And why does this matter so much? (More than anything really, IMO)

In 3 weeks We will dive into this, and more, together, for 6 months of 2022

We will experience the priceless ness of communing
Of finding our way back to ourSelves and sharing our SHINE

We will bask in the reciprocal nature of community relationships and soak up the gifts provided

Fill our cups

Open our hearts

And let the light of our container boost us into more confidente, peaceful and Joyful waters

This is for you. This is for me. Everyone benefits. Everyone gives and receives.
See you there ✨🦋