The Cymbria Store, Calgary, AB (2026)

12/22/2025

A Be Creative Hunt is a real-time creativity treasure hunt as a safe place space for creative freedom and exploration with an ever adapting scavenger hunt list of creative moments and expressions. But of course you need a lil danger to get the juices flowing! The safety comes from breathing into your Home Creative Frequency: a self-state of low internal stress from which creativity can flow and actualize most efficiently/effectively — brainwave patterns and energy vibrations of mind/body/spirit are balanced and open to play, love, and discovery.

The permission to be wholly yourself is a decadence of unspeakable grace. And yes, it’s a dynamic balance so don’t get caught in perfection. And that’s what makes a Be Creative Hunt so much fun! It holds the three keys to a successful system (adaptation, accommodation, regeneration) and can be practiced anytime, anywhere. Because this kind of freedom really does take practice… and might just be the most generous gift you can give yourself this year.

So get out there and smell-where-you-are, take a Triple Gratitude Breath, do a Story-scan, and join The One Breath Story Club. Cat and mouse an idea you can exhale in one gloriously indulgent breath. “Because every breath is a life lived in and of itself.” Do the story — dare a playful life! Take pictures and sketch yourself into creative abundance. No rules, just pure play! Get back to your hunter-gatherer roots and risk the one thing that from which all else matters, being yourself.

11/26/2025

I will not go gentle into this good morning, but burn and rave against the coming of the light. An idea! One as mad as the world waking with me: The Interpretive Dance Smoothie. Throw everything into the ring: dance, stretching, breathwork, fascia training, gratitude, play, creativity, cold plunge, morning sun exposure, humming, singing, positive self-talk, smell where you are mindfulness, hydration, nutrition, presence…

I am done with shame. I dance and I stretch and I sing, even throw in a Triple Gratitude Breath power charged physiological sigh — and almost pass out. Hum my way to wake up my husband to tell him he didn’t close the fridge properly last night, and dance my way back to the blender. Smell the banana. Smell the apple. Risk the whole thing with nutritional yeast. I am done with fear. I take the cold plunge of a picture out in the snow. Having fun now, in spite of myself (could it really be working?). Then I take this show to the streets on a Be Creative Hunt and keep the energy going. I am ready for life. But this time, and more and more each day now, as a fully fuelled human who cares.

Do the story. Breathe into your Home Creative Frequency and dare a playful life! “Because every breath is a life lived in and of itself.”

11/17/2025

🦆Out on a Be Creative Hunt, the Triple Gratitude Breath 30 second nervous system reset is a playful way to be fully present in the moment/environment and create from safety. Spontaneous and improvisational, the Triple Gratitude Breath lets you “do the story” wherever you are, and carries the three keys to any successful system: Adaptation, Accommodation, and Regeneration.

So does The Cymbria Store! I set up a pop-up creativity energy exchange at a picnic bench overlooking the pond to edit this video, then scripted the caption while walking to find a bathroom (only downside to a mobile office — although I can get pretty creative). Got a small fry and a heated pop-up at Burger King, where I wrote this out on the back of the tray mat. Give yourself permission to breathe into your own Home Creative Frequency, find the flow, and dare a playful life!

11/12/2025

🦉Wisdom out the window, I couldn’t resist the story, knowing it was a risk too far…

The Be Creative Hunt has been an evolution. Starting as EMDR Creativity Walks after the pandemic, then renamed Create From Safety Hunts as I reconnected with my own sense of safety and creative freedom, and now a pure joy of existence as Be Creative Hunts — like last night’s little adventure. Because I am a hunter, for ever and always (animals excluded thus far), and if I’m going to BE anything with my time/energy, you can be 100% sure it’s creative. When there is only this moment, why be anything other than true? “Because every breath is a life lived in and of itself.”

A Be Creative Hunt is playing with presence, attention, and energy. When you breathe into your Home Creative Frequency, the hunt for creative thrills/pauses is a scavenger hunt with a list emerging in realtime through your engagement with reality. No pressure, no perfection, just a dance with existence as it arrives. Anytime, anywhere, from a long picture-filled hike in nature to quick sketches waiting for an oil change. The grocery store becomes a play space! Hunter-gatherer takes on fresh new meaning. Let’s get back to our creative roots!

The Cymbria Store is an energy exchange. When we can all be our own point of sale, this is my most authentic offering: creativity, the way I’m called to serve my tribe. Products to come, it’s my delight to use this space to share these free tools (list in comments) developed on the hunt to help you explore your own creative permission. It’s already in your bones!

At a certain point in the hunting/gathering of over 50,000 photos (honouring my curiosity), I suddenly realized I was the one taking the pictures. I was the permission! Join me on your own Be Creative Hunt. Do the story. Dare a playful life!

11/04/2025

📖This one breath story holds a warning. Did you catch it?

As we (re)learn to create from safety, a one breath story is an ideal place to dive deep — “because every breath is a life lived in and of itself” — and still come up for air. Can you bring an idea, an entire world, to life in a single exhale? A challenge so beautiful in its impossibility, yet impossible to fail. Because you live that one breath (whatever the words) as YOUR story when you read and share — the most delicious catch-22! And to write one breath you have all the time in the world. Focus on your intention. Let you imagination wander. Relax your body and breathe into your “home creative frequency” (a Triple Gratitude Breath does wonders). Filter through your focus, gather the words, now pick and sort and play!

Does your past, your story, show you the warning in my one breath about a bird and a fence? Depends if you’ve been the bird, the fence, or the struggle of both in the same body. Just follow the 💩 lol. The freedom of the one breath story club is the infinite space that flows in and around the initial idea/emotion. Join the club! Dare a playful life! Do the story!

09/25/2025

🌎To you, with all my heart, I give the most valuable idea I’ve ever made real: the Triple Gratitude Breath 30 second nervous system reset. Yes, it will take some practice to synchronize your newly stacked physiological sigh, but if a Triple Gratitude Breath can bring me back to myself after 10 and a half hours in another city’s emergency room… the power (and the research behind it) is true.

“Because every breath is a life lived in and of itself.” Do the story! Smell where you are… and dare a playful life!

09/10/2025

Good luck creating from fight or flight! If you do manage to squeeze something out while every motivation is sprinting wildly for the exit, kudos to you. Underneath a nervous system on fire is a lost permission, raw and unearned, a birthright: to create from safety. To play!

What is your “home creative frequency?” So many words exist to name the space beyond them: wholeness, yoga, grounded, postcoital (oops), centred, peace, bliss. Your home creative frequency is your personal play space. Practice is the path! Tools like the Triple Gratitude Breath (30 second nervous system reset) and Create From Safety Hunts are fun and neurologically efficient ways to connect/align your body, environment, and inner world, because ultimately, you’re retraining your whole system. This is hardcore love.

The payoff? I have another name for my own home creative frequency… “Playful Genius.” And I’m not apologizing. Our nervous systems care about survival. And if I was on a desert island, being a playful genius would be my most honest chance at life. So there.

07/30/2025

⚡️Find the story and grab hold! Permission to create in this age of overwhelm is a full throttle act of love. Launch from the safety of one breath with one of my fave Cymbria Store tools: The One Breath Story Club. As you take a deep inhale/exhale, do a broad story scan ( ) of wherever you are. Look, feel, smell… then focus in on whatever pops out, an image, a memory, an absurdity, an emotion, a sensation, and story the heck out of it! Find the words to tell it all in one breath. Feel the story! This is a full body crossword puzzle filtering out the noise and connecting you with the present moment. Give it a glorious ego blast with all the energy of indulgence! Every breath you invest in this exercise is fully, truly, yours, and the exaltation of the final exhale, the one breath story, will hold all the power of your presence, even if you whisper it back only to the wind. “Because every breath is a life lived in and of itself.” Do the story! Dare a playful life!

07/19/2025

“I want to learn how to create from safety,” says the first customer of the day. “That is your tagline, isn’t it?”

“Sure! It’s all about systems to help you feel safe in your body, but—”

“There’s always a ‘but,’” he says. The chicken on his shoulder rolls its eyes at me.

“But, creating will actually feel like playing when you can learn to feel safe in your own story. Because, and please don’t take this the wrong way, you’ve got a chicken on your shoulder.”

“What?”

“I can literally see it making a nest out of your sweater! Whatever fears and shame it’s keeping under its feathers—for entirely good reasons I’m sure—you also gave it all your colour, your energy, too.”

“How would you know?!”

“How do think I can see the chicken?”

Welcome to The Cymbria Store 🥚✨

04/11/2025

“I’m not allowed to want,” says the first customer of the day.

“Then why are you here?” I ask him.

“I guess I do want something. I want to know where to buy that permission.”

“You mean buy it back?”

He looks confused. “I’m not sure,” he says.

“Well, either way, you’ve definitely come to the right place.”

✨Welcome to The Cymbria Store!

03/13/2025

Your next breath holds every possibility and permission🌬️Make it a gift to self with a gratitude breath. This powerful tool combines multiple proven principles into an incredibly efficient holistic grounding practice. Bonus: repeat three times for a quick 30 second nervous system reset. Enjoy!

🌬️The Gratitude Breath

1. Strong double nose inhale as you

2. Full mouth exhale, releasing body tension, while focusing attention on (add saying/visualizing/drawing to boost impact), “This breath I’m grateful for ______”

In our age of overwhelm, tools like these can really help us recenter and regulate ourselves. And you can always afford, always, to take one breath for yourself. It’s the best place to start… “Because every breath is a life lived in and of itself.”

01/01/2025

❤️I am not the girl who drew this picture; I am the woman who is publishing it. We live in a wondrous time of change. The present moment is the only surety, and then only unto itself. The holidays are over. This is real. Do the story! Dare a playful life! Bring on 2025!🎉

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