In Flow & Free Podcast

Here we are, after taking this time off to uplift our sense of well-being and tendin’ to things in need of tendin’. And so we are utilizing this month to examine just that…are we well-beings…being well? We hear the word “wellness” plastered on everything these days, usually referring to this emotional place or space we’re meant to get to. Hey Briana, are you following your gimmicky ass 3 steps to wellness plan? Hey V, did you journal every second of your wellness journey today?

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We eat this wellness shit up, consuming all the things to supplement our well-being journey, with an expectation that wellness is some safe and stable destination that we are meant to settle into. Maybe it's the journey...

Recently well-being, at least for me, has been a moment-by-moment choosing of myself as honestly and compassionately as I can. It’s a listening to my needs, allowing my path to unfold before me without the language of something being wrong navigating my choices. It’s showing up like my most present self…without controlling or “trying” to fix anything in the "me" that is presently being here, now. It’s allowing the stories I spit up to rest when rest is what I need or maybe it looks like me being willing to allow the pain and pressure to build, taking me to whatever emotion or experience awaits me. I am blessed to have built a safe community of support around me so that if I fall in too deep, I know someone is willing to jump in to grant me their spaciousness until I reach the shore. 

Maybe it's simply time... the wandering we will do for a lifetime, as we develop ourselves through all the endless alchemical shifts and fiery aches, slowly forging the magic that is us and within us as collective beings. 

It's been a minute yall, and we're back from an enriching podcast hiatus to offer you a mini audio series we call "Sitting With Intention." These are lil gems and nuggets of inspiration and intention that have been living through us lately. These intentions stir up all the feels and explorations of what's been happening in Briana and Vanessa's lives. We share, we question, and challenge how we navigate various aspects and facets of what it truly means to learn how to live, as we are and as we can be. 

This week's Intention is a personal share on Freedom from Briana Fails. All throughout July, Vanessa and Briana have been exploring the movements of freedom, and often lack of, in their relationships and within themselves. This share is a minute snapshot of Briana's experiences, as she reflects on what freedom feels and looks like and how this freedom, and all its movements, are shifting and shaping her own life, flowing far beyond her own nourishment. 

Tune into more lil gems with The In Flow & Free Podcast. 

To join us at our online donation-based meditation, yoga, and communal sharing this Sunday (July 25, 2021) beginning at 9:30am CST.