This week I said goodbye to my 10-year-old Basset Hound, Rocky. We had been treating him for years for Addison’s disease but it was only in the last year and a half that his health declined, most likely due to cancer.
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Today I was taking a walk when I noticed my shadow and wondered what would happen if I looked down and my shadow didn’t exist?
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As I reflect on these chaotic times, I find it difficult to unravel one single thread from the knot of current events. We have so much coming up to be healed: a pandemic, racism, political division—the list goes on.
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This week marks the anniversary of a painful and profoundly meaningful moment in my life. I lost my newborn baby, Catherine Rose, seventeen years ago. Blooming Rose Healing was named in her honor.
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Though life does seem determined to be a beautiful, and entrancing distraction...our participation in this dance of distraction also makes more real, and more necessary, our ability to return to essential ground, to an essential person or an essential work. -David Whyte
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I find it helpful to recognize that disruption is always evidence that consciousness is transforming. And oftentimes we receive wake-up calls in the form of physical manifestations. So how can we use this challenging time to accept change and perhaps even find inspiration? How can we shift our reactions?
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Last month I was in California for a weekend event with English poet David Whyte. As I was listening to him share some of his beautiful poems about friendship, my best friend was dying of cancer.
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As we welcome a new year, it’s natural to think about new beginnings and set goals for what we’d like to manifest in our lives. We may set resolutions, join a gym, create a vision board, or commit to a self-care regime. But our efforts won’t be effective if we don’t first make room in our physical and energetic body for change.
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In order to experience higher vibrations, you have to integrate the lower vibrations. You can do this by coming into the moment and breathing. This opens your heart, your oxygen levels increase, and your vibration rises.
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“You are brave and aware enough to think outside the square, beyond what your peers may consider normal. You are supposed to be questioning things right now.”
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When we connect with our breath, we are clearer about our values, beliefs, and who we are in the world. It impacts everything around us. It heals others.
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Any time there is loss there is grief. And that grief can have lasting, profound effects on our physical and emotional health. Grief carries powerful information, yet it’s our human nature to want to avoid it.
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I chose DISRUPTION as my theme this month because we continue to be tested by current events. It seems to me that a battle of love versus hate is occurring to disrupt our beliefs, and it’s time to look at how we react.
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Life is unpredictable. Nature reminds me of this with extreme weather changes, earthquakes, and floods. I see it in my personal life as well.
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To be honest with myself or with someone else means I have to give up trying to control something. I have to be willing to lose something.
To me, honesty is about owning myself and all of my truths.
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Grief isn’t just a physical feeling; it’s a wound that takes place on a soul level. It’s meant to be deeply felt. But we’re so caught up in distracting ourselves with all the busyness of the world that we rarely allow ourselves to pause.
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We are all constantly moving forward, sometimes in big, life-changing leaps, and at other times in moment-by-moment subtle shifts. Sometimes our forward motion happens in the sunshine, but just as often we need the build-up and charge of a thunderstorm to help us change.
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The whales teach me that whatever happens, happens. I can’t control the weather or the way the whales will show up. I try to hold on to that lesson, knowing I will continue to be challenged.
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To honor means to respect something or to fulfill an obligation. When I stop second guessing myself and my decisions and simply take care of what’s in front of me, I’m honoring myself and my experiences. I’m trusting that I followed my heart and that it led me to the present moment, and that I’m right where I need to be.
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This month the idea of DISCOMFORT is calling to me. Specifically, I’ve been asking: Why isn’t it OK to just sit in a state of discomfort?
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