On Taking Care
Hello dear friend. The world feels heavy, I feel this deeply, too. This is not a list of to dos, or remedies you can buy or a blueprint for how to do xyz, but more of any invitation inward. A place where we can be with each other in all of our discomfort, questions and tender moments. A place we can find refuge in the great big unknown. Shared experiences that feel familiar, a sacred container that can hold big complex dynamics where the answers do not come in ways we would’ve thought, but they arise in the living moment in an instant awareness.
I have been operating from a deeply wounded space for a very long time. Feeling a bit like a dog chasing my tail. For me the awareness that my spinning was truly coming from this overpowering internal critic was reflected back to me in one of the most powerful ways. That this critic not only affects my ability to move in the world, but when this critic comes out it can be projected onto others so easily. Creating an impossible barrier between myself and the world around me. It shows up in how I take care of myself, my loved ones and my work.
“I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we’ll ever do.” - Brene Brown
Entering my heart space. This internal well that is always available to guide, and yet we have been so turned away from our true knowings. The knowings that come from a heart space. I have believed that the more we evolve as humans and face so much of our personal and collective trauma the healing process becomes more nuanced. There are threads of similarities, but we are all truly on our individual paths of healing. The state of the world leaves us with a collective trauma, but it will touch us differently. One because of the massive injustices that run endlessly in our systems, but also we have faced our own pieces of childhood trauma that when we grow we are trying to navigate and put together the pieces. Those quotes that are running through the collective reminding us to BE KIND, because we truly never know the battles someone is dealing with has never been so important.
In times of pandemic when we are inundated with information we have a few choices. To endlessly search for more information to guide us, look to the outer experts only for direction, allow a little bit of both, OR create a deep connection to our hearts to know truth for our individual life through and through allowing this to guide our decisions. This will and most likely should look different for each of us. We have different backgrounds, needs, trust in ourselves, and awareness of options. This is the work. Letting us move one step at a time with the gentle nudges along the way. Trusting ourselves and being attuned here is the most important thing we can do for our health, mental health and families. We are truly the only ones who know what is best for us, and anything that comes from the outside is an option, but not THE WAY.
My hope for myself and this work is to be a reminder that the medicine is within. The medicine for all of our needs. That we were born with an innate knowing how to take care of ourselves and our families, but we have been conditioned to think the experts know best. This is very damaging to our psyche and our intrinsic nature as human beings. This ability to tune in gives us the ability to reach out for the help we need when we need it, and be guided when the time calls.
Heartfelt Medicine has been created from a place that the only way out is through. The wisdom lives inside of each of us, deep in the well of our hearts. There isn’t a healer, teacher, or wise one that has our answers. They can hold up the mirror to us, but the answer lives inside of us. This is the bravest, most wild part of the work remembering to trust. This is my life’s work to remind myself to tune inward, and something I am so honored to walk alongside of you.
“Maturity is listening to your intuition even when society and people in your life advise against it. A lot of advice comes from fear, people wishing for you to stay with the herd and do the normal thing. Taking a calculated risk is not recklessness, it is fearlessness.”- Yung Pueblo
One step at a time. One lesson at a time. We find our way.