Episode 195. Your business called - she needs space. Lessons in flow from prenatal chiro care, fascia rolling, pruning & calendars.
Listen, just because it’s the second week of January, we aren’t yet jumping into full-on planning mode in my corner…yet. There’s still loads of space that needs to be cleared, and in this episode, I’ll share several fire lessons (if I do say so myself). Let’s take a glimpse at the examples…
Example #1: If you watch my IG stories, you know I am into face yoga. In class, we do this exercise known as fascia rolling. The benefit of fascia rolling (per the expert)? Creating space in the face for circulation.
Example #2: This one's for my fellow birth nerds in the room. Remember Webster certified chiropractic care during pregnancy? The first time I had this done (second pregnancy), the expert explained to me that while my baby wasn’t in optimal position, chiro adjustments weren’t to ‘get baby into position,’ or to put me into labor, per se. Rather, she explained that her job was to create space within the womb… so that the baby has space to potentially move into a better position.
Example #3: A bit of a preview to next week’s episode, this example is from that time (like three months ago) when we cleared a lot of ‘fluff’ off of a client’s calendar to avoid burnout. We made SPACE. The full circle moment for this one will come next week!
Example #4: This one comes from my sh*tty, albeit improving, gardening skills. More specifically, the time I pruned the heck out of my massive tomato plant in my tower garden. By cutting back unnecessary branches and roots, more nutrients are directed towards fruitful branches, resulting in healthier growth.
What better way to kickoff 2024, than with examples that hit? Signed, your example queen, Nichole Joy.
This year, I encourage you to create space, flow and to try on desire-setting, which feels so much more expansive than goal-setting.
Oh, and be sure to utilize the free energy healing transmission to clean up last year: https://www.nicholejoy.com/podcast/episode194
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Happy New Year, and welcome back. , last year, at this time, I did an episode, episode one 60. If you want to go back and listen on.
Alternatives to the Gregorian calendar. So January 1st, being your New Year. To recap, if you don't really feel that push New Year energy planning, hitting the ground running vibe, it's because we're still in winter. Okay? The northern hemisphere, we are still feeling like we are wintering and there's a lot of alternatives that make much more sense than the IRS rules of January 1st.
In my world, it's quite all right if you haven't yet done all the things for New Year that we see all over social media and that the whole world is preaching and the gyms are packed and ? what's far more important to me than working out on January 1st is how I love on my body, how I show up for my body and care for my body consistently [00:01:00] throughout the years, right?
And, with that same energy. What's more important to me than. Goal setting on January 1st is moving with intention in my business and in my life consistently throughout the years. Having said all of that, what I wanna offer you at the beginning of this new calendar year is a little bit of a different perspective and something for you to ponder for yourself.
So I was doing face yoga yesterday. I've been trying to do that more consistently again, right? I go through ebbs and flows as we do as humans. So I'm back into it. I had a lot of stress over the holiday season. I'm okay, but like I experienced a lot of stress. My skin was feeling it, so I'm back at loving and nurturing my skin.
So there's part of face yoga. By the way, I'm no face yoga expert, but there's part where you do this thing called fascia rolling. And if you've never seen what it looks like, I'm not gonna do it on my face because I just did my makeup and I don't wanna screw it up. But I'm gonna do it [00:02:00] down here 'cause I don't have makeup down here.
So effectively, fascia rolling is where you grab, and if you're listening to this, I'm sorry you won't be able to see it, but what I'm doing is taking my fingertips of my pointer and my thumb and . Grabbing my skin on my neck and rolling it gently, rolling it up. And then if I didn't have makeup on like five 30 in the morning, when I usually do this, I go all the way up the side of my face.
, when the instructor's describing fascia rolling, which feels glorious by the way, if you've never done it. She says that the reason we roll the fascia is to create space for your circulation to flow more easily from more circulation to the face.
Commercial break. Honey book. I've got to tell you about honey book. So I know what you might be thinking just because I have an online business and a podcast and I do a lot of this myself, but it must be super tech savvy. I'm not, I'm an elder millennial self taught on all things technology. And one of the things that I found incredibly difficult.
In terms of [00:03:00] technology is one of the big CRM systems. When I first got into this business, CRM is client relationship management, by the way, meaning you can send contracts and get virtual signatures. You can send invoices and lots of other things. The big one that rhymes with Topsado, but starts with a D.
I just could not get past the level of difficulty and complexity. So when somebody introduced HoneyBook to me, they had me at the option of Doola when you're entering your information and you enter the kind of services that you provide. So for several years now, I've been using HoneyBook as my client relationship management system, where I send contracts and invoices and manage those one on one private client relationships.
My affiliate link is in the show notes. I would love it if you'd give it a trial run and see if you'd like it. And if you do let me know if you have any questions as always reach out.
So it got me thinking about birth and pregnancy because like. How could I not? I'm a forever birth nerd and specifically about [00:04:00] Webster certified chiropractic care during pregnancy, and I remember when I was pregnant with my second, it was the first time I saw a chiropractor, and I remember having this conversation with her about what I had read about Webster certified chiropractors, and she said, we don't help you go into labor.
We don't help baby get into position. Like that's not my intention of making adjustments on you. And if you're in the birth world, you may have variations of beliefs about this. And no judge, hang in here with me for the example. He said, our intention, my intention in doing these adjustments on you is to create space in your womb.
So that your baby can move and ideally move into an optimal laboring position to create space for movement, for flow. During labor. 'cause when we're talking about a space the size of a womb, right, which is not super big, it's, it's big, [00:05:00] but it's tight. If you have a larger baby, of which I do grow larger babies.
So my womb space is tight at the end. So when the chiropractor makes the adjustment and she creates a little bit of space, I went to a woman. When she created just a little bit of space, it allowed for more movement, right? Because there was one point in my, near the end of my pregnancy with my second, where my baby was not in optimal position, and something like chiropractic care helped create space so that she could move.
Idea being, that creating space, whether it's via Webster certified chiropractic care during pregnancy to help allow for the baby to more easily move during labor,
or if we're creating space in your face via fascia rolling so that your circulation can more freely flow.
The other example that came to mind, I interviewed my client actually a couple days ago. The episode is gonna be coming out next week, we worked together a little more than half of the year.
Right. And we talked about how a few months in, she reached this [00:06:00] point where she was doing so much to work toward her goals we made a decision to look at her calendar and strip back some of the doing and test out what it would look like. To remove some of the do things on her calendar and on her list and create space
and have this more leaning back receptive testing period to see how she feels so that she doesn't burn herself out. Because she was working so hard, doing so much that she was very quickly burning out
So this was in October, and it was really cool to watch what happened in that month and the months following that. So starting in October is when we did this. And so October, November, December, what she experienced.
I'm actually gonna, , wait and let you watch the episode next week to hear , a real life example of what it looks like to create space. So for her, we did it on her calendar.
And for you, this might not look like clearing up your calendar. , but what does this look like for you? What [00:07:00] can you get rid of? What can you reduce? What can you trim back? ? The other example that I wanna think of this episode is like full of these glorious examples. So the other episode is my tomato plant on my tower garden.
So if you can following me on social media for any amount of time, you know that I'm a really crappy gardener. . I did not inherit the gene from my mother. I'm working on it though. So I got this tower garden like a little over two years ago, and I've had a few successes and quite a few flops. Right now my tomato plant is going wild on the tower garden.
I have found an optimal location and I kind of set it and forget it. I wandered out there a few months ago and saw this huge bush, and I'm like, what the hell is all this weeds? And when I got in and started looking around and poking around, I saw these little green cherry tomatoes beginning to form. So I post the picture to this tower garden Facebook group of the, I mean, the leaves were flowing off of this tower garden hanging all over the ground.
It was massive and it, it grew like a weeded. So some of the [00:08:00] advice from these much more experienced and better gardeners was to prune, which if you're not in the gardening world, is to cut back the . The branches and then to also trim the root system. So a tower garden operates with a pump inside of this, um, water reservoir at the bottom.
And with that size of a tomato plant, people were saying that there's very likely a ridiculously long root system that could blow your motor. It will completely wrap around the pump and blow out the pump. Because it's constantly pumping water through the machine. It's on a timer, so I think it's every 12 minutes.
It pumps a little bit of water through to the roots of all the plants. And I was kind of like, what? Like cut back these beautiful branches and these trees, there's flowers on some of them, which flowers turn into the tomatoes and cut off the roots. Like, isn't that gonna kill the plant? And it shows how little I know, right?
And I kind of felt like, I mean it, what's the worst that could happen? I've effed this up before. It's okay if IF [00:09:00] it up again. So I went in and took my scissors and I trimmed the. Out of this tree, out of this plant.
So here was the other thing. It was covering, the tower garden has layers, right? It was covering a broccoli sprout. It was not yet fruiting, but it was covering this broccoli thing. It was so big that the broccoli that was growing underneath was getting no sun because it was so shaded and. Interestingly, when I started to trim back and prune this tomato bush and the root system I cut, the root system that I cut out was larger than my hand.
I have a photo that I shared to social media. I'm gonna have to share it again when this episode airs. I cut all this stuff thinking this is all gonna die, and it was wrapping around the pump, it surely would've killed, I thought it would've blown the pump. So I ripped all this stuff out. I trimmed the plant all the way back, very careful not to cut the branches off that had the flowers, which would ultimately turn into tomatoes.
And when I did that, direct sun started to hit. The broccoli. And what I [00:10:00] noticed over the next few weeks is that. It produces so many more tomatoes and the broccoli plant has grown so large, so it was probably this big. And if you're listening, not watching, I would say five inches at the time that before I trimmed back the bush right now, a few months later, it hasn't yet given me broccoli, but it is, the leaves are larger than my hands.
Like if I put my two hands together and create almost like a bowl, that's what the broccoli is starting to look like.
I remember somebody telling me in that Facebook group, the root system is gonna kill your pump. You need to get rid of the root system. Also, you need to trim back. Part of why we're pruning for, I don't know if this is specific to the tower garden, um, . Or if this would work, if you're growing like in one of the raised plant beds, part of why they suggested pruning is because the water with the nutrients, right?
So the water and the reservoir, we put nutrients that I buy from Tower Garden into the water to [00:11:00] create an ideal pH scenario for the plants. So what they're saying is before pruning, a lot of those leaves and those branches that don't have flowers are taking up the nutrients.
They're sucking up the nutrients that could be going to the branches that have flowers, that will become tomatoes. So in pruning, I'm also helping more of the nutrients flow toward , the more fruitful branches.
And I felt like this was such a great example of what I'm talking about here with trimming back. And so as we are moving into this new calendar year whatever day you're listening to this. It doesn't have to be a New year thing. Anytime you're listening to this, look around your life, look around your business, look around any category that you feel stagnant,
. We are meant to be in movement. We are meant to be flowing. Expanding. And so if you, in any category of your life aren't moving, aren't expanding, , what can you release to create space for what you actually want and to create space for the energy to flow.
Whether that energy is nutrients in a tomato plant.
Or a baby in the [00:12:00] womb during labor
or circulation in your face via fascia rolling.
And the last episode that I put out at the end of 2023 included a healing transmission to help you create. Space and heal and remove the pieces, the energies from your business in 2023 to create space for your desires, right?
And that's very much what we're talking about. If we are calling in new desires, we need space for them to flow in. We need space for them to come in. If you want new clothes, you may need to create space in your closet. If my kids want new toys during the holidays, they may need to create space in their playroom.
And those are a few examples of the very physical and very practical examples of what I'm talking about, but this applies energetically as well. , my challenge to you is as you're thinking about your 2024 or desires, let's do that. I'm not a fan of resolutions. I am not sure how I feel about goal setting. , sometimes goal setting can feel a little bit limiting to me, but I can get behind desire setting. So as [00:13:00] you look at your 2024 desires, where can you create space? What are the things that you're moving into a new year, new season, or really any time that you can remove and clear, and if we're talking energetics, can you heal and you can utilize?
I have loads of expansion, principle healing meditations in my portals. If you're a member of my courses log in, there's probably a guided healing meditation that will help you create space for whatever the desire is.
And then if you want a little bit more information on . These principles go back to the next episode because I gave a lot of examples on how to create space in your physical environment, in your digital environment, and then I created that new tool for you to energetically create space from last year, And from this point moving forward, my recommendation is to find tools that speak to you, whether they're energy, healing modalities, or other types of tools to help you release [00:14:00] what you don't need and what isn't helpful to create a clear path for you to move forward toward your desires, whether that's with me or with somebody else.
I hope you enjoy this episode and I will see you soon.