Hi Body, 2025 (Ep 1)

The speaker shares their experience of feeling stuck while working on projects, realizing the need to move and be active to engage creatively. They emphasize the importance of listening to one's body, being open to different creative expressions, and integrating movement into daily routines for well-being. The message encourages honoring the body's needs, finding ways to activate and play, and embracing mindfulness in daily interactions. The speaker closes by wishing a spooky Halloween and urging listeners to connect with their bodies for self-care and grounding. Hello and welcome back to the High Embody by Gasp. This is a space that is full of movement and exploration and care. This is an on-the-go practice and I am currently moving and swimming in the boardroom of the co-working space that I work in. And one of the things that I will delightfully share with you is that I am actually doing this as a pivot in the practice. I was sitting at work today and working on two pretty big projects, one being a book and the other one being grant applications. And what I was finding was that I was just not able to process the written word today. I was really stuck in that space of trying to sit and to be in the middle and to work through that. And I realized I was listening to music and I was trying to like, not pretend to focus, but trying to be like, I can do this, and it just wasn't available for me in my body. And so in order to say hi to my body, I was switching it back into the podcast to listen to. And then I was like, oh, actually what I need right now is to verbalize what I'm moving through, to sit and talk with my hands, to be active and activated in my body, in that space that we have. And so if there are times when you too, as a creative, are finding yourself kind of glued to that one position or the medium of, okay, it's a writing day, I have to write, and really it's about the external expression of, you know, if that medium isn't working, how do I switch that? And it's funny, if I was at my house, I probably would have been like, okay, it's time to move into a physical activity, into space, and I would have like, done my dishes or taken my dog for a walk, given myself that permission to move my body, to say hi to my body. And so being outside of that environment, it really is getting creative and getting insightful and getting curious, and opening up into those spaces that say, hey, like, this is something that I need, and how do I honor that? And so it reminded me of a podcast series that I was working on a few years back, that is what you're listening to now, called High Body, and it's a low-tech, high-spinning space that allowed me to be in the flow, in the moment, embrace the spontaneity that I really thrive on, and to execute that in a way that holds space for others to honor and recognize that if something isn't working, we have the choice to shift. We have the permission to find our bodies in space, to move them through the world, and if this resonates with you, I am curious what saying hi to your body looks like for you today. I'm curious if you find yourself moving slowly while tying your shoe and watching how the laces intersect and weave as a mindful practice. I'm curious if it is taking extra time to watch that rain on your windowpane kind of fall and chase each other, as perhaps we did as kids. I am curious to know the ways that you integrate your body into your day, not as something that is harmful or destructive to that inner knowing, but that gives it permission to come out, that gives it permission to play and be seen and be activated. As I close this podcast, as slowly as I possibly can, to honor and integrate, to instill a mindfulness in the way that we enter and the way that we exit conversations with ourselves and with our bodies, that we slow transition to support the pace of our well-being as a way of working, and that we honor the moment that we come to ourselves, day in and day out. I'm wishing you a wonderful, spooky day as Halloween nears and the fog rolls in. And as always, I hope that we get to slow enough into our bodies, into the pacing which activates our own care and hugs together, that we continue to say hi to our bodies. Have a great day, and may you know that the feet under you are the feet that will ground and take you to places that you know you need to go. Bye for now, bodies. And as slowly as I possibly can, I will hit the stop record button as we exit out of this space together. Bye for now. .