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Certainty From the Inside Out
We can use the body to find certainty in our choices. It is easy to stay in our heads when considering the future: looping through analysis, comparing options, and waiting for clarity to arrive in our thoughts. We debate the future, revisit the past, and search for a "right" answer through thinking alone. Uncertainty is part of being human. It creates resistance in the body, and we often rush to escape it through decisions or by seeking external validation. But uncertainty is
Nicolette Martinez
Nov 123 min read
The Body Knows First
Many of us have lived in automated states for a long time, which means when we experience life, we often don't know how we are feeling consciously. We are focused on the story, not the felt sense. The story lives in the mind. The body shows the actual reaction. Naming our feelings helps move us out of the story. At first, this is typically practiced after the experience, but as we move into a space where we want to practice it in real time — especially during big emotions — w
Nicolette Martinez
Nov 123 min read
When Nothing Lights You Up
When we’re in a downswing of life, it’s common to feel that nothing lights us up. We have nothing that brings us joy and nothing to be...
Nicolette Martinez
Sep 47 min read
Finding Purpose From Actions & Goals in Expansion
Purpose has become such a saturated word that carries so much density from our social conditioning. Much of the density is based in lack....
Nicolette Martinez
Sep 46 min read
Beyond Willpower: Why Purpose and Choice Create Real Change
We accepted the idea that willpower is the key to self-control. Push harder, resist more, hold out longer. If you can just resist long...
Nicolette Martinez
Sep 16 min read
Loosening The Grip on Who You Think You Are
Have you ever noticed how quickly we define ourselves? I'm a parent. I am an expert. I am a failure. I'm the strong one. I'm not...
Nicolette Martinez
Aug 164 min read
You’re Always Manifesting: Why Your Inner State Shapes What You Create
One of the biggest misconceptions about manifestation is that it’s something we turn on and off, like we either “have it” or we don’t....
Nicolette Martinez
Aug 165 min read
Living In Truth & Alignment - Who Are You, Really?
In a world that rewards speed and conformity, it's easy to live by borrowed truths without realizing it. Truth and alignment slow that...
Nicolette Martinez
Aug 168 min read
What's Mine is Not Yours - Finding Our Own Energy
The ability to identify your own energy is one of the most powerful things you can do. Not just occasionally, like in meditation or...
Nicolette Martinez
Aug 95 min read
What is Our 'Energy', Really?
Most of us know what it's like to walk into a room and feel the mood without anyone saying a word. We may comment on a place having weird...
Nicolette Martinez
Aug 95 min read
Emotional Integration: What It Feels like & How It Happens
Grounding and releasing are essential parts of emotional healing. At first, the emotions can feel really intense. Come back to the...
Nicolette Martinez
Jul 154 min read
Emotional Clinging: Why We Hold On and How To Let Go
Clinging to emotions isn't always loud or dramatic. More often, it's subtle - wired into our bodies and shaped by the ways we've learned...
Nicolette Martinez
Jul 155 min read
Moving Through Emotions: Releasing - Pt. 2
Grounding emotions is the first step. But feeling them isn't always enough. Lingering, unreleased emotions quietly mold our thoughts,...
Nicolette Martinez
Jul 153 min read
Moving Through Emotions: Grounding - Pt. 1
Emotions affect our nervous system. They cause our bodies to come online and typically activate our survival mode. Our emotions don't...
Nicolette Martinez
Jul 154 min read
Look Up To The Light
When we see darkness, we are not meant to look down on it but instead we must look up to the light. Light is our conscious awareness -...
Nicolette Martinez
Jun 205 min read
The Capacity to Choose
Change is not for everyone. We might hear in our own heads "it's a choice" that we keep choosing. So can't others? It's truly not a...
Nicolette Martinez
Jun 203 min read
Diamonds Covered In Mud
The foundation of this work is built on the fact that: Humans enter the world fundamentally good. Harm happens when we lose our...
Nicolette Martinez
Jun 204 min read
Beyond Good & Bad - Dropping the Labels
One of the biggest limitations we face as individuals and a society is labeling things as "good" or "bad". Things aren't truly "good" or...
Nicolette Martinez
Jun 165 min read
How To Slow Down Time By Default With Consciousness
Where does the time go? Time flies whether you're having fun or not. And time is speeding up as we get older, as the children grow up...
Nicolette Martinez
Jun 65 min read
Building Consciousness in the Everyday
It often takes loss, disruption, or a life shift to wake us up. But even then, most people fall back into autopilot. Into...
Nicolette Martinez
Jun 45 min read
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