Put away your computer, tablet or phone and opt for a journal and pen instead. After a few cycles of breath, scan your inner landscape and repeat this rhythm until you feel a sense of calm and ease. Close your eyes, unclench your jaw, relax your shoulders and begin to slowly inhale and exhale in a fluid movement that feels free and expansive. Sit up tall, place one hand on your chest, the other resting on your soft belly. A calm, unhurried mind is a fertile ground for reflection, which can often open our writing to a deeper, more intentional space.įind a comfortable seat that allows you to feel both connected and grounded. Use your breath as a vehicle to bring yourself to a state of restful awareness.

Use these simple exercises as guides to pause, turn inward, and explore what you want to take with you into 2019, and what you choose to leave behind. In order to create a clear path to where we want to go, we must take the time to stop and reflect on where we are and where we have been. It is only natural to feel the energy of both a push and pull, as we bid farewell to what has been, and step forward into the hope and possibility of tomorrow. sitting on the kitchen floor with the people who know you best, in-love spaces, gently reminding you that you are never alone.The end of the year can often leave us feeling torn between two worlds.

Too, it is the top of the mountain spaces, the light rising through the curtain spaces, the 2 a.m. It is the lonely spaces, the low-lit spaces, the dark corners, and the rooms we don't often go. And so, her offering is the words unsaid, in the spaces we need it most. And how you choose to share, that is your heart-work. The lineage of women before her have always said to her in no uncertain terms that the time to be brave, is now. In this has grown a truth she could no longer write just in the margins, as a maybe, or a sometime, but rather as air, as water, as basic survival. She began to write these words, those spaces, onto paper. Where others may hear the conversation by way of what was said next, Danielle has always heard the space between, and all the words left unsaid. In their cadence and their rhythm, in the way they can move a moment forward, or pull a moment to a slow stop. Your breath can rest here.' both softĬan coexist and still be powerful About the Author: The everyday moments, and the extraordinary moments, have always made the most sense to Danielle in words.

Focusing on inspiration, Doby's poetry invites its reader to 'Come as you are. Positive and powerful, I Am Her Tribe is a collection of poetry drawing on the viral Instagram handle and online hashtag that serves to create moments of connection through empowerment and storytelling. #IAmHerTribe creator Danielle Doby shares her poetry for the first time in a collection long anticipated by her followers.

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