I spent most of my life disconnected from my body. Ask me a decade ago, “what is embodiment?” and I’d have cringed. Sounds like unshaved armpits and tie-dye, I’d have said, and moved on. Then my ex told me I walked “too stiff,” and the meaning of embodiment suddenly felt a little closer to home….
I’m writing this post from my cloud couch in Miami Beach, snuggled up on a rainy spring afternoon, watching the breeze gently move the palm trees just outside my windows. I exercised earlier at the studio across the street from my building, and now I can faintly hear the city carrying on beneath me. It’s…
I used to follow this skincare influencer. She had the kind of smooth, pearly white skin that made her look almost porcelain and she was constantly popping up on my feed. What drew me in wasn’t just her skin, though. It was the way she spoke. She sounded intelligent, confident and deeply knowledgeable about all…
I’m sitting in the chair at the salon, praying that by some miracle the woman about to cut my hair actually knows what she’s doing. It’s my first time with her… an exasperated decision I made after learning that yet another hairstylist I’d grown to love was leaving the city. When I walked in, she…
The year after my divorce, every time I ran into someone I knew, they’d say some version of the same thing. “Wow, Candis. The glow-up is real.” They weren’t wrong. With newfound time and single-girl freedom on my side, I’d befriended the StairMaster, started drinking a gallon of water a day, and began casually experimenting…
Beauty sleep is so underrated. It’s easy to take it for granted when you fall asleep effortlessly and stay out cold through the night. When your head hits the pillow and you miraculously wake up eight hours later without interruption. You don’t think twice about it. You assume it’s normal and it’ll always be there….
Hi, I’m Candis. I’m a Life Coach and Embodiment Teacher for women. I share stories of love, healing, and the transformative power of stillness. Join me in slowing down, coming home to the body, and reclaiming life, one day at a time.
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