So what does it mean to treat an emotion as a guide without allowing that emotion to completely take over?

It means to actually tap into your intuition.

And I think we have really overlooked the importance of the body because everyone thinks it's a movement tool and what it looks like in the mirror or in front of a partner.

But for a simple example, like most of us were put in shoes when we were very, very little.

And your feet are how you connect to the earth.

And if my feet are dumb because they've been in shoes and socks for so long, I don't have the sensory input from the earth.

My, my shins make a difference.

Right.

And I'm curious what methods you have to help cleanse that out or just to be more present or what practices you have in play for that.

Listening to that, like the through line that I'm feeling or pulling through that is courage, right? And that's why people enlist coaches like us to help them find their own courage.

Because it takes a lot of frigging courage to stand back up.

It's like that Theodore Roosevelt, you know, like marred, dusted and bloodied and battered and still getting up.

It's not just a simple matter of...

Being persistent, which is...

Or resilient is one of the most important sales skills, right? And just life skills is being resilient.

What are some of the practices and rituals that you have in your world that are consistent for you to ensure that you're staying creative? So we can give that to some of the listeners here.

Tell me, what was that point in time post-divorce when you realized the three W's, women, wine and work, weren't the answer to everything? And although you had gone down this track of realizing there was more that was needed on your own spiritual and mental health journey, that somatics might be a missing piece to the puzzle.

So after my divorce, that stretched into my business closing after COVID affected us and closed the business.

And I just realized I wasn't in the right place.

The signs and symptoms.

I'm an intelligent man.

I know I've always used my brain and I've run into roadblocks.

And I found that every roadblock I hit, I just went numb.

And so their curiosity will probably be around, how can I soften into my femininity and get a better balance back without feeling as though I'm losing control?