What Is This Here To Teach Me?

What Is This Here To Teach Me?

What if the question that changes everything isn’t “Why is this happening?” but “What is this here to teach me?” This week on Sunny Side Up, I’m sharing a deeply personal reflection inspired by a milestone I had been eagerly anticipating—having my cast removed after breaking my wrist. What I thought would feel like the finish line became a beautiful reminder that healing isn’t an event… it’s a relationship. Together, we’ll explore what happens when we stop rushing toward arrival and begin meeting life with curiosity instead of control. Because whether you’re navigating change, uncertainty, grief, growth, or standing on the edge of a new beginning, there is wisdom waiting for us when we’re willing to stay open. In this episode, I dive into: • Why we so often postpone living while waiting to “arrive” • The transformative question: What is this here to teach me? • How curiosity creates space where judgment cannot survive • The neuroscience of growth and our brain’s remarkable capacity to keep evolving • Why your “brace” may look different than mine—and how to meet it with greater compassion • Learning to surf life’s waves instead of trying to control the ocean Maybe life isn’t asking us to get everything right. Maybe it’s simply asking us to stay teachable. Come listen in, and if this conversation meets you where you are, I’d love for you to share it with someone who might need this reminder today. 🌞

Life is Always Speaking: Are We Available Enough to Listen

The most meaningful moments of our lives rarely announce themselves. More often, they arrive quietly, waiting for us to notice. In this week’s episode of Sunny Side Up, I’m reflecting on an unexpected season of slowing down after fracturing my wrist—and the profound gifts that have emerged in the pause. Together, we’ll explore The Sacred Ordinary: the practice of noticing, the quiet power of wonder, and how life begins to feel richer when we become fully available to the moment we’re already living. In this episode, I dive into: • Why our lives become what we practice noticing • How slowing down can deepen healing, trust, and presence • The neuroscience of attention, awe, and why wonder transforms us • Why witnessing is one of the purest expressions of love • Finding the sacred in the beautifully ordinary moments we so often overlook Nothing becomes sacred because it’s extraordinary. It becomes sacred because we finally give it our full attention. Come listen in—and if this conversation inspires you to pause, look up, and notice the beauty that’s already here, I’d love for you to share it with someone who could use this reminder today. With big warm love, Jessie May 🌞

Uncovering the Cost of What You Value

Some words don’t just describe our lives—they determine them. Value is one of those words. This week, I’m unpacking the hidden systems of valuation that influence where our attention goes, how we make decisions, and what we come to believe is worthy of our time, energy, and love. Inspired by an unexpected season of slowing down, this conversation is an invitation to reconsider the inherited beliefs that may no longer belong to you. In this episode, I dive into: • How the brain continually assigns value to our experiences. • The beliefs we inherit about worth, productivity, and success. • Three layers of value that influence the way we live. • Why attention may be our most precious currency. • Reflection questions to help you reevaluate what truly matters. “The unexamined values quietly become the unexamined life.” If this episode speaks to you, I’d love for you to share it with someone who might be in a season of reevaluating what matters most. And if you’re enjoying Sunny Side Up, a rating or review helps this conversation reach more hearts

Finding Grace in the Unexpected: A Personal Reflection

This week’s episode is a little different. Following an unexpected wrist fracture that brought my upcoming travels, events, and carefully arranged calendar to a sudden halt, I found myself being called into a much deeper surrender. What began as an unwelcome interruption became an invitation to trust more fully and open to the grace, support, and unexpected angels that have appeared along the way. In this deeply personal reflection, shared from the midst of this unexpected season, I explore what happens when life asks us to relate to time in a different way. Drawing on the ancient distinction between Chronos—the world of schedules and timelines—and Kairos—the sacred space where grace, synchronicity, and deeper wisdom can emerge—I share some of the insights, tenderness, and miracles that have found me in the pause. As we stand on the threshold of a new season, perhaps we are being invited to soften our grip, listen more deeply, and remember that life isn’t a race to be won, but a mystery to be lived. After all, as Montreal’s own Leonard Cohen so beautifully reminded us, “There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” Maybe what feels like an interruption is actually an invitation. And maybe something beautiful is waiting to emerge. With big warm love, Jessie May

Listening for Alignment: Learning to Trust What Feels True

What if alignment isn’t something you create, but something you learn to hear? In today’s episode, we’re exploring the subtle but powerful distinction between effort and force, and what it means to listen for alignment in a world that constantly asks us to push harder. Together, we’ll unpack the difference between the discomfort that accompanies growth and the exhaustion that comes from betraying ourselves, and how cultivating deeper listening can guide us back to what is truly ours to hold. In this episode, I dive into: • The difference between aligned effort and forcing • Why alignment isn’t the same as ease • How overfunctioning and self-abandonment can masquerade as strength • The questions that help us discern what is truly ours to carry • Learning to loosen our grip and partner with life rather than control it • Why listening may be more important than pushing What if life isn’t asking you to push harder. Maybe it’s inviting you to listen more deeply. Come listen in — and if this conversation speaks to you, share it with someone who could use a reminder that not everything meaningful requires force, and that sometimes the deepest wisdom arrives when we soften enough to hear it. ☀️