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Émilie Rose Guérin

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We are so excited to finally announce our Workshops lineup for We Create Our Futures 2026! Swipe through to see a few of our Facilitators.

Join us October 17th & 18th for a diversity of participatory workshops. From discussions about new systems, to learning to connect and work more collaboratively, to practical hands-on knowledge, this weekend is one for future forward thinkers and creatives. This is where we come to learn, share our perspective, get creative and build something new together.

Find our full schedule on our website, which you can find alongside the ticket link (Luma) in our Instagram bio! We hope you’ll join us :) by @emsembodied

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To see with eyes unclouded… by @emsembodied

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17 days ago

It takes great courage to own your clarity.

I am of the belief that beneath all our uncertainty is a truth we have come to that frightens us in some way, whether consciously or not.

When we don’t know what to do and helplessly ask for advice, we simply voice our forgetting, and our need for rest and silence. We express a lack of trust that we might find the answer, by outsourcing it instead of first asking ourselves. A humble blindness to what comes next feels scary to admit. Sometimes that results in a request for someone else to tell us what to do.

But when we do that in a world where everyone and their mother (and now AI) is telling you how to live your life, it can be dangerous. We can easily loose our ability to listen to our truth, to trust ourselves or even try to figure it out. It is important more than ever to take a minute to listen to your heart before the quick external solution.

This is what I’m inviting us into contemplating together at @sonicspringsfestival this year. If you choose to join me, you can expect to explore and practice what truth and integrity mean to you, what your own relationship to listening is, and to hopefully leave with a level of acceptance that inspires honest authentic action you can fully stand behind.

I am grateful for this opportunity to contribute to what I’ve only heard as some of my friend’s favourite festival. To be invited to share what goes on behind these eyes is scary and at once exciting :). I hope to meet you there. taken in Sonic Springs Music & Arts Festival by @emsembodied

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A blessing of being diagnosed with Crohn’s disease is the awareness that moments like these have become essential for my health.

Since being diagnosed in 2022, so much of my life has changed, but the biggest has been my willingness to embrace my ability to choose joy. I’ve picked up a habit of intentionally smelling food I don’t feel safe to eat. People often tell me how sorry they are for me.

Does the person in this video seem upset that she doesn’t have a McFlurry? She’s having the time of her life visualizing homemade ice cream made from a cow who consensually offers milk to a sweet local farming family. That’s my experience, and I just wanna be joined in that joy. What a dream to live and create from a desired reality.

Joy is not my only experience. The side people don’t see is the grief, inadequacy, constant fear/acceptance of death when shortness of breath, anemia, constipation & bloody stools flare, self isolation, shame when I eat something I know will hurt my body, emotional eating when being mindful yet uncertain every time I eat becomes overwhelming. Not to mention shedding years of masking & people pleasing to nurture authentic, nourishing relationships and thus auditing your whole life…

It’s a lot.

And yet, it is moments like this that keep me remembering why it’s all worth it.

Some more ways to enrich your life experience with imagination & play:

- Play mini-game music when grocery shopping
- Pretend you’ve just won an award after doing literally anything, give an acceptance speech
- Have a bed making competition with yourself (courtesy of @bluofearth on @youchoosepodcast which I highly recommend checking out)
- Write your own choreography to one of your favourite songs by listening to it on repeat, then present it to an audience of your choosing
- Run around in the rain in your bathing suit imagining the rain is here to cleanse you (cause it is)
- dress up before going on an errand, because life is the occasion

Lemme know if you think of more, and please leave them in the comments. I could use them and I think so many of us could use a little more freedom to be ✨whimsy✨ in our day to day lives.

*shared with co by @emsembodied

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I recently heard @brenebrown say that joy is the most vulnerable emotion. To be seen in your joy is the highest risk expression. The amount you are willing to be vulnerable and be seen in your joy is directly proportional to how deeply and freely you will experience your life. Not the fake laugh you put on when someone tells a joke you didn’t really find funny, or the smile you offer a camera you don’t want to be witnessed by.

The cheeky, giddy moments. The pure love and awe you experience that feels uncontainable. Your real, unabashed FULL ENTHUSIASM for something.

One of those things for me is dance. I. LOVE. To DANCE.

This was such a powerful moment for me. I saw the opportunity for the fear within me to be gently guided into safety in bigger expression in a public place and I TOOK IT.

The trees going by in the windows, the freedom to be completely unwitnessed, AND to BE witnessed by those on the train platforms. I felt like the star of my own show and simultaneously had the feeling of dancing alone in my bedroom. The train car was EMPTY, but the world could see me through the windows. Oh how I love to romanticize this life.

I got so anxious and hot in the face when I saw someone get on the car at one of the stops. I definitely paused and slowed down but I did not sit down. Because my intention had been “just keep going” I pushed through, beet red but still moving, I picked up my pace again and kept DANCING, shedding the fear of being seen as crazy and choosing to play in the energy, completely willing to be misunderstood. My joy and awe for life were more important to me in that moment than avoiding a pattern interrupt for a stranger.

That being said, it felt safe only because I had me. Inner mom Émilie was there dancing with 7 year old Émilie. This is your reminder that the first person who needs to witness you, is you. That’s where I’ve found a regulated nervous system.

When you do finally find the opportunity to practice finding ease being seen by others in your fullness, remember that that edge is the key to your freedom, and often a key to freedom for others too.

Challenge the mold. We’re the ones who decide the status quo. <3

OCT/13/2025 by @emsembodied

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a year ago

This story received so many responses from you all last night, so I thought I’d trim it down to just the poem and share it here 🫂. Let me know if you’d like to see more journal entries like this one on my page, there’s loads more where it came from ✨

Thank you to everyone who have sent me their well wishes and encouraging words. It is so nourishing to be witnessed by you 🩷 by @emsembodied

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If you know me, you’ll know the urge to move quickly, to “get up & at it” is very strong and often overrides my body’s need to recalibrate my nervous system.

I’d only gained a little energy from meditation and eating breakfast, so when the inspiration arose to dance, I only had 30secs to play until my body said no and I pulled a muscle in my back. Y’know when you wake up with a kink in your neck?

That, but in my mid back along my spine, shooting pain up and down it.

Shitty right? You’d think.

But then I smiled. Why you ask?

Because my very next move was a deep breath.

A slow stretch

Intentional gentleness with the parts of my body that had been screaming for attention.

If it weren’t for my pulled muscle, I likely would not have prioritized my body today. I would not have remembered how motivated I am to heal, nor why.

What better reason to slow down than to be able to dance?

My body said “Émilie, your energy is much bigger than the capacity you have cultivated physically to hold it. You need to heal so you can move with it.”

Just like my back, the scabs on my face are receipts of the ways I’ve blurred my health boundaries, and yet I am happy to see them.

Because it means I know where my attention and care is needed. My body is telling me exactly what it needs. The pain and discomfort I feel now has become an invitation into greater self-care.

I’ve learned to become grateful for moments like these, because where my mind didn’t know how to stop, where my soul craved freedom to move, my body forced me to sit down and give it tenderness instead.

So often we treat healing as a process that involves discipline, hard work, and strain.

Though that isn’t entirely untrue, what they don’t tell you is that the real work is learning to slow down and let yourself heal.

No one tells you how hard it is to allow yourself to be tired and allow your energy stores to fill back up to 100% before using it all up again. We have normalized “quick” recovery over sustainable forward momentum. And yet it is the most efficient path to success.

So I hope this story inspires you to pay special attention to what your body is asking of you today. You deserve it ☀️ by @emsembodied

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On Saturday, July 19th from 2-8pm I’ll be co-hosting another Bliss - Experience Connection event with @katrina.anastasia at a private venue near High Park!

Feel free to use “EM” at checkout for a 15% discount 🫂 Tix are in @weareonebliss bio 🌻💕

The intention is to allow play, music, and introspection inspire us to let our guards down and connect more authentically to one another. Think camp games meets mindfulness.

If you come you can expect ice breaker games, movement, self-reflection, group shares, mindfulness meditation, a long intermission, ethereal vocals by @the.ancient.youth and @leah.the.earthwalker and more good vibes 🦋☺️

May the work we do serve us to remember our interconnectedness 💕 taken in Toronto, Ontario by @emsembodied

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Pov: Come with me to my grandparent’s house on family day after a snow storm ☃️🌨️😊 (winds were still crazy)

Blue butterfly says Gigi was there 🦋

Stay ‘til the end for a super cool #bestdayever moment @manifestwithkailey LOOK AT THEM GO

#familyday #snowday #bestdayever @manifestwithkailey taken in Winter Wonderland by @emsembodied

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I’m so excited to announce that the first of our official BLISS gatherings has officially arrived!

We’ve been working behind the scenes for some time now planning and brainstorming for the next event, and its finally coming together. I’m so excited to see it come back to life 🩵 If you’re interested in coming to this next event or any future gatherings follow @weareonebliss to stay up to date. Can’t wait to share more and see you there! 🌸 Link for tickets in bio!

Song : “Now” by @katrina.anastasia and @wearepanpsyche taken in OBJX by @emsembodied

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