Someone else’s abandonment wound is not your responsibility

We don’t know how long we have in these bodies, on this Earth. We don’t know how much time we have with anything we are blessed to experience in this life

How are You relating to You?

Beyond expectations 

Beyond assumptions

Beyond labels 

Your Embodied Integrity is a Gift to the World

When we awaken to the reality of our lives and are ready to take ownership for our part in continuing a behavior, a belief, a way of being that is not in alignment with the truth of who we are and the life we desire to lead, there can be an experience of immense pain

I am allergic to a false sense of urgency

And yet I still catch myself, from time to time, placing an unconscious false timeline (aka expectation) on when something “should” be done or “should” arrive. I see this in myself in dating & work, two areas where I’m in an evolving study & practice.

“Is that what you really want?”

I heard myself say this out loud and clear in my sleep, effectively waking myself up for the remainder of pre-alarm hours and minutes, 3:03am to 4:40am.

There is a palpable shift happening, individually & collectively — Have you felt it?
People waking up to what’s not working in their lives.
Naming it. Calling it.

Desiring a shift

I consistently ask the Universe and my Soul for the layers of armor and protection around my heart to be shed — for the Truth to be revealed to me so I may live and love with an undefended heart.

I know the experiences I’ve lived through have made me strong, and that the protection was necessary from the earliest days of my life. And I know I have needed to adjust and shift this armor to make it through what Life itself brings forward to help us grow and evolve as Souls on this planet here to remember Love is not meant to be encoded in Fear.

Are you creating experience of self-worth based on a construct that was given to you or are you creating in alignment with your Soul’s Truth?

Your Worth does not exist Outside of You.

Your Work does not have to require Struggle.

You do not have to Prove your Worth.

You do not have to Hustle to Get Worthiness.

You are Enough, As You Are.

You are born Worthy,

And You are Loved.

I am writing to you from a place where I learned so much about Hard Work, Struggle, Sacrifice. My parents built this cottage with their bare hands -

The Alchemy of Gratitude

When we embody the energy of gratitude we align with the energy of value — each item we name and feel grateful for is an expression of what we choose to value.⠀⠀

It is easy to name those things in our life that we feel good about having or experiencing.

This is an invitation to expand your concept of gratitude to include those experiences and circumstances that are difficult, not what you want, and quite frankly can suck in the moment.

We are asked to remember that all the world / Universe / God / Source / Beyond / etc. offers us is for us, even the rough spots, sh*t shows, and traumas. They all serve our growth and expansion, if we alter our perception.

If we chose to value those “undesirables” with the wisdom that they too contain medicine *for* our healing, growth, and expansion, then we create the opportunity to deeply release & transmute the negativity we carry about them.

Receptivity is the energy of opportunity. When we are receptive, the energy is open, allowing, wondrous. Close your eyes and just feel into the word
R E C E P T I V E.  It has a gentleness to it, a quality of potentiality.  

When we think about potential -- what could happen -- there is also a degree of uncertainty that comes with it. We don’t quite know what will drop in.

As we turn towards Fall in the Northern Hemisphere, we are invited us to look at the systems and structures by which we live our lives, and serve the planet through us be-ing us.  How we are be-ing to ourselves and to others is just as important as what we are do-ing with our time, energy, and resources.

What area of the whole human wheel of life needs some attention, some housekeeping, an upgrade or a deep-dive clearing?

We cannot expect we can show up for others - our family, friends, colleagues, partners - as our best selves if we don't first show up for ourselves with the Courage and Strength (Leo qualities) to choose a higher choice for the expression of our Be-ing. To make the necessary internal changes to then be expressed on the world's stage.  This is how we begin to live a whole human life, with Self-Leadership for our thoughts and choices, Self-Responsibility for what we create in the world, grounded in the Wisdom of the Body, the Truth of our Soul, crafted with Love and Care for Self and Others. 

Mouna, or silence, is a Yogic practice of keeping quiet, and measuring one's expression of the senses.

To observe Input and Output.

Think about that for a moment.

In.

Out.

In.

Out.

Like the breath.

In practicing Mouna we become aware of boundaries, the liminal space between In and Out.

We become aware of our internal state, our feelings, just by getting quiet.

Summer Solstice is the half-way point of the year, the Summer Equinox, the start of Summer in the Northern Hemisphere.

If we consider the entire year as a cycle, this day in the Northern Hemisphere is when the energy of the sun is at its highest expression before it shifts direction, before the light descends steadily back into darkness until her sister, Winter Solstice, arrives. 

And in the Southern hemisphere, today is when we have the darkest of days - an invitation to be at still and at peace in the dark - before coming back into the light. 

We are all on this planet together. No matter which hemisphere we happen to be in, we will feel both the energies of light and dark, the duality that is the spiral of Nature.

When we compromise on saying what we need, or hold back on sharing what we feel because we are afraid of how someone will respond, we sacrifice our own Power. We deny the validity of our thoughts and feelings. We effectively choose Fear over our own Truth. 

We do this enough times in the workplace, or with romantic partners, friends, family, etc., and we may feel like we don't even know what we think, feel, and believe anymore because we have so blocked ourselves from expressing our true experience of life.

Creativity is a playground for making meaning out of the experience of our lives

Can you feel it?  The shift that has been taking place in the background since the start of the year? It's not quite done yet.  We are almost there.  Soon. Patience.  Rest, in the Mystery.

This extra-long, cold winter has encouraged us to be still.  To soak in the darkness of winter.  To tune in to our own internal compass, our intuition. 

We've also needed all this gnarly astrological energy that has been drawing up to the surface those things blocking our vision, in order to clear the path forward to what it is we want to create next.  

This has been a time to gestate. To release and heal.