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MAKE YOUR PRACTICE BULLSH*T PROOF

Weds Feb 5th // 8 - 9 pm ET 

(Yes, the date moved by a week!)

I'm super excited to share this with you all; I've been working really hard on it. :)

Did you know that there is a punctuation mark called the "interrobang" which is basically "?!" put together? I didn't know either but now we both know.

Representative Ayanna Pressley recently revealed that she is bald (from alopecia) in this beautiful and emotional video for The Root. I was hopping in my seat and snapping my fingers when she said: 

"I'm not here just to occupy space, I'm here to create it."

Visibility matters. It matters when we fully occupy space as who we are; it gives permission to others to do the same. May we all feel safe enough to do that.

I watched Troop Zero, the new movie on Amazon, because it has both Viola Davis and Allison Janney in it and I thought it was going to be kind of Troop Beverly Hills-ish, all of which I am fully here for.

But it turns out that it is a freaking adorable movie about a badass young girl (keep your eye on this Mckenna Grace actor, she was fantastic) and her attempts to contact the aliens. Forget that it sounds weird; it is so good. Watch it, you will be so glad you did!

As much as I like to think of myself as an ally for my trans, non-binary, and genderqueer friends, I recently realized that I have never read a book with a protagonist that identifies as such. Big miss on my part!

To begin to fix this, I am currently reading Nevada, which has been called a quintessential coming-of-age novel and features Maria, a transgender woman whose struggles are both hyper-specific and universally relatable.

My fave line so far:

"...but like most defense mechanisms, it wasn’t conscious, and like most defense mechanisms, it became a pattern you weren’t aware of, and then, like most defense mechanisms, at some point it stopped making your life easier and started making your life harder."

👏🏽👏🏽

I did an interview with a UK magazine this week (I'll share the link when it comes out) and I was giving practical tips for more mindful use of technology. The most helpful thing is to intentionally create friction between you and the tech you are trying to create space from.

Here are some ways to do that:

• Delete social media apps (you can give yourself permission to use them on the computer, but you'll be much less tempted)
• Bury addictive apps several pages into a folder–which will give you a hot second to consider why you're using them
• Put your phone into B+W mode. So boring! In a good way.
• And of course, turn off all notifications not from a human being in real time. :) 

BTW we did the "skull hug" practice a lot in our retreat; it's a great calming technique, and a fan favorite. If you missed it in the last newsletter, you can check it out here. It's so good.

There is a #glowup joke in here somewhere: these tiny fish have learned how to "steal" bioluminescence by eating even tinier shrimp that evolved the ability to glow. It used to be thought that this couldn't happen because an animal's stomach would digest the glow proteins, but this fish evolved something called "a kleptoprotein" that lets the glow stay intact. Ha ha I am NOT making this up! Go nature.

Researchers of the Mount Vesuvius eruption just figured out that what seemed like glass inside the skulls of skeletons was.... brain glass, which was somehow made by the flash heat from the eruption. (This is another thing that wasn't thought possible. Mama Nature just isn't concerned with our limited ideas, is she?)

Speaking of, you know, us catching up to the natural world, we are finally starting to understand which brain cells connect the brain to the body. Some are called microglial cells and we have so much more to learn about them. But let's be clear: there is no mind-body connection because there is no difference. Kk? :)