Incomplete stress responses, reacting vs responding, expanding your window of tolerance, and welcoming yourself home. An invitation to get curious and allow exactly where you are, to be enough at this time. Getting curious: – how often do you run from discomfort? – are you able to be in the present moment or does your anxiety, rumination, to-do lists, etc., …
I used to…
I used to scream or drop to the floor crying when someone walked in the room unexpectedly. I used to carry constant tension in my body. I used to go for massages and feel the RMT’s arms shaking from the pressure they were using and I still couldn’t feel it. I have very few childhood memories. I used to live …
I heard myself in another Mother today
I heard myself in another mother at the beach today. The gentle but firm, almost cautious tone.The endless listening as her child did not respond to her questions but continued to share the internal mental dialogue that was running in his mind.The timers, and gentle reminders.The carefully expressed, calculated front loading.The patience and softness in her heart as it was …
Baptized by Nature
I woke today with a call from my soul. It was time to be baptized, again, by nature.The tide was not on my sideButThe earth, she still holds me when water can’t.The sand, she still grounds me; and the energy of the tide going outWater returning to her sourceWith it, it pulls what is ready to be released from me …
