✨ Bringing Inner Alignment Into Real Life (Yep… Even While momming “hard-core”) ✨
Okay… so here’s the thing many people don’t realize:
Healing isn’t something that only happens on your yoga mat. Or in session. Or when you finally get a quiet Sunday morning (lol… if that ever happens).
It happens in the middle of LIFE.
Like… real life.
The messy, noisy, running-around life.
Honestly? Some of my best “Inner Alignment” moments happen while I’m Instacart shopping or momming “hard core”. Because if this work doesn’t help us when we’re overwhelmed in Target at 4pm… then what are we even doing? 😂
So here’s how I actually use this work — like in the wild — when I’m exhausted, rushing, overstimulated, or just trying to find the organic raspberries at 8:30pm because I just found out my kids forgot to tell me we’re out of fruit.
1. The Pause (aka my secret weapon)
I swear, the tiniest pause will save your sanity.
Sometimes it’s literally THREE breaths.
I’ll be mid-aisle, cart halfway blocking someone, kids texting me about forgotten water bottles, and I just… pause.
Inhale.
Exhale. Repeat.
Feel my feet.
Let my shoulders drop.
It’s not fancy.
But my whole nervous system goes, “Okay… we’re good.”
I use this one ALL THE TIME…because it’s ALWAYS there with you.
2. Choosing my energy before I go in somewhere
Grocery stores? Chaotic.
After-school pick-up? A whole vortex of other people’s energy.
Hockey games? Honestly so fun but still… a lot of humans. 😂
So before I walk in, I energetically set my energy.
Usually something like:
“Stay in your own lane, Misty. Don’t pick up everyone else’s stuff.”
Honestly that sentence alone keeps me from absorbing the anxiety of the entire produce section.
3. Nervous system first. Everything else second.
This is huge.
When I’m rushing — which, let’s be honest, is most days — my body jumps into survival mode without asking me.
So now, I try to catch it.
If I notice myself speed-walking like I’m in an Olympic race…
or getting snappy…
or my brain spinning…
I stop for a second and tell my body:
“Hey. You’re safe. We’re good.”
And THEN I continue.
It makes everything easier — even time somehow slows down. (I don’t know how, but it does.)
4. Talking to myself like a sane adult (lol)
This one sounds silly but it WORKS.
When things get stressful, I literally talk to myself.
Out loud? Sometimes.
Quietly? Most of the time.
Stuff like:
• “This isn’t an emergency.”
• “It’s okay to slow down.”
• “One thing at a time.”
• “Nothing’s wrong. You’re okay.”
And honestly? My whole body softens.
This is inner alignment in action — telling yourself the truth in the moment you need it most.
5. Using my body to make decisions (because my brain is dramatic)
My brain will say YES to everything.
My body? She actually knows what’s up.
So if something comes up — an invitation, a request, a new thing to take on — I check my body.
Does it tighten?
Does it expand?
Does it feel neutral?
That’s my answer.
It keeps me from overcommitting, overgiving, or saying yes when I’m absolutely maxed out.
6. Tiny “on-the-go” resets (the real MVP)
These are my favorites because they take 5–10 seconds and no one even knows I’m doing them:
• Long exhale
• Hand on my heart
• Shoulder roll
• Tongue on the roof of my mouth (calms the vagus nerve — magic)
• Little mantra like: “be here now.”
I do these in the car between drop-offs, at red lights, on my way into the store… everywhere….just ask my kids. I often make them do it with me.
7. Letting the tools become… me
This is the biggest shift.
It’s not about “doing the work” anymore.
It’s about it becoming HOW I move through the world.
It’s woven into everything now — not because I’m perfect (lol, not even close), but because I’ve practiced these tiny moments again and again.
Inner alignment isn’t some big dramatic ritual.
It’s actually a million little choices.
A million tiny micro-moments of coming back into your body…
coming back into yourself…
over and over.
That’s where the real transformation happens.
If you take one thing from this…
Let it be this:
You don’t need a full hour.
You don’t need quiet.
You don’t need everything to be perfect.
You just need ONE moment… to check in.
One breath (or 3 lol).
One honest truth-telling moment with yourself.
One decision to choose presence instead of panic.
That’s inner alignment.
And you can do it anywhere.
Even in the frozen food aisle.