I woke up this morning feeling a little off. Like emotionally… some variety of funk.
So my brain went to work on problem solving why I felt this way - it paraded a series of thoughts through my noggin that might explain why I felt off.
And I bet you can guess that these thoughts were not uplifting thoughts.
Because when you feel a little funk, you aren’t trying to explain it with thoughts like: What a beautiful sunny spring day! I can’t wait to see my clients today! My sweet Ruby May comes home tomorrow!
Nope. My brain was looking for bad thoughts that could explain a bad feeling. My brain was parading what’s not quite right in my world, trying them all on to see if they fit this emotion I was feeling.
I’m not alone in this right? You’ve been there too?
I know from experience that my brain WILL be able to latch onto something displeasing in my world to explain this displeasing feeling. No one has a perfect life - we can all find something displeasing.
And then my brain will really dig into this explanation and chew on it like a dog with a bone. I mean really get into it!
And then this feeling will grow. And then my brain is like: YEAH GIRL! You found the source! What a great problem-solver you are! Let’s really obsess now!
And then those yucky thoughts will further feed that slightly yucky feeling and it will grow and then I’m in a spiral of even worse thoughts and feelings, circling the drain.
That sucks.
So here’s what I did instead:
I asked my guides: (I did this by writing it in my journal) If there is something causing this feeling that I need to tend to, would you please make it obvious because I’m not going to let my brain search for it.
And then I wrote something that uplifted me. It started with “I get to live in this gorgeous house that is so cool…” and that had me feeling so good that I just kept writing.
And that lead me to how amazing my husband is and what a rare gift it is to feel the way I feel about him.
And that lead me into writing about how I get to do my dream job!
It was an upward spiral instead of the one I was in, circling the drain.
In pretty short order I realized that my thoughts and emotions had totally shifted.
Also: my guides DID give me something that I needed to tend to - some mundane human thing that I hate doing that I was procrastinating. It was a direct message I got without having to think about it.
Disclaimer: This is NOT just positive thinking. Not “toxic positivity”, as they say these days. It’s not bypassing the root of a problem. There is nuance in this so if you have questions about it, or you’re feeling skeptical, or saying “yeah, but…” then schedule a coaching session and we can walk through the nuance for you.
This is an example of the mind-body connection. How our thoughts create emotions, or how our emotions create thoughts. It can go both ways.
If that’s an interesting concept to you and you’re in the Indy area, you should come to the Mind-Body Connection workshop I’m doing with fascia expert Ashley Dirks on May 21 (2026)!
We’re going to get into this very formula and how to use it to feel better.
Ashley is going to add another dimension to this equation: where it all sits in your physical body. Because it does. And we’ll get on the mat and use tools to move it all through in a physical way.
We need lots of tools in our toolbox to navigate this human experience.
If you can’t make it to the workshop but want to explore how to shift that funk you find yourself in, you can schedule a coaching session with me either in-person in Indy or on Zoom. You don’t have to sit in the suffering.