Now is the time...

Life is hard right now. Though of course, you already know that and you don’t need another newsletter talking about the hardness of it all. What I do find to be valuable and necessary right now is the reminder that because of this hardness, everything in life has been made a little bit harder. That includes the joys of life, the celebrations, the excitement, they too have been muted by this hardness. We have less access to joy and hope the way we used to. Sure we can create more of it. Unique forms of it. Different ways for us to call the joy, the light into or forward in our lives. Yet still, with this change comes a natural mourning that little by little, moment by moment, we are pushed to work through. I haven’t hugged my 99 year old grandmother in almost a year. I couldn’t celebrate my dear friend's engagement. I miss holding my best friends babies, a true torture for this touch love language gal. You’ve been experiencing these hard things too I know, and though each hard moment as an isolated incident might not break you, it’s the collective holding of these small → big moment to moment hard things that just might.

Now is the time to anchor yourself into your body. Connect down to your power. Your body is important and needs to be taken care of. Your mental state is important and needs to be taken care of. YOU, need to be taken care of and I wonder if you too might have forgotten that anchoring yourself into your body, your power, is exactly what holds you through each hard moment...

“Are you placing all of your energy on getting through the hard moments?
Have you forgotten to anchor yourself?
What are you doing to support yourself through the hard?
What are you doing at this time to feel calm, safe, anchored in your body?”

These might seem like small questions, though the truth is we must continue asking this of ourselves, for ourselves. Otherwise it begs for a breakdown.

A pipe in my kitchen exploded the other day spilling water all over in my 15 minutes between private clients. I stood in the puddles and cried. It wasn’t this one hard thing that broke me. It was all the little hard moments that had happened before this one. In between tears I looked at the clock and gave myself 3 minutes to release these tears before taking a breath, pulling it together emotionally, throwing towels on the water and stepping back into a client session. Five minutes into the session, I was laughing. My client was telling me a great story, I was connected to Spirit, dropped back into that Universal flow state, and I thought how funny life can be. To be crying one minute and laughing the next. I’m not so sure that crying and laughing are that different. They are simply two avenues of emoting. Different energy releases for your body.

I was able to show up for this session because of those 3 minutes I gave myself. Though if I had had more time I certainly would have taken it, 3 minutes was all it took for my body to open the valve and release the hard it was feeling. It opened me up to then release through laughter next, which in turn immediately opened space in my body to receive downloads, connect within. Moving from crying to laughing was a natural state my body followed having taken its cues from the container I’ve created for it’s emoting over the years.

When your body starts showing you signs of physical ailment, pain, tension, when your energy levels feel seemingly low, or you find yourself taking a deep breath at the end of the day, it’s your body’s way of telling you it needs a release. Have you forgotten to breathe all day long? What is your body in need of? Listen in. Nothing is wrong with you, you’re just finding your way through the hard and you dear friends, are doing a darn good job at it. Sometimes 3 minutes is all you have, and other times, 3 minutes is all you need.