The Instructional Hub for All Things Bonnie Gillespie

I'll never forget the moment I first felt "the catch" that would lead to hospitalization, more than 3 months' bedrest, and a full 18 months of deep diving into an exploration of the mind-body healing process and the power of the human brain and spirit.

I was warming up in pole class, doing an open leg stretch, and I felt "a catch" in my right hip and thought, "Hmm. This feels like an upper-limit problem."

I actually thought that a physical THING was that "other shoe" that, for months, I'd been fearing would drop. Because in the time leading up to this moment, I had gotten sober, become a sexy little hard-body nearing high school weight, and crossed a financial benchmark with our company that had me pinching myself.

And somewhere, whispering to me, there was this voice going, "Watch your back. It can't be this good in this many areas of life for this long without some kind of catch."

Check that language. "Watch your back." "Some kind of catch." Whoa.

Expansive Capacity is the result of my synthesizing into curriculum the months I spent reaching far within, collaborating with experts from all over the world, and going deep with this healing work as if it were my full-time job. I knew, early on, "This isn't just for me."

Our brains are BUSY places. So sometimes our bodies must play a role in getting our attention. That's what happened with me. This is also ⁠— by the way — what happens with many undiagnosable "mystery illnesses," unexpected physical maladies, chronic fatigue that we can't seem to shake, addictive habits we can't seem to kick, and so on. Our bodies will speak to us in ways that are culturally accepted (pain, cravings, exhaustion) when all we need to do is start listening SOONER in order to begin to understand the dialogue that's *trying* to take place.

While the mind-body healing journey I've been on has taught me more about myself than I ever expected to learn — and LOVE — it also revealed to me the myriad ways I navigate life fluidly and intuitively. Ways I can now share with you! Because our health — especially as we enter those higher tiers we've spent so much of our lives aspiring to reach — is managed. Our relationships are managed. Our growth is managed. Our abundance is managed. Our enoughness is managed.

The upper-tier work is NOW. Because there's no *getting* there (much less *staying* there) if we expect the muscles to show up for us without doing any practice right now.

So, here we are.

Expansive Capacity.