“Soft reopening”, healing journey supports and gratitudes, helichrysum, and more…
As some of you know, I injured my ankle a few days ago, during the last mile of my backpacking trip…
May you feel the sun shining in your heart and spirit today and always.
I'm sending your big beautiful Heart so much love and appreciation:
Thank you for being You.
Strong, vulnerable, resilient, powerful, courageous, miraculous, caring, loving, feeling, vibrant, healing, beautiful.
Dear gorgeous humans,
I'm writing to you with some reminders of how to support the nervous system at this time- your own and others'. How can we find our feet on the ground, our heart center, our breath? To anchor ourselves in truth, kindness, caring, and love?
In this Unknowing
is a deeper Knowing-
Feet finding the path.
A blossoming in the heart,
a fire in the belly.
Weeping into singing.
Chamomile is on my mind today. Have you noticed her springing up recently, in the pathways along the trails, and wildly in the hills? Such a simple medicine, and yet so potent.
Sometimes part of what we can do in the moment is to offer ourselves- and others- a soft place to land. To actually be the soft place to land. Do you know what I mean? Making your body and heart like a cushion or pillow, to embrace and hold; ease and comfort.
Spring is sunshine and birdsong and flowers, yes! And- Spring is also wind and rain and storms. Spring is feeling all the feels, grieving the losses for who and what didn't make it through the winter, mourning pain and suffering.
On Earth Wisdom and Lupine (and more)…
In a conversation with my wise daughter recently, they mentioned the incredible importance of staying connected with the Earth and earth wisdom as we navigate
How can we feel hope and possibility- and even joy- in our hearts, in our minds, in our body and soul, in the world and for our planet? Many of us are feeling a lot of fear and despair, and it can be so paralyzing. The medicine to address fear (based on my training and lived experience) is grounding, breathing, and love.
I'm just writing to let you know I'm thinking of you, and sending care and support. No matter your circumstances or situation, these are not easy times. Some of you have asked me about tools for engaging with the constant onslaught... I will share what I am finding helpful, in hope that it may resonate for some of you.
Today is the second new moon after winter solstice, a time for feeling the quickening of the womb of Earth, the sap running in the trees, the first buds and blossoms and buckeye leaves burgeoning, birdsong and bulbs blooming. Cherry-plum blossoms, magnolias, daffodils, currently showing.
We are entering the year of Yin Wood Snake.
Into the darkness we go.
Sinking into fertile Earth,
luxuriating into the welcoming Night,
releasing into Deep Waters.
Solace and Resource
a rich embrace.
Here, in the spaces between, is possibility.
In the spaces between and within our cells, there is possibility for healing and transformation.
In the space between and within our breaths, lives deep peace, lives hope.
Savoring joy and gratitude is revolutionary and essential in these turbulent times…
Summer solstice blessing/poem
Wow, Spring is really exuberantly blooming all over the place! I'm so thankful for the gorgeous glorious reminders of hope, joy, magic, rebirth, liberation.
A poem of hope…
Tomorrow is the second new moon after winter solstice, marking the beginning of Spring on the Chinese calendar, and the beginning of this Wood Dragon year…
New Year’s thoughts and offering