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Living Unmuted Insider Weekly Guidance to Author Your Life through Self-trust March 3, 2026|Issue Archive Hey friend, My son has been in myofascial therapy for months. One instruction kept repeating: “Tongue up. Jaw relaxed.” I’ve dealt with chronic jaw tension for years — clenching, bracing, waking up tight. In fact, I have a track record of even breaking my teeth and crowns from night grinding. So I tried it. Tongue resting at the roof of the mouth.Just behind (not touching) the front...

Living Unmuted Insider Weekly Guidance to Author Your Life through Self-trust February 25, 2026|Issue Archive Hey friend, For over a year, I’ve been quietly building something. It started when I kept hearing about what some call a “miracle drug”: ketamine.Maybe you’ve heard of it. I’ve actually been on nasal ketamine myself, and what fascinated me wasn’t just the experience — it was the window of change it seemed to open. That’s what got me obsessed with figuring out: could a similar state be...

Living Unmuted Insider Weekly Guidance to Author Your Life through Self-trust February 17, 2026|Issue Archive Hey friend, There was a season of my life where a single sock could emotionally destabilize me. I’d walk down the hallway and there it was. Just… there. Alone. Unclaimed. Living its best life on the floor. And somehow, that sock felt like a personal attack. Not because I wore it.Not because I dropped it.But because if I didn’t pick it up… it was going to live there indefinitely. Like...

Living Unmuted Insider Weekly Guidance to Author Your Life through Self-trust February 10, 2026|Issue Archive Hey friend, I once found myself sitting on the bathroom floor with the shower running, crying so hard I couldn’t catch my breath. And in the middle of it, a thought crossed my mind that surprised me by how real it felt: Can you die from crying? Not as a metaphor.I genuinely wondered if my body could hold that much emotion. But here’s what I didn’t understand at the time. It doesn’t...

Living Unmuted Insider Weekly Guidance to Author Your Life through Self-trust February 2, 2026|Issue Archive Hi friend, I wanted to take a moment to let you know about an exciting and intentional shift happening with Living Unmuted Insider. Moving forward, this newsletter will only arrive once a week. I’m making this change because I want to give you the best value possible — not more noise, not more emails, but something you can actually sit with, come back to, and use. Here’s what you can...

Living Unmuted Insider Real stories. Real advice. Hey friend, The last couple weeks have been difficult for me. I have lived with chronic pain and inflammation for a long time, and I have learned how to move through it.Adjust. Adapt. Keep going. This injury was different. Not because I ignored signs, but because for the first time, I could not push past them. And what surprised me most was not just the limitation.It was the guilt. Guilt for not being able to pick up my toddler.Guilt for...

Living Unmuted Insider Real stories. Real advice. When even your favorite things feel like too much Hey friend, There are days when you know what usually helps.You have the tools.You have the practices. And still, nothing feels reachable. Even the things you love.Even the things that usually bring comfort. If today is one of those days, I want you to hear this clearly: There is nothing wrong with you. Sometimes the nervous system isn’t asking for action.It’s asking for less. Less effort.Less...

Living Unmuted Insider Real stories. Real advice. Hey friend, There was a long stretch of my life where I believed healing was something I had to do quietly. Independently.Privately.Without needing anyone. Not because I didn’t want supportbut because my body learned early that relying on myself was safer. And for a long timethat worked. What I didn’t understand back then is that survival skills don’t disappear just because the danger is gone.They stay.They protect.They keep us moving forward...

Living Unmuted Insider Real stories. Real advice. When you’re not okay Hey beautiful friend, Some days don’t need a plan.They don’t need answers or clarity or momentum. Some days you’re just… not okay. And the hardest part is that we’ve been taught that not being okay is something to fix or power through instead of something to meet with care. But here’s what I believe matters most on hard days: Allow yourself to feel the hard with compassion, without sitting alone in the dark with it....

Living Unmuted Insider Real stories. Real advice. Hey friend, There’s a quiet gap between knowing what to do… and being able to do it consistently. Most of the world tells us that gap is about discipline.Willpower.Trying harder. But if that were true, change would be simple. And it’s not. The problem isn’t effort. It’s craving. Here’s a story I think about often. Febreze is now a billion-dollar brand.But when it first launched, it almost failed. It was marketed as a miracle solution for bad...