How to make the most of these 40 days / housekeeping!
40 EM Spring 2021:
Welcome Guide
You made it! We made it! Here we are.
Here are my Top 10 Tips for 40 EM Success:
Each morning you’ll get an email from me containing that day’s practice. A practice is any solo, single-tasking pause in the midst of a busy day to come back to yourself. If you have 5 minutes, simply read the email and let that be enough. If you have more time, there will always be more material (videos, recordings, questions for reflection) in the email for you engage with and practice. These daily emails are the essential building blocks of 40 Early Mornings.
When you practice each day (in other words, “your early morning”) is up to you. Some of you might set your alarm an extra 20 minutes early to fully engage in each day’s content. Some of you might even save the daily emails to practice in the evenings before bed. Some of you will carve out time in between. Take a look at the flow of your day and fold this into a place that works for you. Having trouble? Send me an email & we’ll figure it out together. I got you.
Where you practice each day is up to you too. Want to read the emails and listen to the daily meditations in bed? Awesome. Or perhaps you create a quiet corner of your bedroom or living room for yourself. For more tips on how to set up your practice space, read this post and watch the videos. (Then comment with a picture of your practice space! I can’t wait to see it!)
You can visit our Member Site any time you’d like. Bookmark the Member Site home page. Don’t worry, you’ll have a link to it in each morning’s email, it’s just not findable / searchable on my regular old website. This space is just for us! This is where you can return to again and again to find the growing archive of all the 40 Early Mornings content as it unfolds, day by day. And the place where you can come to visit any time in the next 6 months to revisit the content and refresh your practice. On the Member Site home page, you’ll find links to :
The Welcome Guide (that’s where you are now!)
The Daily Email Archive: A gradually growing library of our daily emails — so you can have them all in one place to refer back to, to have a record of our daily conversations and practice, and to keep your inbox spacious and uncluttered :) Hint, search { 40EM } in your inbox, which is in the title of each email to find things there too :)
The Video + Convo Archive with new content released every 10 days, for each of our 4 themes: Arrive, Dissolve, Ignite, & Sustain — this includes the 4 longer audio conversations (the podcast-like lecture to explore each theme) and yoga videos to embody each of our 4 themes. I’ll also put the recordings to each of our weekly, live meetups there in case you miss it or want to revisit it.
The Calendar for Spring 2021 — the date for each of our days and reminders of when our weekly, live meetups are each week (they gently rotate between Fri, Sat, and Sun in the hopes of catching a variety of you at least for one of the sessions!).
The One-on-One Sign Up Form + Questionnaire — grab a spot for your private, 60-minute one-on-one coaching session, where we refine together what 40 Early Mornings will be, just for you!
The Resource / Dive Deeper Page — a growing list of recommendations for you, from playlists for your yoga or meditation practices to book lists and other places you might like to explore. Recommendations? Amazing, send them my way!
Take a look at The Calendar and mark your own with our live, group meetings each week. Here’s the zoom link for all of them: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86057668975?pwd=R1M2WU1mOTdlbnFpRlRnMmhJeWJZQT09(I’ll also send it to you in the morning email on days we meet.
Sign up for your one-on-one — this is where we customize the practice tools for you, address your unique challenges and utilize your personal strengths to create exactly what YOU need to meet this moment.
You can trust this unfolding, one day, one practice at a time. This program will gradually build. If all you do is open your email each day, you will get the tools you need. What you need is here. You can show up exactly as you are - angry, mad, calm, sad, scattered. It’s all good. And you can take it all at your own pace. You may stay with one day’s content, one question or idea or reading or video for as long as you need to. Trust you won’t miss a thing and you’ll engage with what you need to when you can.
Make a commitment — write it down, hang it where you can see it, and come back to your intention often: “I, _______________ , hereby commit to 40 days of showing up for myself, my work, and my life in my daily practice because I believe….” And leave a comment in Day 1’s post with your intention. “Saying it out loud” has so much power!
Every 10 days, we move through a new theme to explore. These themes map and mark any cycle of transformation, which is what we’re up to here in 40 Early Mornings as we move through these 40 days of practice together:
Days 1-10: ARRIVE
Days 11-20: DISSOLVE
Days 21-30: IGNITE
Days 31-40: SUSTAIN
Check the Video + Convo Archive to explore the blueprint content for each theme, as its released.
Need extra support or just want to connect more deeply with others in our gorgeous group? Request a 40EM Buddy here.
Questions? comments? Simply hit reply to one of the emails. It is always me on the other side. I am both teacher and the tech support! You can come to me with anything you might need. And, you can ask me anything. I’ll do my best to help you get what you need.
I am so happy you’re here. So much more to come and welcome, welcome!
Catherine
p.s. In years’ past, I’ve posted daily to a private instagram page, but this year part of MY own practice is taking a big old break from social media. So the best way to engage, bring this all to life, and connect this time around will be …
posting comments to each day’s emails — create conversation and support each other there!
doing your best to make it to the live weekly gatherings — at least one if you can! mark your calendar!
request a 40EM Buddy here — accountability + connection — does it get better than that?!
you can always, always hit reply to each day’s email — it’s JUST me on the other side!