On today's episode of the podcast, I'm talking to you from the south of Spain where I am having a lovely little vacation enjoying some sunlight.

I had a big revelation this week about art and about how there's nothing more soothing to our nervous

systems than just being our creative selves and being with our art without having to produce or perform.

So it's a podcast really diving in to our creative spirits and giving ourselves some space to feel.

The podcast begins with a 15 minute meditation, a little check-in for your

heart and I really hope you enjoy that too. Let's jump in.

Okay, my friends, hello, welcome back to the show.

How are you? How is your heart today? How are you doing? I hope you're feeling really good. We are getting into February now, which just feels wild and crazy.

Time is flying.

I hope you've had the chance in the past week to really slow down to place your hand on your heart and check in with yourself.

If you haven't had the chance or if you feel like life is moving so quickly, everything is just spinning all around you.

I'm going to give you a little opportunity for a check-in in just a second.

I have to preface this show just by saying I am in Spain right now and I'm sitting on the floor at the bedroom of this apartment here where we're saying and it's kind of echoy. It's just a big empty bedroom and I've done my best. I've just surrounded myself with a duvet and a bunch of pillows and stuff, but if it's a little bit echoy I apologize it's the best I can do

and I just put bear down in the other room. Let's see how long he sleeps I just feel so grateful that he's sleeping at all and that I get to sit here and record from Spain, which is so magical and amazing.

But I woke up this morning just feeling a longing to close my eyes and take some time to really tune in and feel.

I feel like this whole year, so far, 2024 has passed by really fast and I have that feeling often more more often than normal

where almost like I feel like I can't really keep up with the events of the world

I can't keep up with a pace in which how everything seems to be moving right now and how there's so much heartache to take in there's so much pain happening all around just on the grand large scale of this earth.

And I'm feeling that in a lot of different ways.

I'm feeling that as I tune in to the

situation happening in Gaza right now. I feel that as I tune in to nature. I feel it every time I open up my news app, you know, I feel it. I know many of you feel it too.

So I just, this morning I just had that feeling of like oh I wish I had

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