But here’s the thing most people don’t realize: focusing only on the list of things to do on the outside, without making time for tending to yourself inside (your heart, your soul, your relationship with this little being growing inside you), actually slows you down. 

Tune Out

The world’s not gonna stop putting bright shiny things in front of you. You have to decide to tune out the stuff that doesn’t matter (like your second cousin’s scary birth story that she word-vomited on your Facebook page.) So you can tune in to what's actually important to you.

You have to choose to direct your attention in a world that is constantly trying to choose for you.

I’m not saying it’s easy. But when you do? Holy Wow.
A whole world opens up.

You suddenly drop in and experience this ridiculously amazing thing that’s happening inside you. You learn to love the heck out of your incredible body and crush the idea that your body's “in the way” of what you want to do in your life right now.

You connect with your baby. Feel your feelings. Celebrate. Grieve. And everything in between.

You LIVE your life, rather than rushing through it. 

Yes, pregnancy is scary. There’s so much at stake. It’s new and weird–even if it’s not your first time around. Of course you’re doing everything you can to be well informed to make the best decisions for you and your sweet babe. 

But with all the information overload, how the heck do you sort through it all and actually MAKE those good decisions??

You need to be connected to a source of info that is nowhere near the internet. That’s YOU. 

Call it your inner wise self, your intuition, your inner Yoda. It’s all the same thing–it’s the knowing that we all have about what's best for us. And it is so freaking important to be able to hear it above the noise. 

All of the practices in the course are designed to help you listen for your inner guidance, so you can have that as a foundation for your life. It creates a muscle that you then use throughout your pregnancy. And I'm not going to add any scary stats, but being able to listen to the messages of your body/intuition affect birth outcomes in profound ways. 

As you practice leaning into that space of your own knowing, you begin to hear yourself more clearly and easily. You start to trust that unique voice in your own head. And then it becomes a resource you can access in a snap second when you need it. It’s like magic.💥

Turn up the Volume on Your Intuition. Loud.

Get Ready for Motherhood. (Or, as Ready as You Can Be for Something as Insanely Vast and Complex as Being a Mom.)

Truthbomb: preparing for motherhood (or adding a kid to the fam) is not just about perfecting your registry and taking fish oil. It’s about the inside stuff, like processing big messy feelings, or your relationship with your mom (sorry, it’s true.) And you can’t pick that up at Target. 

Sure, you can skip this one. Lots of people do. They spend hours pinning the perfect nursery, even as that little fear creeps in: “what if I lose myself,” or, "what if my relationship implodes?”

Then they spend hours painting that perfect nursery, even as the fears keep nagging at them (almost as often as "I miss sushi".)

You came into this world as a fully expressed little being. Using your voice, dancing with abandon, getting messy with paint, building castles in the sand. Being YOU, out loud. You were connected to the innate joy of creativity. (Just like your own child will be, before you know it.)

But somewhere along the way, you lost touch with that fully free, joyful, creative self.

Maybe it was in school, where the arts were shoved aside as something "special" to do once a week. Maybe it was later, when you were told you couldn’t make money as an artist or writer. Or maybe you hung onto creativity, but you still ended up with a voice in your head telling you that sure, you can sing, but you can’t draw.

Either way, you’re certainly not that free, curious, unselfconscious version of yourself anymore. 

We’re bringing her back. 

Reclaim Your Badass Creative Power 

And then they end up on the other side with their beautiful baby (and amazing nursery), and mixed in with the joy and exhaustion are still lots of feelings they never faced. And the feelings keep tugging and get h-e-a-v-y. Sometimes they can even feel like depression, weighing them down.
They don’t just go away.

I don’t want that for you. I want you to DIG IN. Because when you face the hard stuff, freedom is waiting for you on the other side.

Not the fake freedom of “oh, everything is just fine and always will be,” but the real freedom of “I can face all of the ways that life is outside of my control. I can feel my fears, and also feel my strength and power and my ability to deal with whatever comes.” 

Because that’s what you actually need as a mom.
(Yep, those baby photo props are totally optional.)

For you, so that you can reclaim your full self. And for your kids, so you can be a champion for them staying connected to their own creativity, and the joy and authentic self expression that comes along with it.

As you create from this place, you heal your own intergenerational shame around creativity. And by doing that, you make room for your kids, and your whole family, to be fully self expressed. I mean, what is better than that???

Plus, tapping into your creativity is one of the best ways to achieve all these other goals we just talked about: tuning into what really matters, listening to your intuition, and using that inner wisdom to prepare for motherhood in the ways that count.

Also? It's fun. And fun matters.

The wildly creative course that prepares you for motherhood from the Inside-Out.

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