Inspiration
Learning to be present with the uncertainty, grief, and promise that are present within any change is the secret magic that creates transformation.
I explore these themes regularly in my monthly essays.
As you read, I hope you are invited deeper into your own experience and feel less alone in your time of expansion.
The Magic of Naming
It is the naming of a thing that creates a break in the barrier between what is and what could be. Whether we feel fully ready or not, through that break new life comes flowing into our world to shake us up. The change we fear, resist, deny, or dread demands to be seen, spoken to, and contended with.
Embodied Living
This separation makes it easy to imagine that the soul is something to keep distinct and safe from the body. A sacred animating force that should not be sullied by the body’s experiences.
A deeper spiritual consciousness to shield from the worldly.
When The Exorcist Meets Rumpelstiltskin
When I forget my access to this power, Perfectionism is one of the things that takes possession of me. I struggle against the restraints but it keeps my movements small and pained. I bargain and beg, make all kinds of deals with it and it promises to “help” me make something shiny for a high price.
“Into the light of a dark, black night.”
When we’re feeling our way around in the dark, whether we’re ready to trust it or not, whatever appears at our fingertips is an important piece of the puzzle. An important part of how our life will fit together when all is said and done. Even if right now--with no larger picture available for reference--it just looks like an out-of-place, oddly shaped puzzle piece.
Darkness, let your peace flow through me
In the western imagination, dark and light have been typecast in limited roles, influencing the stories we tell ourselves about the world and each other.