Shineology

( hi…it’s me, Ann Green )

Requesting your interaction here. Please.

It’s been a really long time since I’ve posted on the section of my IG called “YOU HAVE ONE BODY”. Simply, because : life and managing it and navigating experiences of deep grief, loss, lack, fear, transitions, a lil heartbreak with friendship and even un-friendship; all thrown in there too! LOL. Ooof! Finding my legs to stand upon, again and again and even again, a new concept feels palatable. Now.

I’m putting this little message out to find out if this would be a great place for me to test out the possibility of beginning a podcast! I’d test out the concept in that lil place “you have one body”. Kindly let me know your thoughts - just give me a thumbs up 👍🏻 or a thumbs down 👎🏻 in the comments.

Thanks.

I’d really like to meet people at their needs. I’d like to talk about some of the things that I get questioned on very often. And, I’d like to see if I can provide support, insight, growth and the sensation of being cared for.

Or maybe you just don’t need to hear from me! Lol! And that’s OK!

It’s about that lil spot within my instagram known as “you have one body”.

I’ll still keep posting here on my main feed - irregularly as I do. Where it’s authentic, scientific, educative and simply me - compassionate.

That’s my super hero strength - authenticity. Or so I’m told…

Thank you for allowing me on your feed to share

💛

( just breathe )

This beach. My beach. Coming home.

Always home…

SO very many milestones in this lil spot. Such growth. Such risk. Such uncertainty. Such confidence. Such trust.

Not sure it was because I was third .. the baby … or if it was just always my nature. But. This place held curiosity discovery and all the niches life could ever hand me.

And my parents allowed this adventureness. They let me go here by bike - 7 min ride in the pinewood hood - on my own since about 8!

And I went here daily. Gr almost my entirety of growing up. On my own. Sometimes with people I loved. One time with a person I didn’t know wanted to hurt me.

They did.

And my whole life changed.

I learned to surf here. To body surf. To boogie board and to short board. Yep this calm can grow monstrous!

It was my go to spot for laughing, for friends, for calmness, for aloneness, for tears, for play, for gathering + to surf life.

…it also held the most violent interaction I’ve ever experienced…

I promised my big sis I’d make amends to this sacred spot…

I did that today

I am so grateful for so much.

And that my beach feels like home again

We can be strong.
We can be soft.
We can overcome the unimaginable.

I did

And I’m growing. Navigating. Thankful.

Sending you many blessings today.
All ways. Always.
💛

- Let yourself be moved by all the goodness that surrounds you -

( beauty full life )

In this lifetime, I’ve lived a thousand lifetimes, in this time…

And this.
This lil shot.
Some wee bit of time ago + feels a lifetime ago.

Cast for breast cancer awareness.

I feel blessed.
I feel rocked.
I feel unlimited gratitude.

I sense more arriving.

One of the biggest things I’ve learned in all the ways possible as an athlete and in my own lived experience of high performance - is that there will always be another start line. That’s unlimited. Possibility until you personally decide to erase | take away | ignore | not engage, in ALL the possibility.

But the opportunities are always there.
And there are always choices. All ways.

The season may hold deep loss or repetitive interruption - injury; grief; distraction; avoidance; arrogance; repeated success; disbelief; poor timing.

( NOTE: I am definitely moving through a season of poor timing. LOL - can we please get me a new clock? )

I’m observing truly destructive behavior in human awareness lately:

Dishonesty
Stealing
Silent treatment
Ghosting
Cancel culture
Broken contracts
Broken word
All word no action
Giving up
Anger
Gossip
Lies
Relentless poor decisions
Zero accountability
Confusion at a level of chaos unimaginable

We are all witnessing this across the stages of leadership, love and life.

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AND I’m witnessing incredible feats in human connection + belonging. In human performance. An agency of unreal kindness, in-formidable strength + human capacity of compassion that literally blows my mind + surges my heart to soar

Truth
Generosity
Communication
Belonging
Connection
Sacred Contracts
Promises
Action
Happiness
Persistence
Determination
Praise
Commitment
Discernment
Accountability
Peace

Choice: I am a person of the second set of character traits. Add joy! I wear my heart on my sleeve. I give all I do my everything!

I make mistakes. I call it learning. I own it + I show up! I’ll always be this way.

I say what I do. I do what I say.

At first this was a letter to honor my letting go of those who let me go.

It’s landed as the place of reintroducing myself: your nervous system support, your cognitive calm, your performance health. Elevate. Educate

I’m here.

( seize the day )

Lil ride b/w the lectures kind of day…

( Nancy’s bday in 5 days )

My first without her EVER in my life…

And my poor sweet momma
And brother
And our little village we call family. Kathy. Andrew. David. And most important to me - my absolutely cherished, Matthew. My “Mattman”

To say it’s not been easy is the biggest understatement.

To say I’m grieving is non-chalant.

To say I’m happy is a microcurrent that appears

Micro joy
Macro grief

Still
YEP!

I have experienced SO very many exquisite, blissful, awe filled and awful experiences in my life; and this one is all that rolled into a space I still don’t know how to describe.

My love has nowhere to go.
That to me, is grief.

It rises.
It fails.
It plummets.
It inspires.
It’s constant.

Constant in its loyalty, its appreciation, its loss, and its awesomeness. Pure. Whole. Completely incomplete.

Such a place that is no place.

Just some thoughts 5 days out…

If you think I’m good - I am.
And,

I’m not…

( let ‘em keep comin’ )

Sometimes those waves - they just keep coming’

Let them!
Surf them.
Submerge.
Float.
Let be.

One of those kinda rides…

Perspective is an athletes best view

( 62.8 km )