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Carrie Joy Wessling

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A place far beyond fear and shame, beyond judgment, loneliness, and expectation, a place that hosts the gathering of it all.

All of it.

Most of us are seeking the same things, yes?
Joy.
Love.
Adventure.
To be seen.
To feel safe.

And the rad thing is that there is no competition for any of it. Nada one.

These aren’t material possessions.
They’re not resources that run out.
They’re our birthrights.

Which means there is enough for all of us!!!

So, when we discover something that has helped us heal, grow, soften, breathe easier, or find our way forward, I think we’re meant to share it.

Not to convince.
Not to preach.
Not to be “right.”

Nothing to prove.
Something to offer.

A perspective.
A lesson.
A story.
A hand.
A hug.

Because what lifts one of us often lifts another.
We’re on the same team, ya’ll!

Maybe that’s the whole assignment:
Learn what helps your heart unclench.
Then tell somebody else where you found it. 🤍

xoxo

#sobernotboring #densitydropping #mentalhealth #recoveryispossible #alcoholism by @carriejooy

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5 months ago

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All the hoopla in the self-help world has spent decades hyping discomfort because “that’s where we grow.”

Yada yada yada.

I don’t believe that anymore. Not one bit.

From a neuroscience perspective, feeling soothed and safe is the biological prerequisite for creativity, intuition, connection, healing, and that exquisite true-YOU-unhinged expression.

A flower doesn’t bloom because it’s stressed. 🌷
A horse doesn’t trust because it’s pressured. 🐴
(write that 👆🏼down)

Meanwhile, ancient wisdom has been saying this for eons.

The heart unclenches.
The breath steadies.
The mind quiets.
Your natural rhythm calls the shots.
Your soul gets the mic.

It’s a far more enjoyable game of “Life Tetris” than the go, do, hustle, produce, drink-more-coffee, sleep-when-you’re-dead method that somehow became socially rewarded (how dare they. that’s twisted. very very twisted).

You don’t need another challenge.
You don’t need another checkmark on your to-do list.

THE UNIVERSE HAS YOUR BACK!
It’s already taken care of everything.
Let it work its magic while you aggressively drop into your comfort zone.
Go hard in the paint with it.
You can do it.
You will do it.
I’m casting the spell. 🪄🪄🪄

The world can run itself for a while while you do what feels warm, cozy, grounding, and soothing.

If this feels easier said than done right now, reach out.

Xoxo

#sobernotboring #comfortzone #densitydropping #theartofdoingnothing #givefewerfucks taken in Minneapolis, Minnesota by @carriejooy

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5 months ago

Nowism -
Much better❣️

Alcoholism-
Despair, victim consciousness, suffering queen, blaming people, places, and things, hiding, lying, unemployable, Benadryl or sleep aids to go back to sleep until the liquor store is open, believing life is against me, nowhere to call home, ambulances, hospitals, detoxes, treatment centers, handcuffed in police cars, jail, thousands of days I don’t remember.

Workaholism -
70 hour work weeks, abusing Adderall and caffeine, robotic, suppressed emotions leading to autoimmune and multiple injuries, stress levels leading to acne, no menstruation, insomnia, heart palpitations, hair loss, autoimmune diseases.
Believing my worth is in my doing.
Needing to prove myself as deserving of life.
Needing to make up for lost time.
Believing a certain # in my bank account will make me feel safe.
Believing my needs don’t matter… at all.
ALL of which are BS mistaken beliefs, btw.

Nowism - day by day, much
better❣️
Rolling out of bed and praying “Morning Creator/God/Giant Genie. I trust you. Thank you. Let’s do this.”
Chilled out. Feeling. Joy as a top priority. Loving that my passion project turned into my career.
Lots of nature, caring for my 26 plants, dancing, singing, cooking, horses, laughing, resting, staring at the ceiling, lifting weights, letting intuition and inspiration move me.
Some days challenge me. Big waves of emotion still arrive (I’m a Pisces, we have big feelings), but I no longer let them capsize me. Because they are messengers. I listen, even when I don’t want to, honor, learn, ask for support, and onward!

Being human is weird, wild, and brave.

How did I get here?
Asking for support and believing I deserve it. It didn’t happen without bits of resistance, but bit by bit, step by step… I accepted it and just let it happen.

From whom and what?
The Great Creator/God/Giant Genie, Spiritual Psychology, Energy Healing, Ancient Wisdom, Grieving, Friends, Family, 12 step program, prayer, meditation, silence, stillness, listening and laughing.

GOOD GOD GROWTH!!!! Cripes!
It’s all for Good, it’s all from God, it’s all for Growth.

If you’re in a “this is too much, I can’t handle this” chapter, reach out.

Big Hugs 🤗 by @carriejooy

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6 months ago

Imagination is a portal, ya’ll!

Permission granted to build the mind circuitry before it shows up as matter! 💫

Knowing the what + trusting the how = power move! 😘
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Artwork: My Not-Matter-Yet Life 🤍

#sobernotboring #frequencymedicine #energyhealing #imagination #expressionschallenge2026 by @carriejooy

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9 months ago

Side note:

I believe there’s an ancient language that exhists between humans and horses.

Before words. Before walls. Before our nervous systems were hijacked by constant noise and WiFi - there was a silent, sacred understanding.

Horses tune to our energy, our truth, our presence.

They often mirror back what’s aligned…and what’s not.

It’s biofeedback and somatic truth-telling in pure form.

I’m hooked on stories where horses arrive as guides - mystics, messengers, midwives of awakening. Serious. (currently hooked on Rhiannon - one of the most enchanting female figures in Welsh mythology)

So… if you get the chance - stand next to one. Breathe deeply and remember the ancient wisdom that’s always been in your bones and written on the cells of your heart.

The end.

Thanks for coming to my TED Talk on horses.

#horsesheal #horses #equineassistedtherapy #equineassistedlearning #sobernotboring #majesticcreatures #mentalhealth #horsewhisperer by @carriejooy

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a year ago

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I haven’t said much on this in a few months.
But here we are.

I stopped drinking because I was SO sick and tired of:
1. Hurting people.
2. Dancing with the devil and its poltergeists.

Alcoholism tried to erase me…
that’s just the nature of the disease.

It’s lethal.

We either get locked up, sober up, or buried up.
I’m 2 for 3 and have ZERO desire to add the 3rd.

Life is WAY too much fun now.
Life is gooooooooooooood 🤍

Even on the less-than-ideal-I’m crying-I’m grieving-I’m angry-I’ve been staring at a wall for an hour-might throw my computer against said wall-what is life-wtf days!

I’ll take feeling ALL the feels over operating like a managed and mangled animal stumbling off to die.

I’m here and I care if you or someone you know is looking/needing/wanting to stop dancing with the devil.

(Backstory’s in the April 4th post if you’re into that kind of thing)

🔗 in bio

#sobernotboring #sober #alcoholism #recoveryispossible #recoveryisworthit #recovery by @carriejooy

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a year ago

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You notice things others miss.
You pick up on energy in rooms.
You feel the weight of things that matter.

That’s rad. That’s innate elevated intelligence.

The world needs people who pay attention. Who can feel what’s happening beneath the surface.
Who can sense when something or someone is off and same same with what’s real.

Your tears and your laughter come from the same place - a place that’s awake to what’s actually going on.

We all love laughter.
Crying, however, has multitudes.
Just let it happen - in any form.
You may discover something about yourself and your nervous system will surely thank you afterwards.

In a world that’s a bit too numb, your aliveness is medicine, and that’s rad!

Holler if ya hear me 🥰

#densitydropping #thatsrad #mentalhealth #cryingiscool #addiction #addictionisreal #recovery #awakening #soulfood taken in Beacons Beach by @carriejooy

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BECOME WHO YOU ALREADY ARE!

Say yes to what you actually want—even if it doesn’t make sense yet?

Remove your presence from the people, places or things that drain you?

Stop believing that your past predicts your future?

Start the business?

Ask the person out?

Spend time in nature?

Write the letter?

Put the drink down?

Put the drug down?

Put the vape down?

Forgive yourself?

Forgive them?

Go fishing?

Make that phone call?

Blast the music, sing and dance?

Buy yourself flowers instead of waiting for someone else to do it?

Book the one-way ticket?

Go on the road trip?

Do the scary thing that feels like freedom?

Sign up for the course?

Say the damn thing?

Stop people-pleasing your way into energetic depletion? (I know you know what we’re talking about here.)

Rest, without guilt? (because honoring your body is wisdom, not weakness!!!!)

Trust the nudge that’s been whispering to you.

Breathe deeper.

Ask for help.

Pray. Cry. Rage. Write.
Slow down.
Say no.
Say yes.
Be seen.
Be still.

I’m here cheering you on!!!

Dare you to drop in the comments what your thing(s) are 😘

Xoxo

#densitydropping #sobernotboring #energyhealing #fumbleforward #adventure #maincharacterenergy #shutthedoor #mentalhealth #alcoholism taken in Chattanooga, Tennessee by @carriejooy

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a year ago

✨Play is the soul’s refusal to be tamed✨

Dr. Stuart Brown—psychiatrist and founder of the National Institute for Play—says what your inner child has known all along: play is a necessity, not a luxury.

He’s spent a lifetime studying how play fuels joy, connection, and cognition—and reminds us:

“The opposite of play isn’t work. It’s depression.”

“Nothing lights up the brain like play.”

“When we stop playing, we stop developing.”

“Play is the gateway to vitality and growth.”

So go do something the little you loved doing.

Color
Build a fort
Run through the sprinklers
Jump in puddles
Bring out the nerf guns
Play hide and seek
Sing and dance REAL loud.
Blow bubbles
Talk to your imaginary friends
you get the idea…

72 hours.
Clock starts now.

bonus points if you leave a comment on what you get into!!

#treatyourself #innerchildwork #mentalhealth #frequencymedicine #energyhealing #innerchildtherapy #prettyfulllottasap #lottasap taken in Minnesota by @carriejooy

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a year ago

This is how it went down 😬

1. Excessive coffee… stacked on top of ADHD meds
→ Because overclocking my nervous system and cramming more into a day than a day could hold (stacking 12-16 hour work days) validated the bullsh*t belief I carried: that my worth was in my doing.
N O T T R U E!

2. Crying privately (always privately) in my car, shower, kitchen, woods, bed, yada yada. Then telling myself “TOUGHEN UP. GET IT TOGETHER. ENOUGH OF THIS ALREADY” instead of allowing the tears to flow as they’re designed to do.
→ Because suppressing my emotions felt like the more efficient option in a productivity-obsessed world (leading to multiple autoimmune complications later on).

3. Taking pride in being a next-level nonchalant, unbothered and chill person.
→ When I was actually bottled up, spiritually bloated, fragmented and deeply disembodied.

4. Thought nervous system regulation = $16 cold-pressed juice and lavender face mist.
→ Because managing appearances felt more doable than regulating my system.

5. Believed rest was for weaklings.
→ Until my body said “cool, now you don’t have a choice because you’re injured and sick”.

6. Interpreted restlessness and anxiety as a sign I should be doing more.
→ Not a signal that I needed to pause, breathe, and listen.

Uff! 😣

My adventure of slowing down and paying attention didn’t happen overnight, and there was plenty of fumbling forward.

The magic of it all is that within the slowing down, intentionality arrives—and with that, a deeper sense of freedom lands hard.

If you’re running on fumes, auto-pilot, caffeine and quieting what your body has been trying to say -
I get it.
Zero Judgement.
Been there.
Didn’t end well.

Come sit down.
Let’s chat and land you on sustainable ground.

🔗 in bio to book a free chat.

#slowdown #autoimmune #mentalhealth #energyhealing #sobernotboring #fumbleforward #densitydropping #recoveryispossible #burnout #burnoutrecovery #caffeineaddiction # by @carriejooy

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Move your body like you trust it—
Not to look a certain way.
Not to chase an image.

Be your own image.
Humans are like snowflakes—no two have ever been, or ever will be, the same.

Permission granted to be in honest relationship with the vessel you live in.
Yes, you.

Even if that means being still in silence.
Especially if that means being still in silence.

Your mantra:
“Thank you, body. I’m here. I’m listening.”

What feels best physically, mentally and emotionally?!

For yours truly over here, that sometimes looks like surfing, yoga, shooting hoops, biking, or fishing—because they make me smile.
Other times, it’s a short walk in nature.
Some days, it’s gently swaying in a hammock and barely moving at all.
As of late, it’s been staring at water and praying.

All of it is valid.
All of it is wise.

Choose what makes your heart smile.

Any noise from the world telling you your worth depends on your size or appearance?
It can go kick rocks. Seriously. That story has expired.

The body knows when to burn bright and when to be still.

Loving reminder:
Stillness is not laziness.
Stillness is not laziness.
One more time for the people in the back—
Stillness is NOT laziness.

It’s not about how it looks—or how you look to the world.

It’s about how honest it feels to you.

#theartofdoingnothing #getbuckets #surf #yoga #hammocks #heartandsoul #mentalhealth #sobernotboring #stillnessisnotlazy #densitydropping #bekindtoyourvessel #listentoyourbody #slowandsteadywinstherace by @carriejooy

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2025
Year of the Snake in the Chinese Zodiac.

We are nearing 3 months in. The first quarter is almost “done” and ooooowwwiiiee! If you’ve really felt this one, you’re not alone.

For sensitive souls, the ones who’ve been absorbing, processing, healing, and holding it down—this is the year you choose expansion over suppression.

The shedding of the snake - slithering out of what no longer fits - is part of its expansion and it is not comfortable. It’s the in-between stage. The snake knows before it’s visible externally. Lethargy begins, isolation feels safer, and a cloudiness in the eyes sets in.

This is how transformation begins. Knowing, stillness, quiet, beginning to see things differently. Saying goodbye to the pieces that carried you up to this point. Because what got you here may not get you there. Love and trust the person who is emerging, for it is more resourced and aware now.

Post shedding:
The snake is not forceful .
It’s not chaotic.
It doesn’t chase.
It waits, poised, reading the terrain with precision.

When it moves, it does so with intention. No wasted energy. No apologies.

Its strike is done with wisdom: You’ve earned this remembrance of your knowing. Trust it.

Strike with sacred rebellion: You were never meant to be anything that shrinks your magic.

You’ve been preparing. Your soul knows what feels right. Sometimes it takes the human a bit to “catch up” to the alchemy within.

Move anyway. Strike.

Moral of the story - be the snake. Shed what no longer fits. Expand.

The world needs you.

🔗 in bio. Book a chat. We’ll explore your expansion. Zero dollars.

xoxo
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#missionaccomplished #onwards #mentalhealth #energyhealing #fumbleforward #sobernotboring #resilience #frequencymedicine #recoveryispossible #alcoholism #yearofthesnake #theworldneedsyou #itstimetoexpand #maincharacter #maincharacterenergy #shutthedoor taken in Colorado by @carriejooy

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