Fully Expressing Your Weird and Wild

I just returned from a canoeing trip with the wonderful Eddie FitzPatrick, who guided us as artist-in-residence and facilitator with Up the Creek. We spent spacious, nourishing days on the water surrounded by nature, reflection, and creativity.

My intention for the journey was to find the next layer of my voice, to express myself with confidence and courage. To stop shrinking, as I learned to do from a young age, and remember that what I have to say matters. To show up fully as I am, and to find the bravery to bring a podcast into being.

Another intention was to slow down. To practice being instead of over-doing. To row downstream, flowing with what feels aligned, rather than fighting against the current.

I’m remembering that I can be big. I can be weird and wild and fully expressed, just like the little girl I once was, before the world taught me to make myself smaller to fit in.