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nurturing new life 🍇 offering my heart and breath to these costa rican lands. listening and learning from her and her people. meditating on the ebb and the flow of the pacific. building a relationship and reverence with the waves that keep coming.

seeds I’ve been watering as of late ~ the beautiful, the celebratory, the painful, the messy and all:

— i’m almost completed with my intermediate year of somatic experiencing training. an absolutely humbling journey that’s touched me deeper than any work has both personally and professionally.
— been pouring life force into some fun, new creative offerings that have had a very gratifying and abundant response (!!!)
— sitting with my heart each day, feeling her armor, her protection, her fear. grieving the parts that have historically searched for love outside to fill a void - frustrated when she won’t simply open. then remembering patience and care because safety can only be experienced, not forced.
— questioning old beliefs + reorienting to new values, or perhaps just actually now living by them instead of self abandoning. feels paradoxical that life feels lonelier at first when you stop abandoning self. perhaps that’s why so many don’t.

in summary: i’ve been deep in the listening as i experience an identity overhaul ~ clarity? i don’t know her. nothing too conclusive has formed, which has been deeply uncomfortable. and yet still i’ve been able to feel lit up by life, experiences, people. to let moments that mean something touch me deeply. thanking this beautiful capacity of mine every day for the ability to hold it all and find grace for the collective complexities of what it means to be alive on this planet right now.

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📹🌴✨ Jungle Love! Camcorder love! 📹🌴✨

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Love > Hate // Create > Consume

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Turned 30 a few weeks back.

One of my biggest priorities this decade is maximizing my sense of belonging by connecting the people I know and love with each other.

There’s a concept in neuroscience called Social Baseline Theory, developed by Jim Coan at the University of Virginia.

The core idea: your brain is a metabolic budgeting organ. Constantly forecasting how much energy you’ll need and allocating resources accordingly. It evolved assuming close proximity to trusted others at all times.

When your brain perceives itself as part of a connected group, it distributes the load. Threats can be shared. Resources can be pooled. Not everything has to be handled solo. So threat responses downshift — freeing up bandwidth for clearer thinking, better emotional regulation, deeper creativity.

When your connections are fragmented, the opposite happens. Your brain burns goes into a mind of subtle survival mode and burns more energy.

The system never evolved to operate alone. Being embedded in a group isn’t an upgrade it’s the default. Operating alone is the deviation (like not sleeping, not eating or not exercising).

But increasing belonging is not about increasing the total amount of people you know or how often you socialize.

It’s about increasing the number of interconnected nodes in your life.

Not just how many people know you — but how many of the people you know, know each other.

A fragmented network where nobody knows each other doesn’t signal “tribe” to the brain. An interconnected network one does.

The more you overlap the people in your life — introducing them, connecting them, weaving your worlds together — the more belonging your nervous system registers.

And the more belonging, the more you thrive.

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2/3 November 6th 2025
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@dianadreamdesigner
@rubenchanphoto
@frameweddingfilm
@oleo_events
@icazacreativoscatering
@nubereposteria
@lachicadelasflorescancun
@musikentertainmentmx
@marvioclivemusic
@drumsinparadise
@lospocketsmx
@licoresdeovando
@pyrocaribe
@jardindelmarcancun

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1/3 November 6th 2025
❤️❤️❤️
@dianadreamdesigner
@rubenchanphoto
@frameweddingfilm
@oleo_events
@icazacreativoscatering
@nubereposteria
@lachicadelasflorescancun
@musikentertainmentmx
@marvioclivemusic
@drumsinparadise
@lospocketsmx
@licoresdeovando
@pyrocaribe
@jardindelmarcancun

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💖🪩✨🪐🍬🌌💫💞🌀💿⚡🧬💗

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📹 Yo quepo en el mundo, y el mundo cabe en mi 🌎
A year of camcorder footage - (some) places, moments and people I have loved on a camera I love

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Autumn moments 🍁🍂✨

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COME PLAY WITH ELEMENTUM (& the best community ever) for our wellness decompression event.

🔗 in bio to secure your ticket ahead of time while tix last. ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

📍Primal Moves Venice

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Retreats with friends to the gorgeous desert of Joshua tree. A week of discovering secret doors and natural hot springs ✨
@_lucasacohen
@sheblossomsnow
@justinlubert
@jinx.la 📸
@alevsm_

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This place and experience are ineffable. It’s truly hard to find words—but I’m going to try.

It exceeded all my expectations. I was told not to have any… but it’s almost inevitable not to. I was told it was a place filled with magic, synchronicities, art, and music—my thought was that all these things already exist in daily life. But nonetheless, a part of me couldn’t resist finding out what all the fuss was about. Another part, it seems, can’t resist the call to adventure. I have a tendency to say yes to what we’re all calling…the unknown.

Everyone seemed to conveniently forget to tell me about the challenges: physical, emotional, and spiritual. It now feels like the entire world was in on this inside joke and telling me of magic and miracles was the way to get me there.

On a soul level, I think I knew. The internal resistance leading up to going was immense…I tried to get out of it at almost every step along the way.

But then I went.

I kept reading Rudyard Kipling’s poem IF the week before. The line, “If you can meet triumph and disaster and treat those two impostors just the same,” kept standing out as a sort of mantra I would need. Why? I thought. It was just a beautiful party in the desert, was it not? It was not. It was a whole lifetime in seven days (maybe multiple lifetimes). The beauty, the fears—and yes, the magic—but also the brutally mundane. It was like spiritual boot camp. Like all the therapy and ceremonies I’ve done in my life condensed into one week. I got coached by the desert.

And my God, it was worth it. It ended up giving me more than I could ever have imagined. The cave I feared to enter really did hold the treasures I was looking for… and the appreciation for it all- the perceived “good,” the perceived “bad,” and especially, an even greater appreciation for the beauty, resilience, and kindness of the human spirit.

This experience shall forever remain etched in my cells and in my heart. Thank you to artists who shared their art, the musicians who shared their songs and the lovely humans who I encountered along the way ❤️‍🔥

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