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Oola Bella | wayfinder coach & somatic practioner

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I thought failing meant I had lost the only way I could help people….

I hadn’t.
I lost one route.

So I found another.

I refused to let one result decide what I was capable of.

You are not what happened to you.
You are what you do next. by @oolabellaa

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3 months ago

oh my god!! lock in for the REAL DEAL.

the body, the money, the discipline, the healing, the business… none of it is the point on its own.

the point is the life it lets you live.

more freedom.
more strength.
more generosity.
more presence.
more courage.
more room to actually enjoy being here.

your goals should serve your values… not replace them.

last quarter lock-in, but make it mean something. by @oolabellaa

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9 days ago

the most regulated thing you can do isn’t another breathing exercise.

it’s taking one deep breath… and showing up anyway.

emotional maturity isn’t waiting until you feel ready.

it’s feeling everything, and still choosing the response that aligns with the person you want to become.

your emotions deserve to be heard.

they just don’t have to make every decision for you. by @oolabellaa

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be a villager 🫂 by @oolabellaa

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you know what is DIVA????

#feelingyourfeelingswithNOdrama 😱😱

gasp!!! I know right? a feeling can last 90 seconds IF you let it. no need to replay the story. FEEL it and keep moving.

Love ya xx you can do better by @oolabellaa

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Feel it. USE IT. AND choose anyway. by @oolabellaa

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and wouldn’t have changed seats if we’d been comfortable.

Change works like that too. Staying where you are is uncomfortable. Doing something different is uncomfortable.

At some point, you decide that the discomfort of changing is worth more than the discomfort of staying the same. by @oolabellaa

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this is the practice i come back to when i feel stuck in my head and need to get back into my body before starting my day:

1. shake + stop — shake everything out, then pause and notice
2. release it all out — inhale up, exhale + let everything drop
3. stomping — slow, heavy steps into the ground
4. spine circles — waking up the spine
5. down dog + pedal — move through the back body
6. lizard → half split — opening through the hips + hamstrings
7. reverse warrior → side angle — movement + breath
8. malasana — settle into the hips
9. reclined butterfly + twists — slow everything back down
10. savasana
11. butterfly taps + orienting — come back into the room

the point isn’t to become perfectly calm.

it’s learning how to come back to yourself when your head gets loud — so how you feel doesn’t have to decide what you do next.

Comment “7” to get the exact 7 days of practices + prompts that helped me work with the overwhelm, fear, avoidance, self-doubt + patterns that kept getting in my way. 🕊️ by @oolabellaa

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whooppps 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️ by @oolabellaa

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the secret might be painfully boring.

do the things you know work.

and then… don’t stop doing them before they have the chance to work.

eat well. move. make the thing. post the work. keep your word. have the conversation. practise the skill. come back tomorrow.

I think I’ve spent way too much time looking for better answers when the answer I already had is enough.

less restarting. just do it.

I know what I’m building. now I’m giving it the repetition to become real. by @oolabellaa

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3 months left. less drama.

you can kind of feel the year starting to close now.

and not in a reinvent your entire life before december kind of way.

just… take yourself seriously.

look at what you said you wanted this year.
look at what’s actually in your hands.
and do something with it.

less waiting. less negotiating. less making it bigger than it needs to be.

we still have time. use it well. by @oolabellaa

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7 days ago

sometimes we call it “not being ready to let go” when really we’re still waiting for the past to give us something.

an explanation.
an apology.
a different ending.
one last bit of certainty.

but moving forward doesn’t require the past to cooperate.

you’re allowed to miss it and still choose not to carry it anymore. by @oolabellaa

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