Being successful, radiant and feeling sexy sounds amazing -- but it's hard when you feel overwhelmed by life and like you're the least important person in your own life.

Been there!
 

A few years after the birth of my second child I felt zapped, drained, and lost in my life.

I felt like an imposter, unable to balance being a mother, a friend, or excel at work. I was losing my marriage and I wasn't at all happy about my changed body.

I started performing Burlesque to reclaim my sensual power and it worked -- almost.  Though I could portray enticing sexuality on stage, it didn't always come home with me. 

And while it was fun, it was an escape from my challenges, rather than a place to understand and clear them.

Every month I got at least one small cold, or would have an emotional collapse that would send me to my bed in tears and make it hard to even get up in the morning.

I was so stuck in fear and overwhelm that I was disconnected from my feelings and the clear messages my body had been sending to slow down.  

I was prioritizing everyone in my life before myself, but we were all suffering because I was deeply unhappy, avoiding my real problems and distracting myself with too much drinking and escaping and more commitments than anyone could manage well.

But even through this, someone deep inside me, my truest, most loving self, knew that there could be no healing and wholeness without being connected to my emotions. 

I was slowly building a system of tools for myself to become balanced and resilient enough to feel all of my feelings, even the messy ones.  I started letting my shadows dance into the light, and shimmied a little closer to claiming the career and personal vibrance I desired for myself.

This isn't easy in our current patriarchy-dominated world. Especially if you're going it alone or trying to learn from "experts" who act like they have it all figured out.  The truth is that we all struggle to feel comfortable in our skin and sort out how to share ourselves with the world, and that this isn't something we sort out and move on -- it's an ongoing practice of devotion to ourselves.

Our bodies don't lie.  While our minds can get caught up in "shoulds," "what ifs," and expectations from family and society, our bodies always know what is real.  Tuning into our bodies so that we can receive that deep wisdom is how we come to truly know ourselves, and gracefully step into our power.

That is Confidence!  Trusting ourselves so that we can live authentically with compassion for ourselves and others, and no need for apology.  The key is an open connection between your body+heart+mind, and the best way I've found of doing this is through combining MindsetMagick with dance.

Not the sort of dance you see on stage to entertain or entice an audience. But dance where you let it all go, move as your body desires, welcome all the parts of yourself, and celebrate where you are right here, right now, or allow yourself to witness the challenges you're experiencing.  It's a special sort of dance called JourneyDance.

In this dance we tell our story to the dance floor. Release shame, judgement and anxiety, and meet the most nurturing parts of ourselves.  Expand our emotional capacity so that we can be with our feelings and hear the wisdom of our bodies.  We honor our sweet hearts and build our own deep well of resilience, power and love to nourish ourselves, our loved ones and our world.

This collection of Mindset and BodyMagicks is designed to help you develop your own practice of Self Devotion so that you can release anxiety, judgement, and negative self-talk and focus on professional success, mutually supportive relationships and celebrate your power and pleasure.

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These simple tools combined with the power of movement connect you with your feelings and make feeling them more comfortable -- even the "icky" ones.  So you can trust the wisdom of your body, stop getting tangled in your mind and being influenced by people, messages and limitations that don't serve you, and rule your life. 

It's much easier to find your own way of being juicy and sexy when you're connected to your whole self!

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This is a wonderful precursor or support for Burlesque -- it's a lot of the core confidence practices I would have loved before performing -- and perfect if you never want to touch a toe on stage.