Meet Danielle, creator of Superfine Life…

This Is My Story

I’ve been on a health and wellness journey for 15 years — it’s what led me to become an entrepreneur.

What started out as health issues became my passion and driving force to awaken and make much-needed changes to what I was putting in and on my body. So, with the support of my wife and kids, we started an organic food business, Natural Contents.

Everything I had learned and embodied, I was teaching and sharing with others. It was a magical experience but overly exhausting and, in the end, not financially viable given the quality of the products we were producing.

And over these 15 years, though I hit a certain level of success with my health and wellness, something was missing…

I was already using the power of clean eating, chemical-free living, alternative medicine, yoga, Pilates, rebounding, meditation, talk therapy, and cannabis. However, there was still something that wasn’t fully healed.

At my core, I knew I wasn’t living my best and superfine life.

Stress, anxiety, overwhelm, worry, and fear were my day-to-day emotions.

Familiar, relentless, endless.

A cycle on repeat, unable to be broken for more than just a few days.

Being an Entrepreneur is Not Easy

Entrepreneurship is not easy — especially during a pandemic. It takes guts and a whole lotta grit to begin with. And with a global state of uncertainty, chaos, and concern, it’s been a whole hell of a lot harder than in previous years.

To be a successful entrepreneur, you must believe in yourself so much that you think failing is impossible. Your faith (in yourself and your business) needs to outweigh your fear. And that, my friend, is easier said than done. Trust me, I know.

But it took me a VERY long time to learn this.

Let’s just say before I did, I shed a lot of tears, had many sleepless nights, and had anxiety through the roof — which subsequently caused health issues, including severe sweating, unconscious nighttime teeth grinding, thyroid and menstrual cycle issues.

My go-to joke, when it was all too hard, “I’m going to jump off the Narrowsburg bridge.”

Even though it was tongue-in-cheek, it was my way of expressing my internal despair.

It wasn’t until I started my mindset work that I realized I needed to change the story I was telling myself on repeat. My bridge joke, my incessant fear about the future, worrying, obsessing — it needed to stop. And I was the only one who could stop it.

It was time for me to take control of my thoughts, actions, and behaviors. It was time for me to get unstuck so I could be what I really wanted to be — unstoppable.

Emotional Patterns are Rooted in Childhood Trauma

Unfortunately, I didn’t have the best early childhood and carry my fair share of trauma wounds. And because I grew up in a “don’t talk about it” and “sweep it under the rug” family, I carried deep sadness, shame, and hurt for most of my life.

And while talk therapy helped me unravel my issues, it didn’t stop my extreme fight-or-flight patterns when triggered.

At the time, I didn’t know that all the sad, horrible, and traumatizing things that had ever happened to me (mostly during my early childhood) were trapped inside my cells, my tissue, and my being.

Emotions buried deep, never wanting to be uncovered and processed to keep me “safe.”

I didn’t know that the way our bodies respond to dangerous or frightening situations is called our “startle response.” And, if we experience a situation where it’s not safe (or safe enough) to experience and process our response to this fear or danger, our bodies, and our fascia (the connective tissue in our bodies), hold onto it until the time is safe enough to fully process the response or emotion (which can take years, a lifetime, or not happen at all).

Which then led me further on my healing journey…

Coming into Relationship with Stress

Understanding my relationship with stress has been a game-changer. It’s helped me understand myself and others on a level I never have.

I learned that stress is not universal — it’s as unique as the person experiencing it.

I had to learn that the more I’m in contact with and in relationship to what’s happening in my body (my emotions – aka my energy in motion), the better I’m equipped to deal with it.

I had to let go of my “sweep everything under the rug,” “don’t talk about it,” shut down, fight-or-flight response.

And I did.