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Feeling strong somatic shifts in my body this weekend.

Continuing to build my sense of self & inner power and feeling empowered & inspired by such a wonderful community of musicians and artists to express myself fully and authentically through my voice, musical musings, art, being in service to others, and building community.

Warmly,
Josh

Stepping out into the sun today and really feeling the energy of the light fill me up. ☀️

I am reminded today to remain in my heart and to approach situations in my life from a place of love and pure potentiality. Asserting myself and my needs with trust and compassion.

I create my reality by leaning in with curiosity ✨

Warmly,
Josh

Wow, 2024 was such an expansive year, full of vibrancy and abundance. Reflecting back on the year past always has me feeling so amazed at how much life can change in such a short time.

Stepping into vibrancy: Christine Marie & I went on a sound healing tour in early 2024 down the West coast! It was such a fun and co-creative experience. We loved getting to connect to new people and continue to expand our community.

I attended my first-ever improv class series and it was such a fun and challenging undertaking. As someone who can often be in my head or overthinking, the practice of improv was such a powerful way to drop me into my body and into the present moment.

Cultivating creativity: I also found so much joy in learning and growing my skillsets with my various instruments & voice. I chose to shift my attention from doom scrolling on my phone (which I was not alway successful with) to putting an intention into my music and finding play and aliveness through creation (rather than consumption).

Building a home, family, & community: As many of you know, Christine Marie and I got engaged this year AND we bought our first home! It has been such an honor to walk this path with such a beautiful soul and I could not be more grateful. We have been calling a space for family and community for several years now and this year divinely supported us in doing just that. We have opened our space for new gatherings and offerings and even have two new kitties (Rama & Bobisana) to help hold safe & sacred space.

Deepening into ritual: I have found a wonderful tea practice which has allowed me to connect more deeply into parts of myself and subconscious as well as a deepening in with others. I have also found a stronger connection to my higher self through working with various plant medicines and offer much gratitude to the teachings of these plants and mentors who work with them.

As I step into 2025 I am hopeful and excited for what's to come!

Warmly,
Josh

I loved getting to celebrate our 2-year anniversary with this past week! ❤️

We recreated one of our first dates and spent the evening in the park overlooking the city. 🌳✨

When I think back over the past 2 years it's amazing to see how much my life has expanded and how much I have grown as person.

For me, relationships have been my biggest playground for self growth. They challenge me, push my edges, and mirror back to me all of the beautiful parts and shadow parts of myself. And my relationship to Christine Marie is the deepest and most intimate relationship I have ever experienced in this lifetime. Together we have created a security that allows us both the safety and permission to show up fully (the good, the bad, the messy). With this foundation, I have reached depths of connection I previously never thought possible or was not even aware of.

I am immensely grateful for for being such a light in my life. As we enter a new phase of our life with a new home, new ventures, and a recommitment to our passions, I look forward to all of the joy, play, change and growth we will discover together in the coming years.

- Josh

Celebrating! 🎉

Something I have been stepping into and embodying more intentionally the past 2 years.

I used to and still sometimes fall into moving on immediately after completing a task/endeavor or making a big decision. I would always be moving from a place of anxious doing and future tripping. Sights set to the next thing before I could even allow myself to consider the thing I had just completed.

On my journey I have learned the importance and the power that comes from creating intentional space to reflect and celebrate who I am, where I have been, and what I've accomplished. Doing so has allowed me to begin building back my self-confidence, trust in myself, and has brought more joy and peacefulness j to my life. It also helps me to better understand myself and what I want and need in the world.

This past Friday my Love and I created intentional space together to share and celebrate our wins. It was a beautiful opportunity to share how excited for and proud of her I am, while also getting to fully receive the love and celebration in which she showered me.

This season of my life has been full of new adventures, risk, challenging situations, joy, and sadness. And it's been wonderful to celebrate all of it equally and fully.

I hope you find the space to celebrate yourself, even in the smallest wins.

Warmly,
Josh

Hola from Mexico City!

I landed Friday & am having a beautiful week exploring all the city has to offer. I am leaning into the wonder & childlike joy that traveling in this way can offer.

There is much freedom in this type of experience. AND with freedom comes a responsibility to create structure to honor myself & my needs.

THIS is a big area for growth for me and an edge I have been playing at these past months.

Historically, I found myself searching for direction/validation when I don't have a plan or a feeling of inner direction. Because of this, in past relationships I have found myself falling into patterns of codependency.

In doing so, I've given up my agency & power & have opened the door for resentment to creep in (by looking to others for direction, I subconsciously project the responsibility of the outcome of a situation onto them. If it's not as desired, the blame is on them rather than myself).

Let me say - THIS is a recipe for disaster!

I've learned from these past experiences & have committed to my growth in this area & to show up as a leader, first for MYSELF, then for my relationship, & finally for my community. We all have needs & there are many ways to meet them, or not.

We can choose to:

🔥Find healthy ways to satisfy & nourish the needs we have (healthy diet, exercise, connecting w.community, taking care of our mental health).

🔥Ignore our needs (stuffing our feelings or shying away from conflict).

🔥Fall into patterns that may not be as serving for us (leaning into food or other substances to find comfort or ruminating in our thoughts).

If we don't meet & address our needs consciously, they will manifest externally.

Recently, I have brought awareness to my internal “need for direction” which nods to a deeper "need for feeling secure/safe" & have been working with ritual & connection to my spirituality to support me in satiating this need in a way that feels most serving to me, rather than looking externally for someone to “give” me direction.

By taking responsibility for myself first, it allows me to more securely connect with my partner and co-regulate rather than giving up my power & falling into codependency.

This week I've been stepping into self-confidence & abundance mindset with an intentional focus, as I've been on an emotional rollercoaster in this past season of life with many changes abound.

I recently started a graduate program to obtain an M.A. in Professional Counseling, I'm moving out of my current living space at the end of the month, and I took a leave of absence from work to travel throughout Mexico, Central, & South America for the next 2-3 months with my amazing partner.

All of this is exciting & scary! Even though I planned well financially & set my self up for success to take this time for travel/study, these major shifts have come with much uncertainty & triggering of some of my deepest childhood wounding.

Growing up I was taught to prioritize “security" above all else, especially financial security. Thus, when changes come about, there can be fear that arises of the loss of that security & I end up shutting down, mis-communicating, & feeling anxious about “what ifs”. What if I mis-manage my finances, what if I'm judged at work for taking time away, what if my choice to go back to school was the wrong one, what if…

I can feel isolated while also feeling a lack of trust in myself. This in turn, can lead me to comparing myself to others & desiring to be “farther along” on my path than I am. It can be a torturous place if I let it go unchecked.

Thankfully, I have developed practices to be with “what’s so” about my situation & have learned to ground into & take inventory of what I can control & what I cannot.

I've come to learn that my worry doesn’t care WHAT the plan is, but rather that there IS a plan.

And so I make time to journal & be with all of the parts of myself, ensuring them that they are welcome & have a say in the plan.

Having these practices have helped me navigate uncertainty that I encounter in my life & have allowed me to re-attune to my intuitive sense of self & begin to trust myself again.

I am building back my self-confidence and assurance that this life is abundant and happening “for me” rather than “to me”.

Where in your life are you being held back by fear & limiting beliefs or struggling w. scarcity mindset?

This past year has been such a beautiful and expansive year for me.

My word for 2022 was "Celebrate"

Celebrating throughout the course of this past year (the big and the small wins) has been a wonderful practice for me and has lead me to deeper places. Places of self-confidence, self-reflection, and attunement to my intuition and authentic self.

This year, in 2023, I am tuning into "Ritual"

I am creating intentional space for my vision, my emotions & moving them through my body, my relationships and community, activating my voice and manifesting what I want in this life.

As I continue to walk this path I am filled with such gratitude to have such a guide, teacher, and co-creator by my side helping to navigate this adventure. Outside of my own-self, she has been the one who has celebrated me most this past year and supports/will continue to support me to connect into ritual and manifestation this year.

My partner and Love has been a light in my life and as a result of our connection I have found an expansion like non-other I have experienced in my life. She brings out the play and joy I felt as a child, she brings integrity and tenacity - facing the hard conversations with trust and security, and she shares her heart with a fullness of deep love and compassion.

I am excited to step into the unknown of this next year and am moving into 2023 with curiosity, an open heart, and grounded awareness rooted in Ritual.

Warmly,
Josh

BREATHWORK

My first experience of deep holotropic breathwork was POWERFUL!

It was like any experience I have had before. As I laid on my yoga mat, I was immersed in a cacophony of sounds and music as I pushed my edges with quick shallow breaths.

Before long I was drawn deeper into the sensations of my body. I entered an altered and meditative state. My body tingled and I connected into a deep inner self of self and knowing.

The whole experience lasted almost 2 hours and was akin to a strong workout. And after I emerged from my heavy breathing and reconnected with the world, I FELT so ALIVE and REJUVENATED.

I felt a deep gratitude for the container that was provided and for the guidance offered to explore myself and my breath in such a new way.

Coming up on 11/5 Alex ( )and I will be sharing our love for this breathwork by creating and offering the same safely-held container for you!

We are welcoming people of all ages, genders, and experience levels to looking to connect deeper to themselves, their physical body, and to others.

Whether this is your first breathwork session or your seasoned in your practice, this event will create and hold a safe container for you to drop fully into the breathe and step away from the thinking mind.

You will leave the experience feeling more in your body, connected to yourself, to a community of other humans, and energized to go about your day with grounded presence.

Warmly,
Josh + Alex

I had the incredible opportunity of leading & learning alongside a powerful group of men this weekend. My heart is full & I feel a strength & a passion running through me as I arrive home today.

Alex & I hosted our Men’s Embodiment Retreat at a cabin in the woods near Mt. Hood. And throughout the weekend we released old stories that no longer serve us, we brought in new & expansive energy and got clear on each of our purposes in the world. We dove deep into ancestry work, engaged in meditation, deep breathwork, yoga, ecstatic dance & spent time reflecting & journaling.

We played at our edges & had the courage to be truly vulnerable & to trust that the other men in the container would fully witness & hold our experience with love & compassion.

We shared in the weekend experience together as a community of men. Men from their mid-30s to early 70’s, men from various backgrounds and orientations.

We ate together, we laughed, we cried, and we expressed healthy anger.

It was a truly transformative weekend for each man in the group.

Each time I come out of a coaching session, group workshop, or retreat, I always come away with a sense of empowerment and inner knowing that I am living from a place of true authenticity and purpose.

During the weekend, each man was challenged to write a mission statement for their life and purpose.

Mine?

“To build a generation of emotionally empowered men.”

It starts with me.

I chose to show up with authenticity, compassion, & integrity AND I invite you to join me on the journey.

Warmly,
Josh