Hello, and welcome back to the Self Healer Soundboard. This week's episode came by request

from one of our members, actually one of our Self Healer Circle members, through a comment

on Instagram. So every now and then we recirculate a post on the cocoon stage of healing.

And this member asked if we could do an episode expanding on this, which we thought was

perfectly aligned and really divinely timed as we all consistently go in and out of this

metamorphosis, if you will, or shapes shifting and cocoon phase. I think a really great place

for us then to start is to talk a bit about what we mean when we say this cocoon phase. And

I think probably a lot of you listening, when we hear cocoon, we think of butterfly. And of course,

the cocoon phase is what happens before we emerge as this new being. And in our healing journey,

it's very much the same. For a lot of us, it's the period of time and to speak to your point,

Jenna, for some of us, it might be days, weeks, we might revisit it, but it's the period of time

where we're turning inward. And for some of us, that means taking distance from our relationships,

taking essentially space to begin to explore us, our ones, our needs, our thoughts, our feelings,

our life in a new way. So those of you who are thinking of an actual cocoon is a really great

way to think about it. Because again, it's that process of going inward to then at some point

down the line re-emerge as a new different change transform being in some way. I personally really

love the cocoon stage. I definitely feel in so many ways I'm in that right now, which to me really

just feels like an immersion of this safe sacred space where my main focus and priority is an

intentional connection to me and to exploring deeper layers of me. So while you can think of that

cocoon that then emerges a butterfly, what is a cocoon? It's this tightly wrapped, really safe space.

And for anyone else who loves being in like forts or tents or these cozy little nooks,

I'm a big fan of that. It actually, I can feel it in my nervous system and in my physical body when

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