November 2, 2026
Insight for Life: Wisdom from Paulo Coelho’s book called The Archer (read image below)
Tool for the week: More relaxing music by Malte Marten to help regulate your nervous system. You can even listen to while you work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVAdkcnsguk&list=RDIVAdkcnsguk&start_radio=1
October 26, 2026
Insight for Life:
'“A leaf doesn’t let go because it wants to, it let’s go because its purpose is to exist and then become Earth.” ~ Root&Connect
Tool for the week- Breathing is such a powerful way to regulate ourselves and become more embodied. What if you pretended to be a leaf by carving out 5 to 10 minutes per day to lay down on the floor and breathe consciously?
I have been learning more about how breathwork helps our nervous system through a training called Rewild Breathwork (https://www.rewildbreathwork.com)
Rewild shares this:
‘The nervous system is your body’s communication network. It constantly scans for cues of safety, danger, connection or threat. Its Activation is a form of Protection & Intelligence. And we can get stuck in activation. Breath is the tool (the vehicle) to give your system the conditions to unwind.’
Functional breathing (naturally breathing in and out of the nose) assists us in:
Regulation
Stability
Clarity
Capacity for daily life
Conscious Connected Breathwork (breathing in through the mouth to expand the belly and chest then exhaling through the mouth with ease) assists us in:
Accessing Emotions
Somatic Expression
Pattern Unwinding
Expanded States
The Intention, the Physiology, and the Depth is what makes Conscious Connected Breathing different and more beneficial.
October 19, 2026
Insight for Life:
"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens." ~ Carol Jung
Tool for the week- Carve out 5 to 10 minutes PER DAY to lay on the floor in Savasana. Savasana (Corpse Pose) is a resting and restorative asana practiced at the end of a yoga session to integrate the practice and calm the mind and body. This is an easy tool for grounding and self-regulating. Lay on your back, with arms and legs spread open, palms face upward, close your eyes and allow yourself to melt into the ground. Imagine that Mother Earth is supporting you and holding you dearly in her embrace.
October 12, 2026
Insight for Life:
"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass… It's about learning to dance in the rain." ~ Vivian Greene
Tool for the week- This video from The Workout Witch is a real game changer. If you’re feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, tense, stressed, or stuck in fight-flight-freeze…try this one out!
October 5, 2026
Insight for Life:
Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. ~Pema Chodron
Tool for the week- I have been reading Elizabeth Gilbert’s memoir about Love, Loss and Liberation from Addiction in her book called All The Way To The River. The last chapter of the book is called My Little One. Since it is short enough, I decided I would share it here for clients. My hope is that this share inspires some self-reflection on your own Little One that lives inside you and waits for you to be in relationship with so that the road to healing can begin and stay on path.
To read more about the book, click here: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/223405886-all-the-way-to-the-river
September 21st, 2026 on the last day of Summer-
Insight for Life:
Our nervous system is always nudging us to make space for practices that help us re-regulate. ~Root&Connect
Tool for the week-
Stumbled upon this video and my body immediately asked me to keep playing it in the background. Let yourself truly listen. Notice your nervous system relax as something deep within you awakens.
Introduction to Tools for the Week
Dear Clients present, past & future,
After years of being in private practice and growing Root&Connect in the ways I’ve known how to, it finally dawned on me today on September 21st 2026 that something useful for all of you would be a place to easily access tools that might help you to feel better when you are in a pickle.
Another way to say this is, HERE is a home to find tools that might help you feel calm, held and safe when you really need it most.
As someone who has experienced big waves of both Anxiety & Depression that come with lots of FEAR and sometimes an overwhelming amount of SHAME & DESPAIR, I know that feeling of ‘no way out of the darkness’.
Think of this as Root&Connect’s PEACE PAGE.
I will do my best to fill it with the things that help me such as meditations, videos of music that soothe, Insights for Life & Worth the Shares. My mission is to add one new thing each week starting today and every Monday moving forward.
ANYTHING & EVERYTHING chosen with an INTENTION (a heart’s desire) to HELP SOOTHE YOU BACK TO SAFETY & SERENITY.