Got 💩 problems? Like… maybe not enough or maybe too much? Listen - try this abdominal massage each morning for a week and see if the 💩 comes out of your bod -better. No joke! This might seem kind of strange, but I’m telling you that if you can improve your 💩 situation -you can improve your longevity and your vitality (especially at midlife). This is true adulting. 😼 #genx #vitality #dontdie #livelong

Standing on 1 foot with your eyes closed is a predictor of longevity. Most people can do 3 seconds when they start this practice. How many seconds can you do? That will be your baseline. Write it on your calendar or pop it into your notes app. Longevity is within our reality when we allow it. Add this practice to your morning routine, and watch your longevity improve each day! ☀️ Come on in to Live Long. Be Well. Be Happy. on Facebook. I’ll share everything I am doing this decade to make the next one even better. #genx #norwex #midlifewomenwellness #MidlifeWellness #MenopauseWellness #perimenopause #womenshealthmatters

Morning routines are THE BEST! 🌞☕️ Today, the eye moisture is happening… tell me how long YOU leave yours on?!? ⏲️ Talk about midlife skin and health in my new group! Live Long. Be Well. Be Happy. Tap here if you’re seeing this in Facebook and come on in! 👆

Listen up midlifers! 📣🗯️ If you are 🔥 HOT as EFF - and have have enough - grab some Black Cohosh. 🖤 No joke. This is not fake news. Hear what I have to say about it over in Live Long. Be Well. Be Happy. Tap in on FB to read the full story! 💋 You’re welcome! #hotflashes #midlifewomen #goodhealth #herbalremedies #norwex #livewell

What’s filling you up? Loading your heart with gratitude? Warming your spirit and charging your soul? …I hope it’s the people in your life. These women mean so much to me. Not for what they do -but for who they are. Surround yourself with others who meet you where you’re at, leave judgement at the door, and lead their lives through a lens of love. Everyone needs a sense of community and belonging. Everyone needs a sense of true self and of purpose. Everyone needs friends who say “yes” and “we’ve got your back”. I’m feeling thankful for all of the above and hope to be a person who can be the same friend in kind. 💐 #friends #norwex #genx #friendshipgoals

Do you have generalized anxiety around the deployment of AI technology? 🤖 Thinking about this because my 22 year old has graduated with her BA & is completely paralyzed by her contemplations over the world of work - frozen in fear that her skills and interests have no place or purpose. Here’s the thing- fearing AI is akin to the Luddites fearing the loom. 🪢 I’m peering at the landscape of generative AI, considering its relevance on a scale as vast as the domestication of fire or the ubiquitous use of electricity. To fear it is to miss the point. If you’re outlook is in alignment with my kid, I’ll ask you what I yearn to ask her… “How was that burger from grub hub?” And “Tell me more about that anime convention you just attended?” How is fearing AI compatible? Is our cognitive dissonance so deep that we find shelter in egregiously ignoring the gazillion examples of our interdependence between AI and the basic functions of our daily existence already in play? Every aspect of our lives is and will continue to be impacted by generative AI - for the love…we’re sitting here on Insta together, right?!? I’m feeling curious, and aligning my expectations with the likes of Franklin, Cox, and Silva. AI is unfolding. It is us. We are it. It is other -but not separate. Magic and mathematics melted into a slurry inextricable from reality as we understand it to be. Maybe we ought to call it “the domestication of the universe”? What do you think?

Siblings. Often, these are the people with whom we travel the greatest distance. 🕰️ The entanglement we experience throughout our lifetime with them is mystical and profound, dispite momentary circumstances. 🪢 I once (twice, three times) read, “Many Lives, Many Masters”, by Brian L. Weiss, M.D., who explored the generational psychology and epigenetic connections that we carry in our cells thoughout our lifetime. He suggests that the people who surround us now, are not tabula rasa individuals, but rather - souls who quantum leap with us from one human experience to the next. ⏳ My brother, whom I see in person perhaps once a year, delights in a “chewy” glass of CabSauv 🍷…without knowing, or ever discussing this preference with him, I remarked that the wine was “chewy” during Liz’s graduation celebration - and with wide eyes, my beautiful sister-in-law turned to me and remarked, “Did you say ‘chewy’? Your brother is the only one I’ve ever heard describe a full-body-red in that way.” I smiled, but my thought was, “That’s quantum entanglement”. 🕸️😏 This week, I’m thinking a lot about family, our relationships, and the space - between, which is not at all empty. It’s filled with non-duality energy - connection at the quantum level, which humans have known about for millennia, but now study through a lens of 60-minute billable sessions, laboratory work, & mathematical data sets. Science, proving spiritual knowing. Cheers 🥂 to siblings. Cheers 🥂 to interconnected friends. Cheers 🥂 to our walk, together, through time, space, and experience.

For our friends and family, near and far, we invite you to read Colin’s father’s obituary. Bob’s memorial service is planned for Saturday, May 17, 2025 at 10:00am, Asbury First United Methodist Church 1050 East Ave, Rochester, NY Also see the link in the comments. 🌈🤍 Thank you for the well wishes we have received. Colin feels deep gratitude for the love & support of family, friends, and colleagues. 🙏🏼 https://www.anthonychapels.com/obituaries/Robert-W-Stokes?obId=42501852

The Skipper has set his course for his soul’s next journey. Ninety one years, here, building a life for himself, for family, for others. ⛵️ 🌎 🛰️ Colin came home from Highland Hospital last night and shared the story of his father’s quiet passing. A man and his dad, sitting through the last precious moments, here, together. 🌈🤍 The bustle of our daily experiences pales in comparison to the last of our hours. When the clock no longer matters, when energy from one realm overlaps the next, when space and time melt together. Dylan Thomas famously wrote, “Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” But resistance is not the path we all ultimately face. When the moment comes, we choose, surrender. 🌷 Bob, you sailed, you studied, you invented, you built. You raised a family, you saw the sunset, you created community and friendships for a lifetime. You loved and practiced devotion. We honor your life and are so thankful to have been part of your world. 🙏🏼 🌅 Cheers to my Father In Law, Robert Stokes. 🫱🏼🥃✨🥃🫲🏼 SKOL! 🇸🇪 We love you and will miss you. 🌈🤍

An ode to laundry… 🧺 Just do it. But do it without harming people, pets, or planet. 🌎 Make it sustainable. Make it easy. Laundry is part of home-life. If you must - pay someone to do it, but for the love of all things reasonable - treat clothing, textiles, design, and craftsmanship as the miracle it is. 🧵 If you want to see “Norwex Lady Gayle” in action… pour a drink and tune on in. Like what you see? Place an order. Book a show. Join my team. There’s a place for you here. #norwex #laundry 🪢

If I was to build a space for the appreciation of thought, imagination, and beauty… it would be this space. Open Inviting Airy Dedicated to creative expression. Passionate about conversations around justice and equality. The Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, NY feels more like being at a very special friend’s house, than it does a museum. Perhaps because it welcomes the community with open arms and offers is a story through the lens of those who give voice to people who have walked these streets - and have made a difference in the lives of others. The narrative here is about inclusion, about diversity, about locality, and about telling the story of the many, rather than the few. We’re grateful to be part of it. 🖼️

Great hair day - every time!