June 13, 2025 • 10 mins
Every morning at 6:30 AM, I stand barefoot in my front yard, arms stretched toward the sun in what I jokingly call my "suburban sunrise symphony." My neighbors have definitely noticed, and I've officially become "that woman" on our block – but I wouldn't have it any other way. This five-minute ritual has become my daily reset button, transforming how I show up for myself and others.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, it's Laura, and welcome to your Peak of the Week
, where we bridge the gapbetween external success and
internal fulfillment on thisHeavenly Human podcast.
So if you would like toactually receive these emails
from me on a weekly basis, headover to lauraekingcom and there
(00:26):
will be a pop-up that invitesyou to join Peak of the Week, or
you'll see it on the homepage.
I have so many good thingsbrewing.
Mondo has so many good thingsbrewing.
We have lots of things brewingand our sincere desire is to
make content that truly speaksto you.
(00:47):
So keep reaching out, keepsending us a text, keep letting
us know how these messages arehitting.
So let's get into this week whyI take my shoes off in the front
yard and other weird thingsthat keep me grounded.
I take my shoes off in thefront yard and other weird
(01:07):
things that keep me grounded.
Every morning at 6.30 am,you'll find me standing barefoot
in my front yard in whatever Islept in.
Okay, sometimes I actuallydress like I'm going to go out
for a run, arms stretchedtowards the sun, like I'm
conducting some kind of suburbansunrise symphony.
My neighbors have definitelynoticed.
I'm pretty sure I'm officiallythat woman on the block now and
(01:31):
you know what?
I don't care anymore, becausethis weird five-minute ritual
has become the differencebetween starting my day as
myself versus immediatelybecoming who I think everyone
else needs me to be.
So here's what really happensout there.
I step onto that cool grass,feel the earth beneath my feet
(01:56):
and something inside me justsettles.
All the mental noise fromyesterday settles.
All the mental noise fromyesterday.
The client emergencies, theboy's soccer schedules, the
endless parade of urgenteverything, all the unanswered
(02:18):
emails and text messages it allgets absorbed into the ground.
Science calls it grounding orearthing.
I call it remembering I'm human.
Those five minutes become mydaily check-in with what's real,
my reset button, my reminderthat I'm not a walking to-do
list in yoga pants although Itend to wear lots of yoga pants.
I'm a soul trying to stay awakein a world designed to put me
(02:43):
to sleep.
For years I would have beenmortified by what people thought
Old Laura started every dayfrantically scrolling her phone,
answering client requests,anxiety already brewing before
she'd even brushed her teeth.
But here's what life has taughtme the most grounding practices
(03:04):
often look the mostunconventional and, honestly,
people judging your weird areusually the ones who need
grounding most.
Maybe your body might be askingfor something like this.
It might not be my barefootmornings, okay.
Maybe it's talking to yourselfin the mirror like actual
(03:29):
conversations, not justaffirmations.
Dancing in your kitchen,putting your phone on airplane
mode for your first hour awake,asking your body before saying
yes to anything, taking threebreaths in your car before
walking into work, writing threemessy sentences about how you
(03:52):
actually feel and crying whenyou need to.
Here is your assignment.
Stop crying, performing normal.
Stop performing normal.
Start honoring what actuallybrings you back to yourself.
What would change if you stoppedworrying about looking polished
(04:15):
and started prioritizingfeeling grounded?
I used to think beingsuccessful meant having
everything perfectly controlledand composed.
Now I know it means stayingconnected to who I actually am,
(04:36):
even when especially when itlooks strange to others, look
strange to others.
My morning barefoot routinedoesn't prevent chaos from
happening, but it gives me acompletely different starting
point for meeting it.
Instead of reacting from oldpatterns, I respond from
centeredness.
My kids notice the difference.
(04:59):
My husband notices, my clientsdefinitely notice.
When you're grounded in yourself, you give everyone else
permission to find their solidground too.
So what grounds you Seriously,what grounds you?
The beautiful thing aboutgrounding is they don't require
(05:22):
a life overhaul.
They're micro moves, small,consistent choices that
gradually shift everything.
Your version might be weird toeveryone else.
It just needs to work for you.
So here's my gentle challengewhat's one small, potentially
(05:43):
weird thing you could do thisweek to feel more like you?
Maybe it's a practice you'vebeen curious about but felt too
busy for.
Maybe it's saying no tosomething that sounds good but
feels heavy.
Maybe it's having an honestconversation instead of another
(06:04):
polished performance.
Start where you are.
Trust what's calling to you.
Trust what's calling to you.
And I'll be on the one on thefront yard, arms up, feet down,
probably looking like a completeabsurd.
That's all right.
I'm feeling like more likemyself than I have ever.
(06:29):
Well, one weird thing iswaiting to ground you with deep
belief in your magnificence.
How about that?
So one big thing that I amtrying to teach my four boys is
that being weird is really cool.
(06:51):
Because I grew up feeling likethe oddball, like someone who
was so different than everyoneelse.
I had such big emotions.
I wasn't like other people.
I felt things so deeply.
I wasn't like other people.
I felt things so deeply.
I wasn't like other people,even sometimes in environments
(07:14):
where I I should have felt safe.
I should have felt safe.
I didn't feel safe and thatweighs on you over time.
So it is so critical for me as aparent to enforce with my
children that this is a safeenvironment for them to be who
(07:34):
they are, that they don't haveto pretend to be someone else in
order to make me happy or theirdad happy or anyone else happy.
Now, yes, there are some.
Yeah, we teach them lots oflife lessons and ways of being
and respect.
Don't get me wrong, but Iencourage the weird.
(07:55):
I regularly encourage the weird, and I like to think that this
is going to make a hugedifference in the next
generation, as they are socomfortable being authentically
who they are instead of someonelike me, who felt like I had to
(08:18):
be someone I wasn't for so manyyears until I woke up and I'm
like who am I?
Like?
This is not me.
I am acting a character in amovie that I am not even
directing, so why don't I putmyself back in the director's
(08:42):
seat and say how does this getto go?
How does this get to feel?
Because I don't know about you,but there's been a lot of
extreme circumstances andsituations and I've been at way
too many funerals over the lastyear to know that it is so
(09:03):
precious.
This is so precious and it'shere for you.
The sunset is here for you, thegiggles are here for you.
The belting a song at the topof your lungs is here for you.
I mean, insert whatever youwant, it's here for you.
(09:24):
We didn't come here to struggle.
We did not come here toentangle with fear.
We came to realize that we areactually way more powerful in
that we control our thoughts andtherefore we control our
experience of this life.
(09:46):
And when you begin to wake upto this oh my goodness, life
just comes alive.
You start seeing things thatyou never saw before.
For me, it was like oh my gosh,I have never really listened to
the birds chirp before.
(10:07):
And yes, I am that weird.
I'm like oh my gosh, the birdsare chirping.
Get weird.
Get in touch with you, tune outthe noise of the world and tune
into you.
Hey, it's Laura, and welcome to your Peak of the Week
, where we bridge the gapbetween external success and
internal fulfillment on thisHeavenly Human podcast.
So if you would like toactually receive these emails
from me on a weekly basis, headover to lauraekingcom and there
(00:26):
will be a pop-up that invitesyou to join Peak of the Week, or
you'll see it on the homepage.
I have so many good thingsbrewing.
Mondo has so many good thingsbrewing.
We have lots of things brewingand our sincere desire is to
make content that truly speaksto you.
(00:47):
So keep reaching out, keepsending us a text, keep letting
us know how these messages arehitting.
So let's get into this week whyI take my shoes off in the front
yard and other weird thingsthat keep me grounded.
I take my shoes off in thefront yard and other weird
(01:07):
things that keep me grounded.
Every morning at 6.30 am,you'll find me standing barefoot
in my front yard in whatever Islept in.
Okay, sometimes I actuallydress like I'm going to go out
for a run, arms stretchedtowards the sun, like I'm
conducting some kind of suburbansunrise symphony.
My neighbors have definitelynoticed.
I'm pretty sure I'm officiallythat woman on the block now and
(01:31):
you know what?
I don't care anymore, becausethis weird five-minute ritual
has become the differencebetween starting my day as
myself versus immediatelybecoming who I think everyone
else needs me to be.
So here's what really happensout there.
I step onto that cool grass,feel the earth beneath my feet
(01:56):
and something inside me justsettles.
All the mental noise fromyesterday settles.
All the mental noise fromyesterday.
The client emergencies, theboy's soccer schedules, the
endless parade of urgenteverything, all the unanswered
(02:18):
emails and text messages it allgets absorbed into the ground.
Science calls it grounding orearthing.
I call it remembering I'm human.
Those five minutes become mydaily check-in with what's real,
my reset button, my reminderthat I'm not a walking to-do
list in yoga pants although Itend to wear lots of yoga pants.
I'm a soul trying to stay awakein a world designed to put me
(02:43):
to sleep.
For years I would have beenmortified by what people thought
Old Laura started every dayfrantically scrolling her phone,
answering client requests,anxiety already brewing before
she'd even brushed her teeth.
But here's what life has taughtme the most grounding practices
(03:04):
often look the mostunconventional and, honestly,
people judging your weird areusually the ones who need
grounding most.
Maybe your body might be askingfor something like this.
It might not be my barefootmornings, okay.
Maybe it's talking to yourselfin the mirror like actual
(03:29):
conversations, not justaffirmations.
Dancing in your kitchen,putting your phone on airplane
mode for your first hour awake,asking your body before saying
yes to anything, taking threebreaths in your car before
walking into work, writing threemessy sentences about how you
(03:52):
actually feel and crying whenyou need to.
Here is your assignment.
Stop crying, performing normal.
Stop performing normal.
Start honoring what actuallybrings you back to yourself.
What would change if you stoppedworrying about looking polished
(04:15):
and started prioritizingfeeling grounded?
I used to think beingsuccessful meant having
everything perfectly controlledand composed.
Now I know it means stayingconnected to who I actually am,
(04:36):
even when especially when itlooks strange to others, look
strange to others.
My morning barefoot routinedoesn't prevent chaos from
happening, but it gives me acompletely different starting
point for meeting it.
Instead of reacting from oldpatterns, I respond from
centeredness.
My kids notice the difference.
(04:59):
My husband notices, my clientsdefinitely notice.
When you're grounded in yourself, you give everyone else
permission to find their solidground too.
So what grounds you Seriously,what grounds you?
The beautiful thing aboutgrounding is they don't require
(05:22):
a life overhaul.
They're micro moves, small,consistent choices that
gradually shift everything.
Your version might be weird toeveryone else.
It just needs to work for you.
So here's my gentle challengewhat's one small, potentially
(05:43):
weird thing you could do thisweek to feel more like you?
Maybe it's a practice you'vebeen curious about but felt too
busy for.
Maybe it's saying no tosomething that sounds good but
feels heavy.
Maybe it's having an honestconversation instead of another
(06:04):
polished performance.
Start where you are.
Trust what's calling to you.
Trust what's calling to you.
And I'll be on the one on thefront yard, arms up, feet down,
probably looking like a completeabsurd.
That's all right.
I'm feeling like more likemyself than I have ever.
(06:29):
Well, one weird thing iswaiting to ground you with deep
belief in your magnificence.
How about that?
So one big thing that I amtrying to teach my four boys is
that being weird is really cool.
(06:51):
Because I grew up feeling likethe oddball, like someone who
was so different than everyoneelse.
I had such big emotions.
I wasn't like other people.
I felt things so deeply.
I wasn't like other people.
I felt things so deeply.
I wasn't like other people,even sometimes in environments
(07:14):
where I I should have felt safe.
I should have felt safe.
I didn't feel safe and thatweighs on you over time.
So it is so critical for me as aparent to enforce with my
children that this is a safeenvironment for them to be who
(07:34):
they are, that they don't haveto pretend to be someone else in
order to make me happy or theirdad happy or anyone else happy.
Now, yes, there are some.
Yeah, we teach them lots oflife lessons and ways of being
and respect.
Don't get me wrong, but Iencourage the weird.
(07:55):
I regularly encourage the weird, and I like to think that this
is going to make a hugedifference in the next
generation, as they are socomfortable being authentically
who they are instead of someonelike me, who felt like I had to
(08:18):
be someone I wasn't for so manyyears until I woke up and I'm
like who am I?
Like?
This is not me.
I am acting a character in amovie that I am not even
directing, so why don't I putmyself back in the director's
(08:42):
seat and say how does this getto go?
How does this get to feel?
Because I don't know about you,but there's been a lot of
extreme circumstances andsituations and I've been at way
too many funerals over the lastyear to know that it is so
(09:03):
precious.
This is so precious and it'shere for you.
The sunset is here for you, thegiggles are here for you.
The belting a song at the topof your lungs is here for you.
I mean, insert whatever youwant, it's here for you.
(09:24):
We didn't come here to struggle.
We did not come here toentangle with fear.
We came to realize that we areactually way more powerful in
that we control our thoughts andtherefore we control our
experience of this life.
(09:46):
And when you begin to wake upto this oh my goodness, life
just comes alive.
You start seeing things thatyou never saw before.
For me, it was like oh my gosh,I have never really listened to
the birds chirp before.
(10:07):
And yes, I am that weird.
I'm like oh my gosh, the birdsare chirping.
Get weird.
Get in touch with you, tune outthe noise of the world and tune
into you.
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