When was the last time that you felt truly, fully alive? Not productive, not busy, not fine, but alive.

Like every cell in your body was awake and you were completely inside your own life instead of rushing through it.

If you have to think about it, this episode is for you. For almost two decades, I have chosen a word of the year. It's not a

resolution. It's not a goal. It's a single word that becomes the lens for how I want to live,

the kind of energy I want to embody. And this year, the word didn't just choose me. It basically

grabbed me by the shoulders and was like, Tanya, wake up.

The word vivant. It's French. It means alive and not the kind of I have a pulse kind of alive,

but the kind of alive where you really taste your Wednesday morning coffee or you dance like

no one's watching or when you kiss your lover and you don't want

that moment to end. You know what I'm talking about. Well, there's a quote by Rumi that I keep

coming back to in my life. And I remember reading it for the first time and it stopped me in my tracks.

It reads, with passion,, with passion make love,

with passion eat and shrink and dance and play. Why look like a dead fish in this ocean of God?

I mean, why? Why are we walking around like dead fish? We've been given this extraordinary, unrepeatable life,

and yet so many of us are just going through the motions of it.

We are sleepwalking through our own story.

Well, for me, Vivant is my refusal to do that.

So pull up a chair, pour yourself something beautiful,

because that's what we're talking about today,

what it actually means to be a fully alive woman and the six shifts that change everything.

Let's dive in.

Welcome to the School of Self Image, where our motto is simple.

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