Embracing Your Inner Process
When you can compassionately track your inner experience of what is happening in life anything is possible.
Most of us in the heat of the moment want to project whatever internal discomfort we are moving through onto another.
But when you learn to pause and hold space for your inner process, with someone, and be witnessed, you will be changed.
It takes courage to feel deeply.
It takes honesty to be in touch with your true feelings.
It takes acceptance to see and embrace yourself.
Your emotional process is both complex and beautiful.
And, there is simplicity in the moments when you can allow for a deeper emotional process to move underway.
This process gives way to depth and feeling. This process gives way to embodying your truth.
Now is the time of year, in the northern hemisphere, when winter is giving way to Spring.
New life.
New beginnings.
Will you make space for this expansion?
Will you welcome more of your delicate core qualities to be birthed through?
Will you embrace your process, learn from failures, and feel worthy of what is new about you?
Sometimes before you can welcome what is new about you, you must ease through the resistance of wherever you may be holding onto the past.
Spring reveals a time of thawing. What has been quietly gestating under the surface is now emerging, youthfully and expectantly.
Giving way to a supple newness that can uncover sadness and grief.
I’ve been noticing in my healing sessions with clients this month a particular focus on a deeper shedding of old fixed patterns.
What is so profoundly beautiful about the healing process is our capacity to be honest and vulnerable. To admit with an open heart what is changing, letting go, and present for us now.
To feel more in touch with life’s depth.
Along with it comes an acknowledgment of how we are holding space for collective healing as well. It is a co-creative spirit for dialogue and process to usher in something tender and true, authentic and real.
A heart centered collaboration.
As we dive deeper together each one of us recognizes what is coming up for more love, healing, care and tender.
A repair occurs within.
Here we meet ourselves at the threshold of innocence and expansion.
A new recognition of love.
Sometimes this means having the courage to simply show up with nothing more to say or give, and just grieve what is letting go with greater amounts of care and self-compassion.
Now you are emptied.
Now you are new.
Now you have the capacity to shift course in your life.
Now you recognize your own power to heal from within.
It is in these moments a shift in self-perception is possible. A doorway opens and a palpable presence offers you a new choice.
It is true that there are times in life when you endured. You are going to just get along because you don’t know another way.
Enough of this struggle and you began to sense a rift in the fabric of your life. The fixed structures upon which your livelihood have been built are crumbling.
Transitions will always reveal the areas of your life that are letting go of false premises.
Within this eclipse time false structures are giving way to what we are being given the opportunity to see with new eyes and be changed again.
Sometimes it feels like a forceful change.
A choice that feels at odds with where we have been.
A choice that feels perpetuated by states of confusion and emotional overwhelm.
And yet there is an opportunity here within to be shaped by life.
Somewhere deep in the chaos of change we can feel there is more here for us.
We know that if we dig deep enough we might reach the bottom and rebuild an entirely new identity.
We know it is possible simply because we feel it from within.
This is the new stretch of horizon that says: "Here, here, here is your new possibility."
Let go of the shore.
Let yourself trust that something better is here for you.
Only you can reclaim yourself and choose to walk your path.
You are more powerful because of what you endure.
Not because you endured it, but because you came to learn the difference between endurance and grace.