Grounded is the New Sexy

Everything Is Moving Home

A quick voice note before the next episode drops.   I'm moving Grounded is the New Sexy over to Substack — and I wanted to tell you personally why I'm genuinely excited about it. Everything I've been building is coming together in one place. The podcast, the practices, the paintings, the writing. One real home where it all belongs together- and more value for you. The next episode will be waiting for you there.   Come find me on Substack [https://luminoussanctuary.substack.com] — subscribing is completely free. 🌿

Coming Home To Yourself

Something has been quietly returning to me lately. The pull toward things I loved before the world got loud. Before I learned to be strategic about everything. Before enjoyment became something I had to earn. Reading. Painting just to move paint around with my hands. Swimming. Sunday mornings with nowhere to be. And I realized: this is what it feels like when your nervous system finally exhales.   This episode is about that return. About what gets in the way of it. About why you genuinely cannot hear yourself when your body is running on survival mode. And about what coming home to yourself actually feels like — not as a concept, but as something lived in ordinary, quiet, real moments. There's a short meditation to close with. Come as you are. 🌿   Grounded is the New Sexy is not a podcast about becoming better. It is a space for coming alive. Each episode is an invitation into a different quality of contact — with your body, your creativity, your nervous system, your inner world, and the intelligence moving through your life. Here, grounding is not about shrinking, coping, or stabilizing for survival. It is about inhabiting yourself so fully that your life begins to reorganize around what is true. Returning you to the place where your choices become simpler, your creativity becomes cleaner, and your life begins to move from a deeper intelligence than effort. Stay Connected / Go Deeper If this episode resonated with you, you’re warmly invited to continue the conversation beyond the podcast.   ✨Free meditation here [https://open.substack.com/pub/luminoussanctuary/p/a-still-place-you-can-trust?r=5pea5r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web]- "A Still Place You Can Trust" This offering is a doorway into a slower, more honest way of living- one rooted in presence, trust, and relationship with yourself.   ✨ Luminous Sanctuary [https://luminoussanctuary.substack.com/] — my space on Substack This is where I share grounded reflections, practices, and deeper conversations about embodiment, creativity, and living in alignment. There’s a free space to enter, and paid layers for those who want to go deeper at their own pace.   🎨 Artwork & Offerings [https://www.christylittleartist.com/]   You can explore my artwork and current offerings at christylittleartist.com [http://christylittleartist.com/], where everything I create lives as an extension of this same frequency — slow, intentional, and embodied.   🎧 Subscribe & Share If you enjoy the show, subscribing helps new episodes find you when you need them. And sharing an episode with someone you love is one of the most meaningful ways to support this work.

Grounding the Passion So It Doesn’t Burn Us Out

That cycle where something lights up inside and you throw everything at it until you're completely flat? I've lived that more times than I can count. Passion flares. Sprint. Burn out. Retreat. Feel behind. Push harder. Repeat. This episode is about what I'm trying instead. Grounding the passion so it can burn steady instead of explosive. Here are the creative anchors to help retrain yourself to develop a calm neutral state. [https://open.substack.com/pub/luminoussanctuary/p/creative-anchors?r=5pea5r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true]   Grounded is the New Sexy is not a podcast about becoming better. It is a space for coming alive. Each episode is an invitation into a different quality of contact — with your body, your creativity, your nervous system, your inner world, and the intelligence moving through your life. Here, grounding is not about shrinking, coping, or stabilizing for survival. It is about inhabiting yourself so fully that your life begins to reorganize around what is true. These conversations explore what happens when we stop performing healing, success, or spirituality — and begin living from a deeper internal coherence.   This is not content to consume. It is a space to enter.   The throughline is always the same: Returning you to the place where your choices become simpler, your creativity becomes cleaner, and your life begins to move from a deeper intelligence than effort. Grounded is the New Sexy is for creatives, visionaries, and sensitive systems who are done chasing expansion — and ready to let aliveness reorganize them from the inside out.   Stay Connected / Go Deeper If this episode resonated with you, you’re warmly invited to continue the conversation beyond the podcast.   ✨Free meditation here [https://open.substack.com/pub/luminoussanctuary/p/a-still-place-you-can-trust?r=5pea5r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web]- "A Still Place You Can Trust" This offering is a doorway into a slower, more honest way of living- one rooted in presence, trust, and relationship with yourself.   ✨ Luminous Sanctuary [https://luminoussanctuary.substack.com/] — my space on Substack This is where I share grounded reflections, practices, and deeper conversations about embodiment, creativity, and living in alignment. There’s a free space to enter, and paid layers for those who want to go deeper at their own pace.   🎨 Artwork & Offerings [https://www.christylittleartist.com/]You can explore my artwork and current offerings at christylittleartist.com [http://christylittleartist.com/], where everything I create lives as an extension of this same frequency — slow, intentional, and embodied.   🎧 Subscribe & Share If you enjoy the show, subscribing helps new episodes find you when you need them. And sharing an episode with someone you love is one of the most meaningful ways to support this work.

When the Overwhelm Hits… and the Kitchen Calls

When overwhelm rises, my body still reaches for scrolling or eating — it’s been my fastest comfort for years. But lately I’m noticing and trying other little ways to meet the feeling: hand on heart, cold water on wrists, slow sway, weighted blanket. This episode is just sharing what’s helping me soften the urge without numbing it.   Grounded is the New Sexy is not a podcast about becoming better. It is a space for coming alive. Each episode is an invitation into a different quality of contact — with your body, your creativity, your nervous system, your inner world, and the intelligence moving through your life. Here, grounding is not about shrinking, coping, or stabilizing for survival. It is about inhabiting yourself so fully that your life begins to reorganize around what is true.   Grounded is the New Sexy is for creatives, visionaries, and sensitive systems who are done chasing expansion — and ready to let aliveness reorganize them from the inside out.    Here is the grounded list of tools [https://open.substack.com/pub/luminoussanctuary/p/tools-to-ease-overwhelm?r=5pea5r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true] from this episode to assist with feelings of overwhelm.   Stay Connected / Go Deeper If this episode resonated with you, you’re warmly invited to continue the conversation beyond the podcast.   ✨Free meditation here [https://open.substack.com/pub/luminoussanctuary/p/a-still-place-you-can-trust?r=5pea5r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web]- "A Still Place You Can Trust" This offering is a doorway into a slower, more honest way of living- one rooted in presence, trust, and relationship with yourself.   ✨ Luminous Sanctuary [https://luminoussanctuary.substack.com/] — my space on Substack This is where I share grounded reflections, practices, and deeper conversations about embodiment, creativity, and living in alignment. There’s a free space to enter, and paid layers for those who want to go deeper at their own pace.   🎨 Artwork & Offerings [https://www.christylittleartist.com/]You can explore my artwork and current offerings at christylittleartist.com [http://christylittleartist.com/], where everything I create lives as an extension of this same frequency — slow, intentional, and embodied.   🎧 Subscribe & Share If you enjoy the show, subscribing helps new episodes find you when you need them. And sharing an episode with someone you love is one of the most meaningful ways to support this work.

The Quiet Power of Small Yeses

I’ve been learning that real change doesn’t always come from big leaps — sometimes it’s just one small, quiet “yes” at a time. This episode is me thinking out loud about how to listen for those tiny yeses in the body (the softening, the warmth, the little flutter) instead of the mind’s urgent “I should.” Just a gentle conversation about trusting the small moments, plus a short check-in to feel your own next yes right now.   Grounded is the New Sexy is not a podcast about becoming better. It is a space for coming alive. Each episode is an invitation into a different quality of contact — with your body, your creativity, your nervous system, your inner world, and the intelligence moving through your life.   Here, grounding is not about shrinking, coping, or stabilizing for survival. It is about inhabiting yourself so fully that your life begins to reorganize around what is true. These conversations explore what happens when we stop performing healing, success, or spirituality — and begin living from a deeper internal coherence. This is not content to consume. It is a space to enter- Returning you to the place where your choices become simpler, your creativity becomes cleaner, and your life begins to move from a deeper intelligence than effort.   Grounded is the New Sexy is for creatives, visionaries, and sensitive systems who are done chasing expansion — and ready to let aliveness reorganize them from the inside out.   Stay Connected / Go Deeper If this episode resonated with you, you’re warmly invited to continue the conversation beyond the podcast.   ✨Free meditation here [https://open.substack.com/pub/luminoussanctuary/p/a-still-place-you-can-trust?r=5pea5r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web]- "A Still Place You Can Trust" This offering is a doorway into a slower, more honest way of living- one rooted in presence, trust, and relationship with yourself.   ✨ Luminous Sanctuary [https://luminoussanctuary.substack.com/] — my space on Substack This is where I share grounded reflections, practices, and deeper conversations about embodiment, creativity, and living in alignment. There’s a free space to enter, and paid layers for those who want to go deeper at their own pace.   🎨 Artwork & Offerings [https://www.christylittleartist.com/]You can explore my artwork and current offerings at christylittleartist.com [http://christylittleartist.com/], where everything I create lives as an extension of this same frequency — slow, intentional, and embodied.   🎧 Subscribe & Share If you enjoy the show, subscribing helps new episodes find you when you need them. And sharing an episode with someone you love is one of the most meaningful ways to support this work.