Natalie Audelo

@natalieaudelo

designing social architecture and community experiences that build trust, generate creativity, and encourage authentic human connection. exploring the healing power of play, movement, music and other integrative practices.

I don’t care if I’m popular, I’m just going to do this. I’m a lifer in this. I’m going to do this forever.
from On redefining what it means to be successful
redefining success and loving the process
stories trapped in my cells, emotions in my fascia: there was information hidden in my body, and I didn’t know it.
from The Burnout Antidote by Anne Berube
the body keeps score
What do you consider your greatest achievement so far?

Building a family. Building is a political philosophy – a very noble act. We talk a lot about the virtue of building in Silicon Valley, and for most people, family formation is the deepest and most tangible way in which they’ll experience building something from nothing that outlasts themselves... See more
from Modern Meditations: Katherine Boyle
loving the process
It’s helpful to think in terms of: it’s only play. We’re here to play. We’re here to have fun. And to use the feedback of, you know, sometimes failure is the thing you need to know to get to where you’re going. So if you try to solve a problem 10 ways and they all fail, you can either decide I’m a failure or you can decide, okay, I’m now 10 method
... See more
from Rick Rubin — Magic, Everyday Mystery, and Getting Creative by On Being
FreeFrom - Our Work
freefrom.org
building a new world
Choose work you have a natural aptitude for and a deep interest in. Develop a habit of working on your own projects; it doesn't matter what they are so long as you find them excitingly ambitious. Work as hard as you can without burning out, and this will eventually bring you to one of the frontiers of knowledge. These look smooth from a distance, b... See more
from Superlinear Returns
loving the process
when in doubt, follow your curiosity
Letting go is not difficult—processing loss is.

from Simplify Simplify Simplify

in my (not so fun) feels

In recent years, I've begun to suspect that a life consumed by ideas will not bring me closer to the divine. The freedom I seek, it seems, doesn't lie in my laying about, steeped in my own brain, but rather in the stillness I've found in the more mundane moments of my life. In these moments, there is no euphoria, nor even any active reflection on g... See more

from Glimpsing God by Nadia

loving the process

Honor your intentions, honor your values, but please , honor exactly what you need.

from Call me a homebody. by Izabella Zucker

good advice

from On redefining what it means to be successful

from The Burnout Antidote by Anne Berube

from Modern Meditations: Katherine Boyle

from Rick Rubin — Magic, Everyday Mystery, and Getting Creative by On Being

FreeFrom - Our Work

from Superlinear Returns

from Simplify Simplify Simplify

from Glimpsing God by Nadia

from Call me a homebody. by Izabella Zucker