I’m in the business of noticing things.
Life’s intricacies.
A detective to my surroundings.
And what I feel when I’m in them.
Like when I kept purchasing outdated juice a few weeks back. At first it was an accident, then a pattern. One I chose to notice because patterns are telling, and that one was asking me to take note of what was expired in how I was living. Or like how January saw me obsessed with the colour green: the colour of the heart chakra - and shared humanity. (A theme running through all of 2020.) I wore a green scarf, a green ring and felt pulled to drinking green smoothies again; a pattern I noticed and shared with my community over on Instagram to prepare folks for what we were going to be up against. I didn’t know it would be a pandemic, just that we were stronger together and our togetherness would be healing.
When I first started my blog I wrote a lot about love. Mostly heartbreak because I’m fascinated by feelings and healing and wanted to share what I knew — maybe those blog posts are how you found my work? Over the last year though, the conversation has been shifting and I’ve been sharing more and more on manifesting new love, because last March I met my current partner and I’m learning so much about what it means to be in a healthy partnership. Not surprising, I receive a lot of questions from readers and listeners on how I manifested him
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Read MoreI don’t know if it’s our current astrology, or the fact that we are at the start of a new month before a new year, but something on my mind lately is the idea of self worth.
And how having worth is a choice we make, in each and every moment.
Especially in those that feel most blurry.
Moments where we aren’t sure of our responsibilities; when the empath in us knows what another needs and also that we aren’t meant to fix anybody. Moments when we see our own part in an argument or falling out and want to take accountability because we always have, and being the one to apologize would be easiest on everyone involved. Dis-including us, but we’re tough and are used to being the one to carry what others won’t. Moments where being responsible is our default response. Moments when everything in us tells us it’s our job to be another’s support, even if being so hurts so much and leaves us left out.
Moments when our identity is so emeshed in helping that we don’t know how to be anything else. Who are we if we aren’t kind and considerate?
Those moments are the moments when we need to choose our worth, most. Those are the moments where we have to make a choice to stand for what we deserve.
Read MoreWhen I started this post, I didn’t know what I’d type. Just that I wanted to sneak off to a cafe and write.
Life.
Because mine has changed and has been changing and I feel I am now just catching up with all the changes happening. All the changes asked of me. By me. I asked for all this; the partner, the creative city, the burning away of responsibilities no longer a fit for me, but change isn’t easy and for so much of this year life was happening quickly, and I was flowing downstream, submerged and unable to breathe. Holding on for dear life, Uranus with a chokehold on my sun sign (I’m Taurus and woah has our need for routine and consistency been put to the test by Uranus and it’s need to disrupt everything), waiting for the moment I felt fine.
Life was good, and I was in sensory overload.
Getting everything I wanted and feeling like I couldn’t cope.
And I think it’s okay to admit that it’s okay to be uncomfortable, even in the midst of things working out. And I think it’s important to recognize that getting what we want involves so much change in who we are; an alchemy of our hearts and how we identify ourselves. And that no matter how incredible, life changes can be hard. And the most beautiful moments, difficult.
When I first met my partner (a fellow entrepreneurial soul) we were talking about how we each got our start in business. And for him it was making cold calls. And I thought, oh no. Definitely not. That wouldn’t work with my skillset.
For me, it started internal.
I needed to know my worth, first and foremost,
and create a foundation (website and signature offering) that felt like my authentic truth.
If you’re on Instagram, or part of personal development circles, you’ve probably heard about the ‘need to show up’ and if you’ve been following my work, you’ve probably heard me speak those words as well.
Because you do.
Earth is undergoing a major shift and it is our gifts and abilities that are creating the new systems we’ll live in. Systems and ways of being that can’t be birthed if we don’t first share our authentic selves with this world.
But as motivating as ‘showing up’ and ‘the world needs what you’ve got!’ can sound, speaking up and being who we really are isn’t always easy for healers and creatives because for centuries, “being ourselves” was not safe. For centuries, being ourselves meant burnt at the stake. (Witch trials.) And though this memory is unconscious, it keeps so many of us from leaving the spiritual closet and sharing ourselves. We want to follow our path and we want to share our work with those we are here to help but we feel held back because part of us remembers the last time we did and that part has vowed to never again feel what she felt the day she was killed off.
This fear is known as the persecution wound and it’s a wound that sits in our collective bones (and more specifically, the throat chakra of us as individuals) and because I’ve had to face and re-face it with my work, I wanted to write a post outlining the signs you might carry it too. Because your work to show up might require a bit more than a few motivational quotes, and if it does, I want you to know you aren’t alone in what you’re experiencing or going through.
Read MoreWhen it feels too much, remember it’s your presence on
this planet that lifts us up.
When it feels too much, remember you are more than enough.
Because without you, we can’t be us.
A planet remembering love.
When it feels too much, trust.
Things have a way of working out.
When it feels too much, know you aren’t alone.
You arrived with a team of guides to help you walk this planet home.
When it feels too much, rest your heart.
Ours beat in gratitude for your willingness to not give up.