Sunrise in Your Pocket

Spring is here. Flowers, plants, and gardens are growing. In this season of new beginnings, we have an opportunity to consider the idea of what it looks like to nurture and tend to the inner landscape of our lives. To tend to our soul, and to receive nurturing in our heart and in our mind. In this week's episode, Elena is diving deep into this gardening metaphor to share her favorite questions and practices to help you tend to your inner garden. http://elenasonnino.com/podcast/tend-to-your-inner-garden

Be open to receive. We hear this all the time. I’ve even used it as a (frequent) intention and affirmation. But what if there is a difference between what and how we receive and what and how we absorb? Because it is one thing to receive a feeling, and it is another thing to soak it up. In this week’s episode, Elena invites us to consider the question of how and where can you absorb more. Show notes available with all LINKS mentioned here: http://elenasonnino.com/podcast/where-can-you-absorb-more

We have a choice every single day to consider what we want to create space for in our lives. But what if creating space is less about what we want to create space for and more about the practice of allowing. In this week’s episode, Elena is exploring what it means to create space for you, why it matters, and how it is less about the stuff in our lives, and more about a deeper sense of knowing. Show notes available here: http://elenasonnino.com/podcast/create-space-for-you

Have you ever been told to just breathe? Our breath is a tool that we carry with us, everywhere we go. But the truth is that most of us ignore our breath, or only use it to diffuse feelings or situations. In this week’s episode, Elena is sharing why creating space with your breath is a daily practice that can help you cultivate awareness and awakeness in your body, mind, and life. Show notes available with all LINKS mentioned here: http://elenasonnino.com/podcast/create-space-with-your-breath

Have you ever noticed that you tend to limit yourself when it comes to how much joy, love, or success you allow yourself to receive or experience? In this week’s Sunrise in Your Pocket episode, Elena is reflecting on the idea of expanding your capacity – to consider how good you are willing to let yourself feel. This mindset practice reminds us that each day is a choice to allow what we crave or want to amplify in our lives to be always better. https://www.elenasonnino.com/podcast/expand-your-capaci

When was the last time you wrote yourself a letter? In this week’s episode, Elena is inviting you to write not just a letter, but a love letter to yourself. This practice of writing a love letter to yourself functions as a gift to our future self. In these letters, we can offer a messages of inspiration, compassion, and reflections on what truly matters to be received when you need the reminder. Show notes available here: http://www.elenasonnino.com/podcast/write-a-love-letter-to-yourself

You’ve chosen a word for the year. Or maybe you’ve created a vision board or set your goals and intentions. But as the year rolls on, you are wondering, now what? In this week’s episode, Elena is sharing her process of how to embody your intention. Because setting your desire into motion is only the first step, next comes fueling your intention with daily sustenance and nurturing, whether it is the beginning of the year, or for any new project or goal that you want to give life to.

Intentions, goals, dreams, desires. We hear so much about these at the beginning of the year. But what happens if you aren’t sure where to start with getting clear about what you want? In this week’s Sunrise in Your Pocket episode, Elena is sharing her process for how to set an intention that comes from your heart. Here is a hint: it all starts with a mindset shift. Show notes available with all LINKS mentioned here: http://www.elenasonnino.com/podcast/how-to-set-an-intention

We often hear about not having an attachment to outcomes. That life is about the journey, not the destination. But let’s be real. Holding big, bold desires and dreams lightly enough that the outcome itself doesn’t make or break you – is hard. In this week’s episode, Elena is sharing what her labradoodle puppy (Jupiter) taught her about living with determination without expectation and how to integrate this practice into your own life. http://elenasonnino.com/podcast/determination-without-expectat

Saying yes to YOU and removing the need for external validation is one of the most important things you can do for yourself. But this week, Elena is talking about how to make this the year that you give your dreams a place to exist so that you can name, claim, and OWN your deepest longings and desires. https://www.elenasonnino.com/podcast/do-more-than-say-yes

The beginning of a new year often marks a time when many of us set goals and intentions. But in this week’s episode, I’m inviting you to dig deeper to find your innermost desires and longings, and then name them to kick-start 2019. These longings live in a place where joy, delight, wonder, and curiosity live, and they exist without conditions or expectations. Sound like fun? ...Or perhaps scary? Join me to make 2019 the year you “name it!”

In this week’s episode, I am inviting you to consider that it is time to stop surviving. No, I am not saying that surviving is bad; but I’m here to tell you that there is more to life when living fully in the now. This idea of moving beyond survival mode into living fully is the perfect way to kick off the new year for anyone who feels like they are “just getting through the day” between to-do lists, responsibilities, and day-to-day life.

The hustle and bustle of the holidays and the end of 2018 are here. Many of you might be starting to think about (or have already thought about) 2019 and what is next. But before you do, what if you could savor THIS. “This” being what is here for you … at this moment … in this year. In this week’s episode, I am diving into what it means to savor – why it is important and how to do it.

Ah, self-care. We hear all about why we NEED self-care, all the time. But for many people, time feels scarce, and the idea of finding time to care for yourSELF is low on the priority list – I get it. Which is why this week, I’m sharing my thoughts on the truth about self-care. Here is a hint: it is THAT important. You might be nodding your head but still wondering, “I get it … but how?” The trick, for me, is to see self-care less as a luxury and more as a part of our daily maintenance.

Do you assume worst-case scenarios? Or see things fall flat before they’ve even had a chance to take off? To be a catastrophizer is a natural tendency for many of us. This week, I’m exploring what it means to be a catastrophizer and how navigating this type of worst-case future thinking can actually help us connect with our inner strength and wisdom.