Fall Up Community Feature: Brittany Cano

Hi Fall Up Community,

We hope you’re alive to the invitations for growth present within your life. As you’ve maybe seen on our instagram, with this new year we’ve been sharing more about our multidimensionality, including our heretofore off menu offerings: Answering the Call Mentorship and Sacred Medicine Preparation and Sacred Medicine Integration sessions. 

In this post we’re excited to share about Brittany, a courageous hearted community member who moved through her Grief into Growth containers and then felt called to move into an Answering the Call Mentorship.

One of the many things that I appreciate about Brittany is her tenacity with the invitations that come up in sessions. I recommend a book, she buys it and reads it. I recommend a podcast, she listens to it and leverages the insights within it for her growth. I recommend a course, she takes it. 

In short: it is such a joy to co-create with Brittany who is always so ready to expand into growth and transformation.

Brittany, thank you for being such a bright light, and for sharing your heart and your healing with us – and with the world through your beautiful offerings. 

Keep going, keep growing!

Together we fall up.

With love,
Jasmin

Brittany Cano

A COUPLE OF FUN FACTS

Favorite comfort food:
Cookies and a glass of almond milk

Favorite feel good movie:
Wizard of Oz

Favorite power song:
Formation by Beyoncé

We believe that to “fall up,” through your grief is to embrace your grief as an invitation to grow and transform, but what does “fall up,” mean to you?

When we experience grief or a major challenge, we have choices. Some of those choices include letting it destroy us, ignoring it, or utilizing it as an opportunity to "fall up." To me, "fall up," means we find triumph through the trials. I've heard the saying "there's no problems, only perspective." To fall up during grief means to take a perspective that embodies everything that the grief process presents AND transform the heartache into something beautiful or into something that creates nourishment for you.

Where are you most practicing “falling up,” in your life right now?

I am using falling up in my intimate relationships. Through a series of events with some of the people I am closest with, I experienced deep hurt. This pain was a huge wake up call for me to "fall up" in patterns that were no longer working for me. For example, I became keenly aware how co-dependency was affecting my quality of life. I also got real with myself and had the courage to stop drinking alcohol completely. I had contemplated quitting drinking for quite some time but this trauma gave me the initiative to actually do it once and for all because I discovered a higher standard for myself, a deeper sense of truly taking care of myself.

Which invitation from The Fall Up Method (the pause, the breath, the feeling, the healing), is calling to you most now? And how are you embracing this calling? 

The pause. The pause allows me to check in & proceed with what supports my highest good. The pause is great for impulse control, too!

Anything you want to share about what you’re grieving or what you’re celebrating right now?

I AM GRIEVING:

I am grieving the decline of my mother's wellbeing.

I AM CELEBRATING:

I am celebrating all of the success with my retreats, coaching clients, and mobile IV consulting. 

For those who may be hesitant to begin their grief healing and integration journey, what words of wisdom would you like to offer to them? 

We may think that if we don't address grief, it will go away on its own. That is not true. We may think that it's too painful to begin the grief healing and integration journey, that we cannot handle it, not at this time. Remember, the brain will do whatever it can to feel safe (and if we've been in a trauma-loop for awhile that becomes familiar and the brain can actually register that as "safe"), even if doing the thing — beginning the healing journey — would actually be the best thing for you. I encourage anyone who is experiencing grief, to take a leap of faith and do whatever they need to do to heal. Grief affects every area of our life. When we choose to begin our healing and integration journey, it has a "falling up" effect on our entire life.

Photos: 1. Brittany rock climbing 2. One of Brittany’s retreats 3. Brittany celebrating