… The beauty is this: we have a choice. To have the COURAGE to FEEL IT and stay open. The magic is just on the other side. To realize that these ‘undesired’ feelings are gatekeepers urging you - “Yes, dear one. You’ve found it. Look there. A few paces more. Keep your heart open, there’s a treasured truth waiting to be revealed.” A power-source we have long-suppressed…

LUNGS and GRIEF ::: Something you might not know about me. In the late summer of 2017 I developed pneumonia. It was persistent and very difficult to overcome. So much so that it affected every lobe of both lungs, and officially recurred 4 times over the course of the last two and a half years…

In traditional Chinese medicine, the lungs are emotionally connected with 💙G R I E F 💙. And pneumonia is related to emotional suffocation. Two years ago, I confided in a shaman friend, “I feel like I am feeling the grief of the world.” 🌎 It was not just a feeling, but a knowing.

… And now, here we are. 2020. 🤯 The world is grappling with a respiratory-related illness. And her people are grieving- physically, emotionally, financially... in so many ways, and all at the same time. 🌎

This time of grief will end.

We will heal. Collectively.

So what do I feel now? 💚

I feel our hearts opening. Massive openings…

Maybe you forgot you’ve been holding your breath...

Because you’ve been under for so long... But suddenly something warm and bright parts the water and you know it’s for you.

Maybe it IS you...

And you have a choice:

Stay under, or rise up.

Come up for air.

The world is ready for you.

Or maybe it’s not.

But YOU’RE ready.

And it’s time.

Created for my practice, Gateways Chiropractic, and the beautiful, vibrant women and life-givers we serve.

“I don’t care what other people think.”… This is a lie. We say it to protect ourselves, to create space between us and others, to dull the pain. We are tribal beings - by nature we are invested in each other and the collective. We care. Our survival depends on it.

So does that mean other people’s thoughts, beliefs, opinions, and judgements define you?

No. Absolutely not.

As a part of my awakening process I’ve learned the beauty of detaching from the collective, from what others think of me - so that I can re-set and tune into what *I* think of me, what I feel about the world, the collective, and my place in it…

Angels of God’s Light,

Please intensify the Light of God

within me, and all around me…

“We are the lovers, the birthers, the guides,

and the guardians.

We are the cups of creation,

Instruments of miracles,

Vessels of the Divine.

We are the life-givers,

The holders of the Light…”