Have you ever felt the pleasure of stretching your body, where there’s discomfort, but it feels so good to have all inches of you expand just beyond your usual state?

I’m on my yoga mat, my husband breathing next to me, leaning over one leg & raising one arm in the air.

I feel my skin stretch over my ribs. I feel the muscles in my calf call out. My bicep is working hard just to stay hanging overhead.

And it’s so pleasurable I almost want to cry.

I do yoga regularly, but after a bad neck injury last month I’d been moving and stretching much less, for fear of irritating my neck.

But now as I notice my stiffness, doing moves I’ve done hundreds of times, I am finding deep pleasure in the stretch.

I feel grounded, not in a rush, enjoying the little shifts in each pose. Comforted and amazed by the way my breath enables me to persevere. Keep stretching. Expand.

And- it feels like the perfect metaphor for where I’m at with my business.

I’m still doing things I’ve done before, so many times: Creating, sharing offers, talking to my audience, posting on social media, and selling coaching programs.

But there is a deep pleasure in how I’m stretching and expanding this time.

I feel so OF myself, IN my body, content to move slowly with compassion and without fear of hurting myself.

I’m not on fire to go as fast as possible. I’m deeply trusting that I know how to do these moves, and I’m more confident than ever doing them, even though I can feel the stretch.

The stretch in my business comes from charging the highest prices I’ve ever charged.

Boldly creating a simple yet challenging program that will deeply change my clients’ & my own way of being and working.

And for once, believing fully (even with whispers of “What if…"“) that it is going to work out for me the way I not only planned, but deserve & need to grow.

I am absolutely giddy with this kind of discomfort.

I am basking in the expansion.

I’m enjoying every minute stretching of myself, knowing it’s what I’ve chosen for myself.