On Water, Visibility & Being Seen
We woke up to waves of snow this week — the kind that drift and fold on themselves like tiny frozen tides. I’ve been sitting with that image, because lately I’ve also been exploring visibility in my work and in my body.
Visibility has a polarity to it. There are days when showing up feels expansive and exciting — and others when it feels like too much. Watching the snowbanks soften and pile made me think of water, and how many forms it takes depending on the conditions around it.
Water as Metaphor
Water exists on a spectrum.
At one end it becomes gas — light, rising, expansive, hard to contain.
At the other it becomes ice — dense, contracted, slow, structured.
In the middle, it is liquid — fluid, adaptable, responsive, always moving.
Same element. Different state.
Nothing “wrong” with any of them — they just express under different temperatures.
Visibility as Polarity
Visibility feels the same.
On one end, there’s expansion:
attention, engagement, excitement, creativity, connection.
On the other end, there’s contraction:
overstimulation, self-judgment, old wounds, trolls, fear, the urge to hide.
Both states are intense in their own way… and both are made of the same essence.
- For a long time, I only romanticized the “expansion” side — the growing community, the messages, the videos going further than I expected. But the contraction side has taught me just as much about my nervous system, protection, and pacing.
The Middle
If water teaches us anything, it’s that the middle is where movement lives.
Not frozen. Not evaporating. Just flowing.
In my own life, staying “in the middle” has looked like:
- slowing down when my system is overwhelmed
- noticing instead of collapsing
- breathing instead of bracing
- resting instead of quitting
These are nervous system skills — not personality traits.
And they’re learnable.
A flow after teaching water element and I let my body move with permission.
Bringing It Into the Body
One thing that transformed my creative life was realizing I didn’t need to “toughen up” for visibility — I needed to embody it.
Water doesn’t force itself through rock — it molds around it, softens it, and keeps moving.
That image is what inspired the first week of my new somatic series: Water — where we explored spinal undulations, breath, and fluid release.
If you’re curious about exploring this in your own body, Elements of Embodiment is open with replays available anytime.
There’s no need to attend live — you can move at your own pace.
Here’s the link to learn more:
👉 Elements of Embodiment (Live Series)
or if you only want replays:
👉 Elements of Embodiment (replays only)
Wherever you are on the spectrum — expanding, contracting, or somewhere in between — it’s all part of being human.
Water doesn’t apologize for changing state.
Maybe we don’t have to either.