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Today is January 22nd, 2026 and I've been doing a lot of
thinking about the year of the snake in this final shedding
that we're in. I wish I could give the content
creator credit for this kind of visual and analogy, but I don't
remember who they are. If I find them, I will for sure
post them. But they were talking about the
final phase of this year of the Snake, right?
Which in Chinese astrology we move into the year of the Fire
Horse, I believe it's February 17th.
And so this final shedding is like the tail of the snake
whipping to release the skin that's accumulated at the end of
it. And that's what it's really felt
like for me lately, the final shedding of things that are no
longer meant to be in my life. And I got to tell you, it's been
really hard. You know, as I look back on
2025, I lost two really, really dear friendships. 1 quietly
faded away, and one kind of startled me with how it ended
after so much love and care and holding space and there wasn't
any room for that relationship anymore.
That's probably the easiest way to say it.
Now, as I've done my healing work, I understand that, you
know, we change and the people that we have in our lives are
mirrors of where we are. So it didn't surprise me that
some of these relationships we're going to shift, but it
didn't make it any easier, right?
So I just, I first want to just, you know, send out some love to
you all listening who have dealt with a lot of this loss in the
last year, the shedding, shedding of identities, shedding
of patterns, shedding of relationships that don't align
with our authentic selves. I think, you know, we've all
been seeing, seeing it, feeling it, experiencing it, some more
than others. And I just want to say if you've
been particularly hit with this, like, I just want to validate
the hell out of you and say it's hard stuff.
And there's a grieving process that we don't talk about.
Even if it's, even if it's a relationship where you're like,
yeah, I I can see it's time to let this go or this pattern go.
It's still a part of our our identity that's shifting.
And that can be really rattling and it brings grief.
And So what I'm talking about today is, you know, you know me.
I'm an open book. Vulnerability is my superpower.
Once I speak it, it loses its grip.
It loses any shame around it. So I want to be the example for
you talking about right now in this moment, what's left to go
again, here we are January 22nd. It is the final whipping of the
tail bitches. And I'm taking an honest look at
what are the people, the patterns, the thoughts, the
habits, the beliefs, what whatever label you want to put
on it. The I will not take with me into
the year of the Fire horse. I just won't do it because as
you know, when I gave up alcohol for good and I started saying to
myself, 0 for life, it was because I would not let anything
get in the way of me living my very best life.
And I will be damned if I go into this next astrological year
carrying anything with me that's going to hold me back.
And that's a lot, right? So let's start with the easy one
is sugar. What fascinates me about my
relationship with sugar is I didn't immediately replace
alcohol with sugar, which is very typical.
When you give up 1 dopamine reward addiction, you will find
a replacement addiction. And that didn't happen with me
for like, I don't know, a year. And I think it was more some gut
dysbiosis that happened over time that led me down the sugar
habit. But then it became a habit and
it became something that turned into some pretty strong
cravings. So back in December, before I
did my 9th psilocybin journey purely legally and under legal
medical guidance here in the state of Oregon, I have to put
that disclaimer out there. About a week prior I decided to
do, I was attempting to do a 72 hour water fast, which I'm very.
I want to put the disclaimer out there.
Don't just do it 'cause I'm talking about it.
I have had an incredible amount of education and experience
around fasting. So I was going for 72 hours.
My body said 65 was enough. So I I did a 65 hour fast, which
in that process, that's enough time to reset your gut
microbiome. So I was really, really pleased
with that. But then I noticed after
probably about 3 weeks post journey it started creeping back
in. And so me doing all of my work
with the 0 for Life, the Science meets Soul method to alcohol
freedom, I knew that there was something going on with my
nervous system and my dopamine reward programming that was
driving these cravings, right? I was eating really, really
well. So I knew it wasn't a
physiological craving. I could see that with the
intensity around marketing and building all all the content for
the program was causing me a lot of stress and my brain and its
beautiful nature was going. What's the fastest way I can
take care of this? And I'm still working on my own
patterns of doing breath work and EFT, but I noticed those
weren't cutting it. I needed more.
And what I needed more of was spaciousness in my schedule and
I needed to take more breaks. As many of you and the personal
development Wellness, if you're, if you're a guru, not a guru,
but if you're an educator, a healer in this space, or if
you're just love to absorb information on Wellness and self
development, then you know we are in a season of quiet and
rest. And I'm literally mid launch.
I'm, I'm doing the opposite. I'm pushing a program out during
a season that's meant to be quiet and there's a lot of
reasons why that timing aligned for me and so I just had to
start figuring out how to work with it and give myself some
more spaciousness. Anyone who knows me and my
day-to-day knows I am a calendar crammer.
Like I call it Tetris saying my calendar, I will fit in social
activities I work out like like including my one hour dog walks
everyday, almost 20 hours a week.
And my body was starting to revolt and I was ignoring it.
I started to get this really strange phantom, that phantom
strange nerve burning and and itching and tingling in my toes.
And I'm going down the rabbit hole of what that could be.
And it's really all nervous system related.
And so I'm, I'm learning how to balance that out.
So that's, that's one of the things I'm releasing.
So I talk about sugar, but the sugar is just a symptom of the
deeper thing to release, which is my nervous system was getting
overwhelmed. So I had to look at, OK, I've
incorporated these techniques that I know to soothe my nervous
system and that wasn't cutting it and my body was saying it's
still too much. So one of the other things that
I'm releasing is this this kind of, and this is a big one for
me, this FOMO this like need to like get it all done now and
push it out as soon as possible. You know, because I want to
create that financial security for myself.
I want to build, keep building this vision with cricket fixes
and growing to be the number one membership and marketplace and
personal development. You know, like, if I don't keep
going, I'm going to like miss this window when, you know, in
my education, I know that if I'm pushing too hard too fast, I'm
missing the real gifts and the real speed, which comes with
spaciousness and intention. So I'm really, I am letting go
of my packing in my schedule, socially, exercise, physically.
I'm backing off of pickleball, which is really hard.
I'm backing off of social engagements, which is really
hard. I'm learning how to protect my
energy better. And that was the other thing
that I want to invite you all to do because I'm I'm leading next
week is the first soul observation session of the 2026
series. If you don't know about the SOS
is they are bimonthly. I'll come group coaching
sessions where we all gather and I either drop us into a guided
meditation slash hypnosis session or we work with EFT, but
we teach on a we focus on a certain topic or theme.
I do an educational practice and then we open it up to some
really heartfelt discussion so that you have a place to drop
into every other month that's totally free to join live.
And then the replays of the content that I teach, not the
group sessions because that's kept private, but I record that
teaching component to then deliver to members.
But as I was preparing for this upcoming one, it was all about
releasing, right? This final shedding.
But where I've got a little stuck was like, I had created
this word for 2026. What do I want my word to be
this year? And it was all about ease.
So it for me, it helped to start with what am I calling in?
What am I calling in? What am I truly calling in?
And that made it clear what it is I need to release.
If I'm calling in ease, that means not I'm releasing packing
in my schedule. If I'm calling in ease, that
means letting go of relationships that are lacking
reciprocity or this idea that the there's an equal exchange of
energy. I have to reframe those and let
those go. I have to preserve my energy.
And it's not easy stuff. It's not.
But I think once you, of course, I'm going to bring everything
back to inner child healing. Psychedelics, inner child
healing and being alcohol free are literally what have
transformed my life. And it, it, I'm always going to
bring it back to everything gets easier when you've done your
inner child healing. Cause your inner children aren't
afraid of letting things go that aren't in their greatest and
highest good because you are there for them.
The adult, the grounded, centered, heeled adult is there
to be there for them. So yeah, the stuff isn't easy.
It isn't easy to look at these things and these habits, these
patterns, these people that we need to let go of.
But it gets so much easier when our and our children aren't
driving the bus to cling to them out of fear, right out of duty,
out of obligation. Because some of us learned that
being in relationship came with hard work and we had to give and
give and give and be loyal and be strong because that made us
worthy. So all of those things, I, I'm
inviting you all to look at those patterns, those stories
that we hold onto. And it's like, where are you?
Where's your inner child going? Wait, hold on to this.
Because this is what keeps us safe.
This is what makes us feel worthy and loved and valued,
right? Oh my gosh, where are we out of
balance with our energy? Where are we giving too much?
What do you want to invite in? What are what are your
intentions for 2026, whether you're into the astrology of it
or not? Most of us have this idea around
this time of calling in something new.
And with that, we have to let certain things go like I think
about too. I'm always looking at how do I
optimize my life? And I've been really focused on,
you know, I know when my nutrition is optimized, which
includes being off of sugar, I just move through the world.
My sleep gets better. I'm more energized throughout
the day. I have longer energy throughout
the day. I have more capacity to take on
stress and manage it and regulate my nervous system when
I'm optimized in my body. And, and some of that looks like
I know where my optimal weight is.
And I can tell just from how I focused on my nutrition and
movement. Like I should be 15 lbs less
than I am right now. And you know, I, I, I don't say
that around weight. I say that around knowing your
body deeply and what is optimal. And yeah, I'm tagging a weight
to it because there's something when I'm, when my muscles are
toned and I'm not carrying as much, then I do move through the
world differently. So I'm looking at the things
like, I want to get back to that, right.
So what am I not doing? I'm eating so well.
OK, I'm eating a little too much sugar but not that much.
Like what is really going on? And I what I came to find out,
and this is just in the last week, my nervous system is an
OverDrive from this push of 0 for life which I've so enjoyed.
But I didn't realize I wasn't taking anything out of my
day-to-day. I was still exercising just as
much. I was still socializing just as
much and so my nervous system is out of balance and I I just
joined. I'm really excited about this.
An organization, a woman, I'm blanking on her name.
I'm so sorry, but I will put a link to the program in the show
notes because it's a company called Primal Trust.
Sorry, Primal Trust and it's all about really using like these
unexplained or chronic illnesses.
So I have Hashimoto. So she talks about chronic
illness, chronic fatigue, long COVID, just these these
illnesses that are tied to our nervous system.
And you know, if you've listened to my podcast before, go listen
to episode 10 that really talks a lot about my trauma history
with complex PTSD. And I've always known there's
still trauma in my body. I'm always working it out.
Even though I've done an incredible amount of healing
work, I'm still, I'm still understanding my nervous system
and how do I care for it and what are the limits and how do I
tone it and exercise my nervous system so I have more capacity
Because I I hit that capacity. I went overboard.
But now I'm in this beautiful like, Oh my gosh, what am I
calling in? I am calling in a really healthy
nervous system that has even more capacity than I do today.
Because now I'm not just like exercising on the pickleball
court or strength training. I'm doing more and more somatic
work to strengthen that and that feels really good.
And that is what is going to get me to ease.
And then we run into time, right?
Everyone talks about like, oh, I don't have time, I don't have
time. I get it, I get it.
We are being pulled in so many directions and I will be the
first to acknowledge when you are not self-employed and you
have someone else overseeing you and you work in a culture that
doesn't give you the space. For a little more expansiveness
and not this like stress grind that our culture is in.
I you have an even more challenging and then add to
that, if you have children, if you have a partner, if you have
animals, like whenever it's more than you, when you have others
influencing your life and your choices, it makes it that much
harder. I get it.
So it's about not focusing on well, I can't because my partner
is ex or I can't because my boss demands this.
How do you move into a solution space that is 1 going to
regulate your nervous system so that you can then two, get
clarity around what is no longer serving you that you are ready
to shed. So I know I just kind of like
threw a lot out there, but I here's the invitation.
Sign up for the next soul observation session, which is on
January 26th at 5:30 PM It's live, it's free.
The link will be in the show notes to join.
It's a one time registration and you're in for the series.
If you can't make that time, join the Cricket Fixes
membership so you can watch all of the replays.
And if you've heard me before I will and I'll post this in the
notes too. There is financial aid
available. If anyone comes to my site and
says I want that but I can't afford it, I have an option for
you. Even if it's zero cost.
Access means everything, so if you can register for the next
Soul observation session, create your list of things that you are
ready to let go of in this final shedding in the Year of the
Snake so that you can make space for what you are calling in in
the Year of the Fire Horse. We cannot take these things with
us. If you're feeling stuck, start
with your desired outcome first so then you can see what's
getting in the way of that. Even if you don't change it
right now, you're planting the seed to understand.
If you're feeling stuck with that exercise, I'm going to drop
us in to a guided meditation on Tuesday night at 5:30 PM so that
we can access your subconscious mind and get the wisdom that is
already within you. I can't wait to see you all
there. I can't wait to hear what you
have in store for your intentions moving forward, but
also what you're ready to release that is no longer
serving you and who you're becoming.
I'll see you then. If this episode resonated with
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