Currents: Our bi-weekly newsletter streaming reflections, practices, special offers and an invitation to return to yourself—rooted in breath, presence, and the rhythms of Living life in flow.
Stress, Culture, and the Nervous System
We often think of stress as something personal — a problem to manage within ourselves. But stress isn’t just individual; it’s cultural. It’s built into the systems, schedules, and expectations that shape how we live and work.
In this issue of Wild Minnow Currents, we explore what happens when our nervous systems stay stuck in overdrive, how the body’s natural blueprint for balance can help us return to calm, and why our individual regulation ripples outward to create collective change.
Because while the world may keep shouting, our calm — and our choice to pause — is contagious.
How Stress Whispers Before It Shouts
For years, my body whispered through fatigue, tension, and pain I couldn’t explain. By the time doctors named it — an adrenal tumor — the whisper had become a shout. This reflection invites you to pause, breathe, and notice what your body might be saying before it has to speak louder.
Pausing before we react
In a world where reactivity feels louder than ever, what happens if we pause before we react? This piece explores how even a single breath can shift the ripple—from conflict and division to presence, choice, and healing.
Overwhelm is not who you are
Sometimes overwhelm greets us before the day even begins. The worries that threaded through your dreams return with your first waking breaths — a ping in the pit of your stomach, sudden yet familiar. But overwhelm is not who you are. It’s only a messenger, reminding you to return — to your breath, your body, the present moment.
When belonging is a birthright
Belonging isn’t something to be earned — it is the birthright of every being. This issue of Currents reflects on the stories and cultural conditions that tell us our worth is conditional, and the deeper truth revealed through vulnerability, nature’s wisdom, and sacred reciprocity.
When we finally slow down
After years of constant motion, I didn’t know how to stop. But the discomfort of stillness revealed something deeper—a path back to myself. This issue of Currents explores the courage to return, the healing in presence, and the soul’s quiet readiness to move again.
Stillness isn’t silence—it’s how we move next
I used to fill every pause. Even 30 seconds of silence felt loud - like something was wrong if I wasn’t doing, saying, or responding to something.
Recently I was reminded just how deep those old patterns can run...This latest reflection highlights what it means not just to find stillness - but to live from it.
Because Stillness Speaks
Ten years ago, the idea of stillness made my whole body tighten. Avoiding the quiet felt easier than facing what I might find there — until one small challenge changed everything. In this reflection, Tonia Johnson shares how learning to be still opened the door to healing, presence, and a return to self.
A Journey of Self Study
In that space—bare, honest, stripped of all pretenses – I began to see more clearly. To hear more truthfully.
What was left when I couldn’t do, or produce, or care for others in the way I was used to?
What remained was me – and an invitation to meet myself, fully.