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📖This one breath story holds a warning. Did you catch it?

As we (re)learn to create from safety, a one breath story is an ideal place to dive deep — “because every breath is a life lived in and of itself” — and still come up for air. Can you bring an idea, an entire world, to life in a single exhale? A challenge so beautiful in its impossibility, yet impossible to fail. Because you live that one breath (whatever the words) as YOUR story when you read and share — the most delicious catch-22! And to write one breath you have all the time in the world. Focus on your intention. Let you imagination wander. Relax your body and breathe into your “home creative frequency” (a Triple Gratitude Breath does wonders). Filter through your focus, gather the words, now pick and sort and play!

Does your past, your story, show you the warning in my one breath about a bird and a fence? Depends if you’ve been the bird, the fence, or the struggle of both in the same body. Just follow the 💩 lol. The freedom of the one breath story club is the infinite space that flows in and around the initial idea/emotion. Join the club! Dare a playful life! Do the story!

Good luck creating from fight or flight! If you do manage to squeeze something out while every motivation is sprinting wildly for the exit, kudos to you. Underneath a nervous system on fire is a lost permission, raw and unearned, a birthright: to create from safety. To play!

What is your “home creative frequency?” So many words exist to name the space beyond them: wholeness, yoga, grounded, postcoital (oops), centred, peace, bliss. Your home creative frequency is your personal play space. Practice is the path! Tools like the Triple Gratitude Breath (30 second nervous system reset) and Create From Safety Hunts are fun and neurologically efficient ways to connect/align your body, environment, and inner world, because ultimately, you’re retraining your whole system. This is hardcore love.

The payoff? I have another name for my own home creative frequency… “Playful Genius.” And I’m not apologizing. Our nervous systems care about survival. And if I was on a desert island, being a playful genius would be my most honest chance at life. So there.

Your next breath holds every possibility and permission🌬️Make it a gift to self with a gratitude breath. This powerful tool combines multiple proven principles into an incredibly efficient holistic grounding practice. Bonus: repeat three times for a quick 30 second nervous system reset. Enjoy!

🌬️The Gratitude Breath

1. Strong double nose inhale as you

2. Full mouth exhale, releasing body tension, while focusing attention on (add saying/visualizing/drawing to boost impact), “This breath I’m grateful for ______”

In our age of overwhelm, tools like these can really help us recenter and regulate ourselves. And you can always afford, always, to take one breath for yourself. It’s the best place to start… “Because every breath is a life lived in and of itself.”