tl;dr: BOOST Your Practice is a gamified four-week creative accountability program designed to support the ongoing hygiene of integration. It helps you align your body, mind, and creative life through daily habits and community support. We start September 8.

To do anything well, you have to be aligned with yourself:

Grounded in Mindfulness
Nourished by What You Eat
Supported by Exercise & Movement
Anchored in a Structure that Serves Your Most Creative Self

We are what we frequently do.

When you sign up to BOOST Your Practice you make a commitment to yourself and to a cohort of people. You become accountable in your commitment to practice.

Because no one can do it alone.

BOOST is a gamified process. Which makes it a lot of fun!

And it is a beautiful way to be in community together.

BOOST Your Practice is one of our most popular programs. Which is why people keep coming back.

You can learn more about it and register here.

We start September 8.

BOOST as Integration

BOOST isn’t just about habits. It’s about integration. That’s what I want to explore today.

Tuesday, the love of my life, not the day of the week, just released a Rooted in Light Podcast episode where she interviews me on the topic of integration. Check it out. I think you'll enjoy it.

Here is a simple definition that we have been working with in our Integration Circles:

Integration is the ongoing practice of digesting, understanding, and embodying an experience of insight. It involves reflecting on the experience, identifying any teachings or revelations, and taking practical, intentional steps to align one’s behavior, relationships, and worldview with what is being learned.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. And I think this image is a great way to make the connection between BOOST and Integration.

My understanding is that the right attribution for this image is to Emily McGovern of *Emily’s Cartoons*. And while we're talking nuns, I want to take a moment to shout out our own Brittany Koteles, Evolutionary Leadership Cohort of 2025 and a leader of Land Justice Futures doing some of the most beautiful and visionary repair work with nuns that I have personally heard about.

An Economy of Experience

Most of you know that my work aims to generate the experience of deep connection and insight. I am blessed to guide and steward what many people describe as peak experiences. These experiences are meant to propel the process of transformation, of healing, awakening and liberation.

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Experiences like these are pivotal to our walk upon this earth. They pierce into the nature of reality. And they reveal our own true nature.

But we happen to be alive through late stage capitalism. We are overwhelmed with stuff, our homes are full of things we do not use. And since “more stuff” is not giving us the kick we are used to, we have entered into an economy of experience. Capitalism commodifies experience. It makes it so that we try to acquire, collect, and post experiences on social media. We turn moments of radiance into content.

Look, don’t get me wrong. I think it’s great to share about the wonders we’ve experienced. I just also think we should be aware of the way our economy wants to turn experience into currency instead of gift.

I want to be very clear. I am a “seven” on the enneagram. Also known as “the enthusiast.” My personality archetype is obsessed with collecting experiences. I spend so much time talking about integration because I spent too much time swinging from one peak experience to the next. One ecstatic revelation after another without:

Taking practical, intentional steps to align one’s behavior, relationships, and worldview with what is being learned.

But taking these practical steps is very hard to do when we are trying to sort things out in our own heads. When we think it is just a matter of getting a new understanding and changing our minds about something. Or just a matter of discipline and will.

There can be a big gap between what we think we believe and what we actually embody.

The Hygiene of Integration

BOOST Your Practice is a holistic program for the ongoing hygiene of integration. It offers us a practical set of steps for aligning our behavior, our relationships, and our worldview with what we are learning about what truly matters.

BOOST is a four-week container designed to support your preferred mindfulness practice, from wherever you find yourself right now. It supports your health and embodiment by helping you align with the circadian rhythm. You get to pursue whichever practice of healthy eating is good for you right now. And to commit to regularly moving your body in a way that you find enlivening.

All of this alignment is in service of your creative practice. When you BOOST you commit to protecting 45 minutes to an hour of your day so that you can dedicate it to work that flows from you. Not to meet somebody else’s demands.

It can be a passion project. Or a side hustle you’ve been dreaming up.
Or you can draw, sing, strum the guitar. Write poetry or essays. Make pottery, paint, or doodle. Work on that novel that’s been burning inside you forever.
It does not matter what it is - it just has to be creative and it has to flow from you.

I have a sticky note on my desktop that says: “pay yourself first.” This is good financial advice. And I do not follow it so well when it comes to money. But it is also excellent advice for your creative work. When I write this newsletter, I am paying myself first. I am doing something that flows from me and that I find to be creative. Every workday that I start by writing is a day where I can say, "Today, I did at least one thing in service of the creative life force."

In her book, Beyond Anxiety: Curiosity, Creativity, and Finding your Life's Purpose, Martha Beck eloquently argues that the antidote to the anxiety spiral that consumes so much of our days is actually found in making ourselves available for a creativity spiral.

The ecstatic experience is actually an experience of Eros, the creative, life-giving force that enlivens the Universe itself.

When we BOOST our practice we are aligning ourselves with that Life Force.

And this is exactly what it means to embody our integration.

Join Us! We start September 8.

While I have your attention I want to mention a beautiful offering coming from Heddy Nam and Steph de Wolfe. Steph was part of BOOST back in January, and Heddy was a very special part of our Facilitators’ Coaching Cohort.

Their program, Finding our Way, was created to offer a supportive space for politicized BIPOC changemakers to pause and reorient themselves in what they need to “find their way” in uncertain times.

“It's not easy to be grounded in these times, but that grounding in what matters is everything.”

BOOST Your Practice IS Integration