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#WonderPlayOfTheDay: no change given. . . I said

#WonderPlayOfTheDay: no change given.
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I said to a client today: "you can think about something 100x a day, but the difference is made in the DOING." Even if circumstances change, your own change/growth/transformation is not a given.
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I have walked past these @chicagocta things hundreds of times and never thought of it this way till today. I love being inspired by my clients.
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I'm re-crafting visions for myself this week...stay tuned!
What change are you creating lately?
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@wrightlivingchicago #wrightliving

#WonderPlayOfTheDay: moving. . . Only a few weeks

#WonderPlayOfTheDay: moving.
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Only a few weeks left of this back porch...the family is moving soon! Lots of feelings about it, which is just right.
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#Repost @elizabethtuazon
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Please meet my newest exciting piece from the @twistedmovement collection by @thenadia33...!!! So inspired by the evening gorgeousness, I did a photo shoot with my dang self on our back porch.
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This was purchased with my profit disbursement from Q3. If you're not using the #profitfirst
system, I recommend it! Quarterly treats are so, so nice.
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Also, I just wore this outfit to take out the recycling and thought...I haven't been to Burning Man (yet...), but if/when I did go, I'd consider wearing something like this. Featuring @mr.ladysmith 's old boots 👢
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#twistedmovement #notsunday #stillbumday #notaburner #yet #somedaymaybe

#WonderPlayOfTheDay: messes! . . One of my dear sw

#WonderPlayOfTheDay: messes!
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One of my dear sweet housemates, @placeodiscovery, decided to snap a candid photo of me yesterday - the day I was starting my Master's in Transformational Coaching and Leadership at @wrightgradu.
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Please witness me sitting at my daytime bed-desk, with a napping dog, as I am journaling...a pile of clean but unfolded laundry and a mess of untidy things on the floor, in-frame.
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The messes I've been making have been inspired by the Assignment way of living at @wrightlivingchicago. I'm surely breaking the rules of my family of origin by making my mess visible, not hiding it. "Don't be messy...and if you are, don't let anyone know."
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Whelp, there are a lot of messes in my life. And I'm sharing this one. One of the things I'm learning, though, is that my messes (physical and otherwise) aren't an indictment of who I am as a person. Sometimes if I'm dropping a ball here and there, then perhaps instead of beating myself up as a failure, maybe I can practice celebrating that I'm living my life on a growing edge, reveling in what I'm learning and choosing. I can acknowledge that part of my tendency toward messiness might be a rebellion against my family rule and reflect on why that is...or maybe it's based in a limiting belief that I don't matter enough to myself yet to fully empower a clean and beautiful space. (Did one of those things resonate more with YOU? There may be something for you there!)

...In any event, there are ripe opportunities to reflect in any moment, and they are all gifts.
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#messes

#WonderPlayOfTheDay: evening moving meditation . .

#WonderPlayOfTheDay: evening moving meditation
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After all, at the end of the day, it's my body I'm living in.
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#getliquid @liquidmotionct #messes #wrightliving

#WonderPlayOfTheDay: new beginnings! . . My welcom

#WonderPlayOfTheDay: new beginnings!
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My welcome/orientation care package + swag bag arrived today from @wrightgradu !! I'm starting my Master's in Transformational Coaching & Leadership THIS WEEK!
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I've been so inspired by the learning and growing I've been doing with @wrightlivingchicago and the work that I've been doing with my coaching clients that I've declared my next level commitment to myself and my growth. Feeling fear and joy!!Diving in deep!!
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If you want to learn more about the foundation, I'm speaking at an event at 6pm CT TOMORROW (Wed 10/28). Let me know!!
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(Thursday salon is still happening; I'm simply not hosting because I'll be in class. But there are folks who will be creating a beautiful space, and I'd love for you to meet them. Join at wonderplaygrow.com/salon 😊🎶🍁🍂)
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#wrightliving

#WonderPlayOfTheDay - SPACE. #Repost @elizabethtu

#WonderPlayOfTheDay - SPACE.

#Repost @elizabethtuazon
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Reflecting on Space...on behalf of @wrightlivingchicago #sofia...

In the style of @liquidmotionct...

Dancing with and for myself on my anniversary with @mr.ladysmith...

And promoting an ART AUCTION! Check out the link at @chicagoarthaus to score some wicked new pieces THIS SATURDAY.

#woman #space #getliquid #floorwork

#WonderPlayOfTheDay - collaborative shapes! . . Wi

#WonderPlayOfTheDay - collaborative shapes!
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With this ring...(with this ring...)
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...I bring my leg closer to my head, hands, and back.
...I celebrate what my body can do, and also what feels hard.
...I give thanks for the assistance and partnership I have on the journey.
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More floorwork with a @liquidmotionct training this weekend...!!! And join me on Friday for more Friday Flex @2:45pmCT. Who's coming??
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#pilates #yoga #contortion #flexibility #pilatesinstructor #pilatesring @deos_pilates #liquidmotion #floorwork @mr.ladysmith @deosluciddream

Featuring the early release of the FRESH NEW BOOK

Featuring the early release of the FRESH NEW BOOK from my friend, coach, colleague, and mentor, @megantaylormorrison - Dance Adventures!! Check her out at @dancetravelabroad! #danceadventures
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-Recorded at @poleicons
-First mount from class a few weeks ago at @fly_club_chicago
#sundaybumday

#WonderPlayOfTheDay: Adventure and Celebration! .

#WonderPlayOfTheDay: Adventure and Celebration!
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When you are invited to celebrate, support, and witness your friends' and allies' triumphs, SAY YES.
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Pictured: our first outing to @solchicago_ with @elizabethtuazon @mr.ladysmith and @placeodiscovery
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Not pictured: the rest of the brilliance of the place, the light, loving, loving energy brought by @merrymaryhynes and @lauraeholloway -- you'll need to see that for yourself!!
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Unpicturable: the yumminess of the beverage program...

#boss #brilliance #askandyoushallreceive #wrightliving @wrightlivingchicago

#WonderPlayOfTheDay -- Defining yourself may defy

#WonderPlayOfTheDay -- Defining yourself may defy others' expectations.

Saw this video floating around without tagging the subject... I'm glad I dug around a bit to find Georgia! You seriously rock.

#Repost @black_coffee98
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This is how you RETIRE after serving your country! @savagexfenty @pharrell #pullupwitalemon ⚓✌🏾💙🙌🏾💃🏾

I yearn to matter. To make a difference. To realiz

I yearn to matter. To make a difference. To realize my potential. And so much more.

When I feel afraid and might withdraw or avoid my work, if I can orient to my yearnings and my vision for myself, I can take action in line with those, and get my yearnings met.

New format planned for tonight's Virtual Salon!! Head to my website for join info. If you yearn to connect, to be seen and known, to inspire and be inspired or to play and engage, these salons are YUMMY.

@wrightlivingchicago #wrightliving

#Repost @wrightlivingchicago
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Yearnings are the core, universal, human hungers that are underneath the things we want.

What do you yearn for?

#WonderPlayOfTheDay: beauty & preciousness. . . Ho

#WonderPlayOfTheDay: beauty & preciousness.
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How can I be nourished - find myself beautiful & precious - here and now?
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I looked at this photo from our @poleicons street poling adventure last week & dismissed it so fast as un-Instagrammable. Reasoning/judgment includes: It was during a freestyle moment, & I remember being genuinely in the moment, not having chosen a direction to go from there, not fully developed into a shape with a line, or demonstrating any flexibility or skill that I consider pride-worthy at the moment, my grip choices are questionable...
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Fast-forward to this morning. I was on the @wrightlivingchicago board support call this morning, & my takeaway lessons to ponder include:
☀️ We can find beauty & wonder just about anywhere, if we look. (aka wildlife in the city) Nature sure is nourishing for those of us in the city (and with the privilege/skills/resources to survive), but even in the city, the beauty & nourishment of the natural world is not absent.
☀️ It takes a village to raise a child (It was a few offspring's birthday celebrations), and those moments of witnessing & influencing a child's development are precious, even as the child grows up & doesn't appreciate the love/care as much.
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Having gotten those lessons, I was hungry to write a quick post about them & was looking for a photo representative... I found this, dismissed it ("not pretty enough")... then paused and considered the application of the lessons to this very photo.
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I wonder if I could find the beauty, as it is...as I am. I wonder if I could see this moment (the moment of the photo & the moment RIGHT NOW) as precious, part of the development, part of the journey, and appreciate the moments that got me here (in dance and in life) as well as the moments that are yet to come. I wonder if I could treasure myself as a worthy, growing creature, even as I resist and squirm away.
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Of course I could! And so could you. I challenge you to find beauty and preciousness today in one of your historically less-loved places & share it. You beautiful, precious creature.
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#wrightliving #treatyourselfwright #streetpole @lupitpole #lifecoach

📸 by @aerial_athletics_chi

#WonderPlayOfTheDay: Reminder. . . Felt cute. Won'

#WonderPlayOfTheDay: Reminder.
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Felt cute. Won't delete later.
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@mr.ladysmith styled me for an appointment today, and I took selfies because I'm cute and because it's fun and because I am practicing loving on MYSELF.
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I got to facilitate a co-working hour (thank you @megantaylormorrison and her community!) with beautiful humans today wherein I asked the question, "What reminder could you use today?"
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My reminder for myself today was that I am not only ok, but I am AWESOME. I am a gift when I really show up.
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I am learning to be kind, sweet, and loving to myself, and you know what? Little by little, it's working. I glow more. I'm becoming more of the gift I am, stepping more into the gift I can become. I receive plenty of assistance myself, and I'm loving the work I do for clients as they practice seeing their own light too. This is my work, and I adore it.
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What reminder could you use today?
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@wrightlivingchicago #treatyourselfwright #wrightliving

#WonderPlayOfTheDay: nostalgia & other feelings.

#WonderPlayOfTheDay: nostalgia & other feelings.
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Got my piano tuned this week by @mike.byrley at @precisionpianotuning (whom I met through singing in @chicagochorale and highly recommend), and it's such a relief and a pleasure to play this instrument again (which I got from @timfriese, who I *also* know from Chorale). So sweet to simply sit and play, pieces old and new!
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And look what I found! Not mine, but belongs to my youngest brother (not on IG) from a piano competition at @illinoismusicassociation 10 years ago. I think we played in competitions there till we aged out. I've definitely been in the competitive performing arts space for a long freaking time.
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Reflections on this - I think part of how I learned to sit with and process emotions was through playing music and dancing. It FELT SO GOOD to play BIG BEETHOVEN SOUNDS today - refreshing, enlivening, and clarifying. And even a little scary to be making such big sounds and taking up so much airspace. And slso very, very sweet and nostalgic. (@sandratuazon, I'm back on the sonata train, fyi!)
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What I'm learning at @wrightlivingchicago is that everyone gets messages about emotions growing up. And now as an increasingly conscious and learning/relearning adult, I can practice expanding what feelings I allow myself to experience and express in the moment. Every time I practice outside of what I habitually or unconsciously do, I grow. (P.S. They're hosting a free virtual training the weekend of September 11th - if you're interested, let me know and I'll hook you up.)
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#nostalgia #feelings #practice #pianist #wrightliving

#WonderPlayOfTheDay: who watches the Watchmen? . .

#WonderPlayOfTheDay: who watches the Watchmen?
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Lots of drama here! The Drama Triangle is ever-present in the stories we love. It's easy to get hooked. Also, beautiful characters easy to love and hate. Also, brilliant storytelling. Also, epic meditations on purpose and meaning, on cosmic levels.
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Some firsts here:
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📖 My first graphic novel
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🏛 My first book requested and checked out of @chicagopubliclibrary
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😳 My first time keeping a book over its due date, not renewable, and not having a fine assessed - so now I have only my own guilt as payment
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🖥 My first time watching a TV show to completion, with friends, over TIME (not binged), and then following up with reading the source material. @adelewilhelm @placeodiscovery @mr.ladysmith
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#watchmen #wrightliving @wrightlivingchicago

#WonderPlayOfTheDay: beneath the surface. . . I l

#WonderPlayOfTheDay: beneath the surface.
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I love a cool sparkling beverage on a hot day, and summer fruits to boot. They make an oddly beautiful and soothing dance, and I thought to record it.
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Then my CoachBrain did what it does and fired up a metaphor.
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Think of the berries as unfinished business. Even if I have many aspects of it that I'm working on, only one part of each berry is surfaced at a time; the rest is submerged. It may turn and roll around this way and that as the bubbles of life move it so we can see/smell/taste it from different angles, but rarely does a whole berry break the surface at once. I'd really need to take one ALL the way out of the glass to surface more of it, and perhaps I could deal with one at a time... and even then, until I re-process it - consume it and make it a part of me - I can only see one angle at a time, even when I'm studying deeply. Indeed, sometimes a berry will dive deep, totally submerged... but it doesn't stay there long! When it's time for it to be surfaced again, it will come up.
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We don't deal with big life work all at once - that's why we can use our whole lives. One berry of unfinished business at a time, my friends. One delicious, juicy bite at a time.
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What unfinished business has been surfacing for you lately? For me: dealing with authority, money, and cleaning up messes with stale hurts (including ones I inflict on myself).
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Brought to you by summer beverages and fruits, and a strong metaphor game.
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#coachbrain #lifecoach #Wonder #play #bubbles #berries #wrightliving @wrightlivingchicago

#WonderPlayOfTheDay: moving through mistakes! . .

#WonderPlayOfTheDay: moving through mistakes!
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Dog-sitting for @sandratuazon part-time today meant at the end of the afternoon, being in the living room I grew up in, at my mom's baby grand, opening an old piano book to a random page and playing it - for you, because I'm posting it in public, but really for me. Featuring my joy face, my concentration face, and my mistake face. There are many potential lessons here. The one I'm taking today is: I'm allowed to make mistakes and fully celebrate and delight in them, and enjoy them and myself. (Even so, I am now noticing how many sweet notes and phrases I played... and yet, I've made this whole post about the making of a mistake. I was even going to deflect and diminish the hundred lovely experiences of notes by criticizing from a place of former superiority from having "gone to school for this; what is that voicing, phrasing, pedaling, fingering, accuracy, legato?!?!" Ouch, superior self.)
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Historically, I used mistakes as a weapon against myself to confirm that I was not good enough. Increasingly, I celebrate my mistakes as harbingers of my learning and growth, and I use them to guide me towards realizing my potential.
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Repping @polesportorg because virtual #CPC is this weekend... live performance -- talk about moving through mistakes! The gold can be in keeping it going, finding out about your mettle. What version of you will you become on the other side?
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Y'all, I host virtual salons every Thursday evening, 7pm CT, for just these kinds of vulnerable shares. Come and bring your gifts - and be the gift that you are. Wonderplaygrow.com/salon
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@wrightlivingchicago #wrightliving #piano #pianist #poledancer #lifecoach #celebrate #mistakes

Virtual Salon #11 TONIGHT!! Head over to WonderPl

Virtual Salon #11 TONIGHT!!

Head over to WonderPlay Coaching on Facebook to find our event. Coming soon: a website feature of all the past visitors and guests...!

These events are so nourishing, y'all. And it's not just me saying that. Come and bring a gift to share, or simply BE a gift and witness others. All are welcome.

#WonderPlayOfTheDay: Weekend "observances" . . Sta

#WonderPlayOfTheDay: Weekend "observances"
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Stay diligent, safe, conscious, and engaged in your lives and relationships this weekend! Join me if you are hungry for some connection and aliveness.
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>>Tonight's (Thursday's) Virtual Salon, 7pm CT - DM me for the info
>>Friday's Talk Show on IG Live at 1:30pm CT with @deosluciddream
>>Saturday's Move Your Meaning at 4pm CT (register at the link in my bio)
>>Sunday Pole Level 3 class at @poleicons (!!!)
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@jessrosepole
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#WonderPlayOfTheDay: Support. . . Who gets your su

#WonderPlayOfTheDay: Support. .
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Who gets your support, and how? - this is one of the questions we'll be discussing on IG LIVE on FRIDAY, 1:30pm CT. This will be a weekly broadcasted conversation, focused on education and discussion, about what we're LIVING to talk about anyway. Join us!
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@deosluciddream @deos_pilates

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