Radical Mindfulness is not an optional part of health

We are often taught to avoid dark emotions. We push to "let them go" or "think more positively," but these reactive strategies simply entrench them more and more in our bodies.

Instead, I've found that processing and digesting our emotions is much more effective. It's a process that I call Radical Mindfulness, and it is the foundation of the Guided Mindfulness practice that I use with every single client.  

A traumatic experience can literally block important functions in your body and mind. Allowing your body to digest that experience empowers your innate wisdom to:

1. Break that experience down into pieces,
2. Absorb what is nourishing from the experience,
3. S--t out what's no longer needed. :)

Radical Mindfulness is using your mind to feel and be curious about your emotions rather than scared of them. And by allowing yourself to feel, you are allowing your digestive organs to break them down and process them through your body in a way that is exactly like digesting food.

(And for any fellow astrology nerds, there are a lot of factors at play in this process, but it's the Virgo part of you that is doing the processing, digesting, and distributing.)

Radical mindfulness can at first feel foreign and hard, but it is an essential part of joyfully living your life as a human.

As part of my work with clients, we spend time practicing this skill via guided mindfulness meditations. It supercharges the actions of the plants and directly connects you to your own sense of intuition.