Mothering Ourselves Mindfully

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107. REWIRE questions answered

107. REWIRE questions answered4 days ago22 min

Registration for REWIRE closes October 15th, so this is the last episode before the doors close. I’m answering the questions that are probably running through your mind. What does the program actually involve? How is it different from all the therapy and personal growth work you’ve already done? Can you really change a lifelong pattern in seven weeks? How much time will it take? And what are these therapy balls I’m sending you? I’m also asking you to get honest about what’s behind your “maybe later.” Is it a clear, grounded “not right now,” or is it the familiar pattern of putting yourself at the bottom of the list?

Key Points

What REWIRE involves: seven live calls (or replays), a welcome gift of Yoga Tune Up therapy balls, and a community space where the real work happensThe “Life Lab”: REWIRE isn’t one more thing to add to your plate. You bring what we’re learning into the life you’re already livingWhy every share in the community space helps someone else, and how I bring common themes from there into our live callsHow REWIRE is different if you’ve already done a lot of therapy or personal growth: insight alone doesn’t change how you feel, and this is where psychology, mindfulness, self-compassion, parts work, nervous system healing and yoga come togetherWhy the goal isn’t to “fix” yourself or switch a pattern off for good. These patterns started as survival strategies for a reasonWhat seven weeks actually gives you: working with one pattern in the body, in real time, plus a process you can keep using long after we finishGetting curious about the word “justify”: the rules behind the curtain about money, worth, and what counts as necessary versus indulgentChoosing the “right” pattern to bring (spoiler: there’s no wrong one, and the fear of choosing wrong is a pattern too)Why this work has everything and nothing to do with parenting. Changing what’s happening in you changes what your kids experience with youThe honest truth about time and effort: you can’t get strong if you don’t lift the weightWhy I stopped giving unlimited replay access (and why programs that take access away are the only ones I’ve ever finished)My path from Bikram to Vinyasa to therapy balls, and why the balls gave me a way into my body that movement couldn’t

Quotes

“It’s living your life that is what you need to do during these seven weeks.”

“Every single time you share, it benefits someone else.”

“Spoiler alert: you don’t actually want to completely turn those patterns off. They devel