Oh, dear Miko, tears are streaming, permission given in some way I desperately needed to read, to feel, to be right now. So many thanks for your deeply insightful heart. I will share your wisdom with all those I know on this path of being who we are now without any polish. We all need this message of LOVE.
Sending you so much love on this Saturday morning. You are not a project needing to be completed. You are a soul in evolution, a being of light and tenderness, and sometimes the most radical, important thing you can do is set down the weight for a while and simply.... exist.
Wow, this just made me stop for a second, look around and laugh at my cat on the porch as she puffed up, ready to take on a German shepherd that just walked by. Healing, trauma, has nothing to do with this small, sweet moment in time. Thank you so much for your always inciteful, kind words that help me stop for a second and just breathe.
Oh I love that image! Sit with it, if you can: your powerful, feisty cat ready to take on the German Shepherd! Let it register in your body— the humor, the love. So often, we get wrapped up in heaviness, even on the healing path; lightness is just as essential as shadow work, though.
Like you said, breathe. Stop. Be here, in the moment, from time to time. It won’t always be perfect. But it can be yours.
There is much truth in your words. I’ve been working on living in the present since the loss of my child several years ago. I have also found it helpful to listen to the lyrics of the D Crosby song “Set that baggage down” to visualize releasing past feelings.
Oh Sherry, I am so sorry for your loss. Sending you hugs. The visualization of setting the baggage down is so powerful— we carry grief like a tangible weight, after all.
Utterly beautiful. I know it well - the relentless call To Become that can drown out any invitation to just be. A kind of tyranny of constant self-consciousness. You made me think of Mary Oliver's poem 'The Wild Geese.' That's always a good thing. Write on, beautiful soul.
Powerful poetry.
Oh, dear Miko, tears are streaming, permission given in some way I desperately needed to read, to feel, to be right now. So many thanks for your deeply insightful heart. I will share your wisdom with all those I know on this path of being who we are now without any polish. We all need this message of LOVE.
Sending you so much love on this Saturday morning. You are not a project needing to be completed. You are a soul in evolution, a being of light and tenderness, and sometimes the most radical, important thing you can do is set down the weight for a while and simply.... exist.
Wow, this just made me stop for a second, look around and laugh at my cat on the porch as she puffed up, ready to take on a German shepherd that just walked by. Healing, trauma, has nothing to do with this small, sweet moment in time. Thank you so much for your always inciteful, kind words that help me stop for a second and just breathe.
Oh I love that image! Sit with it, if you can: your powerful, feisty cat ready to take on the German Shepherd! Let it register in your body— the humor, the love. So often, we get wrapped up in heaviness, even on the healing path; lightness is just as essential as shadow work, though.
Like you said, breathe. Stop. Be here, in the moment, from time to time. It won’t always be perfect. But it can be yours.
There is much truth in your words. I’ve been working on living in the present since the loss of my child several years ago. I have also found it helpful to listen to the lyrics of the D Crosby song “Set that baggage down” to visualize releasing past feelings.
Oh Sherry, I am so sorry for your loss. Sending you hugs. The visualization of setting the baggage down is so powerful— we carry grief like a tangible weight, after all.
Utterly beautiful. I know it well - the relentless call To Become that can drown out any invitation to just be. A kind of tyranny of constant self-consciousness. You made me think of Mary Oliver's poem 'The Wild Geese.' That's always a good thing. Write on, beautiful soul.