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I've been thinking a lot about emotions lately while listening to Brene Brown's book "Atlas of the Heart" (which I highly recommend) and after watching Pixar's "Turning Red" (which I loved!). This strategy for greeting emotions gently instead of trying to push them away I learned from Dr. Becky Kennedy, and it's been very helpful to me over the past few months as I try to be more aware of the feelings I'm having and learn from them, rather than being overwhelmed by them or trying to just bury them in the name of "positive thinking." I hope something here is helpful for you too. ❤️

Self-care is doing chores?? Yes, sometimes. Learning that lesson has been important for me! You don't have to do everything for yourself all the time (everyone needs help sometimes!), but when you can't get out of it and have trouble mustering the energy, remember that you're giving future you a gift. Maybe it will help. ❤️

"An 83-year-old man was preparing to step onto the down escalator at the Holyoke Mall in Ingleside, Massachusetts, last summer... but suddenly stopped. Fear was obvious in his eyes, and he trembled. That did not go unnoticed. 23-year-old Alonzo Johnson caught it; he could tell the man was scared to death to step onto that escalator. So Alonzo quickly changed his course and headed over to the frightened, elderly man. He asked the man if he could help him down the escalator. The man said Yes, and Alonzo took him by the arm and the two of them carefully stepped onto the escalator. A friend Alonzo was with in the mall took a photo of the two riding down the escalator and posted it on Facebook. It quickly went viral and had more than 420,000 likes and more than 25,000 comments. One of those comments read: “In about an hour, the evening news will air and we'll be reminded of division, race wars, political mud-slinging, shootings and other heartaches. But today, violence, race, age, politics and other social lines were blurred and one person simply helped another.” Alonzo, who had no idea a photo was taken of the moment, said: “My mom always tells us to be nice and do the right thing... It's really the way I was brought up and how I was raised.” And from where I sit, Alonzo's mom did a pretty darn good job bringing him up." ❤️

The Spring Equinox: Creating Balance and Wholeness

We are now approaching the Spring Equinox, which occurs on March 20th this year (in the northern hemisphere). I would like to share what my experience with this season has been so far in hopes that it may resonate and help others navigate this time period (which lasts until Beltaine on May 1st).

Being a time of equal light/masculine and dark/feminine energies, balance is a central theme of this season. And there tends to be a major emphasis on bringing more balance to my life. This has included:

Honoring polarity was extremely important to the ancient Celts. They believed that when we work with two seemingly opposing forces, we allow for a sacred “third thing” to emerge. Working with desire and fear to allow for manifestation is a fundamental example of this. Here is what this dance has looked like for me over the years:

With the Divine Masculine energies rising and strengthening day by day, there also tends to be an emphasis on manifestation at this time. There is a forward push to take action towards my desires. I have been guided to specific manifestation practices as well (visualization, acting as if, etc.)

Healing my inner masculine also tends to be a major focus of this season. This has included ongoing learning around how to:

I have been shown that the key to all of this is self-love, self-acceptance, and self-compassion. And I have been shown how this is all too often missing in my life; the ways that I judge and reject myself are highlighted for me to heal during this season. And I have been guided to books that have helped me tremendously with this healing process, including Untamed by Glennon Doyle and How to Do the Work by Dr. Nicole LePera. 

Overall, the Spring Equinox season tends to be a beautiful time of deep healing for me. I am shown what to do with what came up during the dark part of the year. Clear guidance forward emerges.  ❤️

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Karma is the Sanskrit word for action. It is equivalent to Newton’s law of ‘every action must have a reaction’.

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