Loving Wisdom for Life's Ebb & Flow
Hi Petals, How are you all? I hope your treating yourselves kindly? I know you’re not supposed to put links to stuff that’s not your own in newsletters but honestly, the most useful thing I’ve read this year is this blog post about our brains[…]
How are you? Never before have we meant that question so much. I believe we have never been more empathetic than we are now. Never more sensitive, compassionate, and uncomfortably aware of our fear-selves and those of others as we are now.
What beautiful things have you seen this month? What are your hopes for this year? In the Old Ways, this is the time of setting intentions; sowing seeds for what you would like to bring to fruition
What is Integrity to you? How does it feel to have it or not and what scenarios or prerequisites do those feelings attach to? If I had to sum it up in a sentence, for me it would be: Finding your truth and having the courage to live from it.
Change and new beginnings feel the ‘cleanest’ when they’re novel. They have the most hope, the most potential. When we try to make something real, we may not have everything we think we need, we may not think we can ‘do it right’. It takes self-love and courage to start from where you’re at[…]
You’re pretty amazing, you know that? You came into this world not even able to support your own head, yet you could command every adult in the room. You were a force to be reckoned with; a perfect, shining light to be worshipped and adored. And you still are. […]
If you’re working on creating more of the life you enjoy vs. just going with the default settings, you’re on a creative journey. It doesn’t matter what it is; learning to live, do or be something new takes courage as we’re deliberately stepping off the well-worn path of […]
It’s Harvest end, and we’re coming in from the outside. The work is done, the quiet reflection and soothing autumn evenings call us inward. To ground our thoughts and deeds, just as the crops have been brought down to the earth once more. We […]
In today’s ‘you can have/be/do anything you want’ times the greatest freedom is in choosing your restrictions. It’s in choosing what you won’t do, what you won’t become and what you don’t need. This frees your energy and attention for you to […]
We all need a sense of safety and security, but when we have too much certainty, we get bored and go in search of something new, so uncertainty itself isn’t a bad thing. I think it’s when uncertainty is happening to us rather than being chosen by us that we feel unsettled as we […]