October Invitation

Day 1: How am I?

Pause and check in with yourself…

Reflection questions

  • How are you feeling this morning? Is there anything on your heart or mind?

  • Is there something you're doing that you don't want to do? Can you simplify?

  • How can you be kind to yourself right now?

Day 2: Watch Fall

Day 3: Priority List

Listen to Joy read the poem, “Priority List”…

Reflection questions

  • Can you simplify your schedule today, so you can "do the thing that matters most"?

  • Do you have unrealistic expectations about what joy or ease or love looks like? Can you let go of those expectations today?

Day 4: Perspective

Day 5: Prioritize Fall Fun

Reflection questions

  • What experiences do you positively associate with fall? (For example, taking a hike, picking apples, decorating for Halloween.) List everything you can think of.

  • Reread your list and notice which parts of fall bring you most alive (pay attention to your body and heart responses).

  • Choose two autumn experiences that feel most important.

  • Look at your calendar and schedule these two fall events. Create enough space to fully enjoy them. (Don't cram them in between other things.)

Reflection questions

  • What can you remove from your to-do list?

  • What are you doing that you don't need to do?

  • What is it time to let go of?

Day 8: News Freeze

Day 9: Start your day with beauty (and light!)

Day 10: Wild Geese

Listen to Joy read the poem…

Pause and listen to a meditation…

Day 11: Creating Space

Reflection questions

  • Where do you most need a “clearing in the dense forest of your life”? What calls to you first?

  • What blocks your sense of space? What gets in the way?

  • What opens your sense of space? Who or what cultivates a clearing?

  • Remember: Meaningful change happens with small steps. What’s one small step you can take toward a clearing? 

Day 15: Open a window

Day 17: Permission to feel it all

Listen to Joy read the poem…

Listen to a short meditation…

Day 20: Sympathetic Joy

day 24: radical gratitude spell

Listen to Joy read the poem…

Listen to a short meditation…

Day 27: Find balance

Day 28: Just Be

Day 30: Look at the sky

Day 31: Shavasana

Listen to Joy read the poem…

pause and breathe