When the world feels loud, start here.

When the world feels loud, start here.

As I was trying to think of something semi-interesting or valuable to share with you this week, given everything happening in the world, I thought of a question that had come up a lot with my clients lately. 

How do we stay discerning where we put our time, energy, and attention?

Three practices came up. 

✨ Centering. 💛 Compassion. 🎨 Creativity.

Once I started writing, I realized I had a lot to say about each practice, so I decided to break it into a couple of emails.

Today, I’m starting with Centering.

There is so much that distracts us and pulls our attention right now. And for those who feel deeply, we aren’t just absorbing information, we’re also absorbing emotion. It’s a lot. 

Earlier this week, I saw a FB post from someone I’d done business with years ago. It was a meme—political, yes—but what upset me was how harsh it felt. It seemed to justify the suffering of others.  I carried that post and my judgment of her for posting it around with me for HOURS! I began imagining what I could say to point out her cruelty, imagining her business suffering from her lack of empathy. I also imagined blocking her and deleting her contact. 

And then I realized… I was losing my center along with my power and peace. 

That moment became a pause point.🧘🏻‍♀️

Before I let a post (or my reaction to it ) define my day, I had to come back to myself. To re-center. 

Centering isn’t about pretending the world is fine.
It’s not about apathy or disconnecting.

It’s about returning to yourself before reacting to everything else.

It’s pausing long enough to ask:

What am I feeling in my body right now?

What’s really weighing on my mind?

What am I believing right now? 

What actually matters to me?

When we start our days on our phones or reacting to the world, we deviate from our center and even sacrifice some of our energy and focus. 

Some days, centering looks like journaling to clear my head.

Other days, it’s a silent walk by the lake or gentle stretching. Sometimes, I remember to breathe with my diaphragm and anchor myself through my pelvis and sitz bones to ground myself. (My mentor Janice Rous taught me that). These are some things that are always available to me to help me return to myself. 

The more I practice, the easier it is to catch myself when I’m spiraling, scrolling, or spinning out and gently return to center. 

Centering isn’t a retreating —it’s a reclaiming and a reconnecting.

Reclaiming our attention, energy, power, and essence.

Reconnecting to our values, intuitive guidance, and what matters most. 

It’s how we move through the world with clarity, integrity, and the capacity to choose something better than reactivity.

Explore this for yourself. 

• When and why do you lose your center? 
• What supports you in coming back to yourself? 
• What does being centered feel like in your body, mind, and choices? 

Experiment with centering yourself before you allow the rest of the world in to influence what you are thinking, feeling, and being.  Get to know where you are first. 

How do you stay centered? Send me a DM and let me know.  

I’ll be back next week, and we’ll talk about compassion in a harsh world.💌