I'm Jocelyn K. Gly, and this is Hurry Slowly, a podcast about personal and collective transformation.

Just a quick note about formatting as we get started. I thought that I would be bringing you an interview today, but because of a scheduling hiccup, I have

reshuffled the episodes. So today, I have another short personal reflection for you. And then next

month, in February, I'll be back with an in-depth interview with one of my favorite thinkers and

speakers, someone whose work I have admired for a very long time.

I also want to let you know that I have decided to reopen my Hi-Fi course for the new year.

Hi-Fi is an immersive six-week journey that's all about reconnecting with your body,

opening your heart, and bringing your intuition online.

It's a community-minded program that is both practical and spiritual.

I know that practical and spiritual are two words you don't hear together very often, but it's true.

You can learn all about it at hi-fi-hifuncourse.com, or you can just stay tuned until the end of this episode,

where I'm going to share a little bit more about the course and about how it unfolds.

Now, let's go ahead and get into it.

As we move deeper into our exploration of this season's theme of coming home, I want to talk about the

idea of honoring yourself. And maybe we can start simply by defining the word, honor.

Oxford Languages says that it means to regard with great respect or to fulfill or keep an agreement.

So in this context, we are talking about regarding yourself with respect or fulfilling an agreement with yourself.

To me, this is a really fundamental part of feeling at home with yourself,

perhaps the most fundamental aspect of feeling at home.

And it is also one of the most difficult.

And one of the reasons that it's so difficult is because we live in a culture that is deeply, deeply oriented towards the external.

We are taught that when we wish to gather information, we should look outward rather than inward.

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