Hurry Slowly - Remember who you are

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Hi Friends-

I've been engaging with a new practice during my morning meditation, which has been bringing me much comfort. At the end of my session, I fold my hands over my heart and ask my guides/teachers/ancestors/spirit: "What would you have me know today?" The idea for this practice came to me through my friend Sebene, and I believe she said it came to her through Elizabeth Gilbert. So many beautiful messages have come through about love, self-worth, lightness, mystery... but the one that comes most often is: "Remember who you are."

Our culture is so focused on "finding" — on seeking a solution outside of ourselves — that it's easy to forget about "remembering." That everything we need is already right here, within us. That we do not need to look to someone else for the answer, or relentlessly improve ourselves, we simply need to come home to ourselves — to remember who we are.

Which is not to say that is a simple thing to do. "Be yourself" is some of the hardest advice to embody. It was only during this season, five years into hosting my podcast Hurry Slowly, that I listened back to an episode and thought: "Wow, I finally almost sound like myself." After five years! (More incredible: One of my best friends listened to the episode and also noticed.)

This theme also comes up in a wonderful conversation between Krista Tippett and the Surgeon General, Vivek Murthy, that I link to below — the idea that the feeling of wholeness that we seek is not something to be found through external achievements or money or fame, but rather by reconnecting to who we are on the most fundamental level. By remembering what lies within rather than reaching outwards for completion.

As I look back, I can see that this idea has been a core theme of every course I have created — RESET, Hi-Fi, Tender Discipline — they are all about learning how to embody your own idiosyncratic way of doing things, how to connect with the inner knowing that is always there, how to motivate yourself from a place of compassion and tenderness.

As I continue to pull on this thread of remembering who I am — and who we are — I'm hard at work on creating a new course called CHANNEL, which is about building a creative practice and connecting to your deepest gifts in a way that honors spirit, flow, and spaciousness. And I think I can confidently say it will be unlike any other "creative process" course you've ever taken or book you've read. Largely, because most of the creative process canon is still focused in some way on productivity, showing up, grinding it out, extracting your best work.

CHANNEL is going to be about receiving — rather than taking, grasping, or extracting. It's going to be about how you can open up a spacious, nourishing channel for your creativity — for your gifts — to emerge and flow through you.

CHANNEL will be a six-week course that encompasses all the usual flavors: talks from yours truly, integration sessions for processing & communing with the group, and journal prompts for deeper reflection, among other goodies.

I'm planning to open registration the week of May 22nd, and the six-week course will begin the week of June 5th. If the idea of opening a channel to your deepest gifts feels aligned for you, go ahead and pencil those dates in.

I'll be sharing more details about CHANNEL as the launch gets closer. : )

Much love,
Jocelyn

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Artwork by Claire Droppert.

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Breaking patterns of "self-extraction." On the latest episode of Hurry Slowly, I speak with therapist-turned-writer Lisa Olivera about what it’s like to step out from behind the scenes and claim your voice and your whole-humanness, why we fall into (and stay in) professional roles or careers that we may have outgrown, and how easy it is to slip into patterns of self-extraction where you’re overgiving and holding space for others to the point of depletion. It's a nourishing conversation that picks up where my last podcast episode, "Am I Allowed to Say This?," left off.

Being made and unmade by a force greater than yourself. I always love hearing what J. Wortham has to say. This is a gorgeous essay on the power of the ocean to wash us clean and help us reconnect to our own inner beauty: "Water, then, has the power to absolutely transform, to take one material and turn it into something else. What’s queerer than that? Being made and unmade by a force greater than yourself? If queerness can be understood as a longing, a technology that allows us to glimpse something new that we sense before we can see it, a dowsing rod, a black light, then water might be the catalyst that dissolves our attachment to whatever is keeping us from it, from ourselves."

Remembering who you are. Before I listened to this interview with Krista Tippett, I knew hardly anything about Vivek Murthy, who is the Surgeon General and someone with a deeply thoughtful perspective on healing, love, and wholeness. It's nourishing stuff: "I think to truly feel whole — it’s not about acquiring something that we don’t have. It’s about remembering who we fundamentally are. When we come into this world — as I see with my own kids, and many of you may have seen with other young people in your lives — we are content. My kids don’t care whether we have a big house or a small house. They don’t care about how fancy the clothes are that they wear or not. They care about finding moments of joy. They care about the relationships they have with the people around them. They observe things whether it’s a fleck on the wall that wasn’t there before, or whether it’s the play of lights as they come through the window in the setting sun. And they find joy in that, in those day-to-day, seemingly ordinary moments."

The flood of new ideas. A nice piece from Marlee Grace on turning off social media, stepping outside of the comparison machine, and tuning into your own rhythms: "I noticed in my month off social media the ideation phase of my practice felt so serene, I had less money then and yet I still found myself with so much more trust. Left without the reminders that everyone else is always launching, always sharing, always has something to sell. I found myself peaceful with my pace."

Are you over-giving in your business? I loved this podcast episode from Off the Grid, hosted by Amelia Hruby, which is a kind of “come to Jesus” conversation about the value (or lack of value) in content marketing. She shares so many keen observations about how an obsessive focus on content production can distract us from getting really clear on the foundations of how our business and our offerings actually generate money. I also love this podcast’s general focus on achieving “energetic sovereignty” in your business. What a concept.

+ My talented friend Sterling has a new course on healing queer leadership wounds.

+ A small taste of how out of control the demands of work have become.

+ Frog moods to soothe your relationship woes.

+ Thoughts on "crispation."

Artwork by Claire Droppert.

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The photographs are from: Claire Droppert, who is based in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Link ideas from: Sebene Selassie & Marlee Grace.

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Hi, I'm Jocelyn, the human behind this newsletter. I host the Hurry Slowly podcast, teach online courses, and practice energy work through the Light Heart Project. You can learn more about me at jkg.co. If you have a question, you can always feel free to hit reply. 🤓

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