Come Home to Yourself: A Centering Practice To Help You Return & Live In Your Body
You already know this… life is fast-moving, and often, not in the direction you choose. Your days are filled with problem-solving, managing demands, and meeting deadlines. Granted, you accomplish a lot. However, there’s a downside: it keeps you living in your head. And when that happens, you can stay stuck in reactive mode, responding on autopilot, leaving little time to check in with yourself. As a result, and I’ve seen this in my clients so many times, the quiet wisdom in your body is unheard. So this is an invitation to come home to yourself, to find your way back to the subtle signals your body has been offering.
Many high-achieving women spend enormous amounts of energy caring for everyone and everything around them while quietly starving themselves of the very things that help them feel grounded, connected, and alive. We learn to survive on emotional depletion. But we can’t do that for long. 
For a long time, I treated my body like something that needed to keep up with my life. Like many highly-motivated women, I pushed through exhaustion, ignored stress signals, skipped meals when I was busy, and reached for whatever was quick and comforting when my energy crashed. I told myself I was “fine” because I was functioning. Productive. Capable. Getting things done. But I have to admit I wasn’t experiencing optimal health and well-being.
Hardworking. Focused. Clawing your way to the top. Breaking ceilings. Fighting for your place in the sun. This is how success is often defined for women. Everything else? A distraction. There’s no time for anything but what matters. And certainly no time for something as frivolous as fun. But what if that’s exactly where we’ve misunderstood something essential? What if delight is not a distraction from your power, but a vital part of it?
Too often, we find ourselves in a situation where our “go along to get along” part takes over before we’re even aware of it. For example, Leigh noticed this happening halfway through a meeting.