5 Years at The Cabin

Five years ago plus two weeks or so, life at The Cabin began, lovingly nestled a 15 minute walk from the entrance to a stunning, 1600 acre second growth forest…

Which blows my goddamn mind, because after leaving home at 18, I bounced all over the map for the next 9 years, never staying anywhere longer than 10 months. 

From Comox to Toronto to Santo Domingo to Comox to Victoria to Comox to Athens to Comox to Phuket to Comox to Vancouver to Babylon to Vancouver to Amsterdam, and back to Comox where The Cabin rests. That’s everywhere I lived from 2012-2020.

(I’ve since discovered I was avoiding a lot that required stillness to process.)

Honestly, I don’t know that I’d have stopped bouncing… if not for a global pandemic complicating everything, debilitating physical pain, and crumbling mental health.

None of which were fun experiences, but they forced me into a lull that has eventually led to the most deeply aligned, fulfilled expression of life I’ve ever lived.

Alignment and fulfillment were questions that grew heavier and heavier, became more and more important to answer… and evermore elusive as the years slipped by.

These were questions that couldn’t be answered, I’d learn, until I stopped seeking.

Answers like these don’t come from psychological choice, and I’m far from the only person to have spent most of their life living all spooled up inside their mind.

Turns out, life doesn’t happen in the mind.

Life happens through the body… and is processed by the mind.

Living from the body, not mind, is where I found alignment and purpose.

So if I had to distill every drop of the inner work I’ve done this year down into one sweet, sticky, and stylish sentence to guide others, that would be it.

Humans are quick to forget that we’re simply animals with consciousness. 

Which is why embodiment has been the key to absolutely everything for me—after undergoing a drastic paradigm shift as to what embodiment actually is.

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Embodiment isn’t using your body, or having a body.

Embodiment is knowing your body in a way most will never touch.

I’ve written of coherence, of intuition, of belief, of devotion, and more.

Embodiment is when those components of your inner world bleed into reality, without you needing to ‘think’ or ‘force’ or ‘place’ them there. You just do. Your voice, posture, life rhythm, and decision-making all reflect your deepest, most potent truth.

To embody is to carry that truth in your bones, to let your body express that truth freely, and to move through the world as a vessel of your own becoming.

Deep, deep down, that’s what I was trying to figure out when life at The Cabin began.

I just didn’t know it yet. And I was about as far away as you could get at the time. 

The journey here hasn’t been swift or easy, but stunningly beautiful still.

If I could brew a legit magic potion for you, the Essence of Embodiment would be it.

Many of life’s problems have a neat way of disappearing once embodiment locks in.

More explorations to come.

With love from the forest,

~ Alexander