This is the art of equanimity because as somebody who feels as though they were born passionate

and intense and a little bit off-centered. This is how I maintain my center while also keeping my

fire, my spice, my bad bitch self. Let's get into it. What is up guys and welcome back to my garden. I'm Kayla Rose and this is Skinny Dipping

the podcast. If you're new here, hey, comment where you're listening from or if you're

returning. Also comment just like where you're tuning in from. I'm so grateful for this community

of literally over 200,000 of you, like with the podcast and then over like 300,000 across

social media platforms. I can't even, I can't even get into it. I'm so fucking grateful. And I really

wanted to talk about how to stay centered in struggle, especially if you're not somebody who is

level-headed. I feel like when I was looking into ideologies in the past and in research of this current

episode, I was like, wow, I feel like so much of the advice out there is to have this very

centered approach to life, equanimity, right? And I really wanted to dissect it and be like,

what does this look like for somebody like me? What does this look like for somebody who,

like, honestly, to quote my mom, she's like, you came out of the womb, like dancing and singing.

She was like, my hips literally opened apart. Like, you just came out into the world. Like, I feel like

I was born with a lot of fire, a lot of power, a lot of intensity. And if you're somebody like that,

but you still want to maintain a centered, grounded point of view, I wanted to get into that topic and just kind of

be like, how do we actually fucking do that, you know, as somebody who maybe doesn't relate to a more

level-headed approach to life. Like, I actually enjoy the passion, the intensity, the extremes,

feeling a lot of joy and then also experiencing a lot of grief. Like, life is fucking full

spectrum. And I actually love that about life, even though it fucking sucks sometimes. I actually

really do love that part about life. And I don't want to compromise that by becoming this like kind of moderate type of person,

but I still want peace.

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