Hello beloved listeners, this is Adrienne, and oh 2020 is at our backs and out ahead of

us is 2021, 2022, 2023, and the rest of the years of our lives.

And we made it through something. And I feel very aware that not everyone made it. I'm

sure that everyone has their people, that they are grieving. Autumn and I are grieving

our cousin, Barry Joe, who passed away about a week and a half ago. And we know of so many

people who have lost loved ones both to COVID and to a million other things this year. The

grief is overwhelming and the panic can be overwhelming. The fear can be overwhelming.

There's so many huge emotions and that's not going to stop heading into the new year. We create

our relationships with time. We imbue them with meaning and then we decide which self we're

going to bring to each one. So I wanted to offer this practice to you. It is a practice that I

learned in semantics from generative semantics. Spent a condo wala, my teacher, and so many others.

Literally generative semantics is thick with teachers and I've been grateful to learn from so many

of them. And so many, many, many people know this practice and have offered it in different ways.

And I just wanted to offer it to you all to join me in centering.

I sinner in me so I can sinner in me.

Your center is a place that lives in you and you know when you have landed there and you know

when you're operating from that place versus when you're operating from a place that is much more

reactive and in control of others. A center is a place that you can return to within yourself

over and over and over again. And the more you practice centering, returning to yourself

when you're not activated, when you're not in crisis, when it's not a hyper you know distracting

activating moment, the more central be available to you when those pressures do come.

It's really for me a practice of intentional adaptation, a way that I can say no matter what change

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