Rosemary: Trust in the Absence of Clarity
If you can disconnect from everything that you identify as being you—your labels, your titles, your stories, your lineage, your personality traits, preferences, affiliations and habits—if you can disconnect for just a moment, you may allow yourself a glimpse of who you truly are.
Moving at the Speed of Nature
As we create a new story for our lives we are having to relearn all the ways we move and engage with the world. And it takes so much courage to “be alive in the shatter”, to keep getting up after being knocked down over and over as the world and life as we have known it seemingly falls apart around us.
Trigger Warning: Embodying Self Compassion with Black Eyed Susan
When faced with taxing relationships, stressful situations, divisive social media, aggressive marketing, the frightening news, general annoyances and the seemingly endless barrage of life’s challenges and difficulties… How do you feel?
It’s ALL LOVE (And Sometimes It Hurts Like Hell)
I used to believe that all emotions on our polarity planet were rooted in either fear or love. My truth now is all there is is LOVE and that FEAR is an illusion created by our minds to keep us safe from feeling. Fear distorts the truth of who we are and what the world is, and obscures what Nature is always reflecting to me…which is LOVE.
My Great Reset (Work in Progress)
If I crave or deeply desire to live in a world that is peaceful, loving and respectful of all life, I know that I have to include myself in that mix. And this journey, this experience of life is a practice after all—an ongoing re-membering of the truth that we are all our own experts, our own healers and every living soul is deeply connected.
What is Real Anyway?
Forget-Me-Not (AWARENESS) reminds us that life is far more than what we can perceive with our physical senses alone. She helps us to expand our present moment awareness and connect us with our imagination which, I am slowly realizing, is quite possibly the “sense” that we humans use the most! Except that we are not AWARE of it!
The Art of Transformation
Nettle breaks down your ego. You can’t get too pushy with Nettle or she will sting! She humbles you. You have to move mindfully, with focused intention, and an open heart. And in your loving and tender and honest openness, she deeply nourishes and fortifies you—transforming you from the inside out.
Plumbago: Be A Flower
When we are inevitably faced with the scary, often painful, dark and mysterious, messy and uncontrollable world, faced with our failures, our shortcomings, our anger—when we are faced with LIFE ITSELF—perhaps we can also remember how to embody the light and infinite potential that we are also blessed with.
A Call to Presence
Perceiving a different relationship with our bodies and our world. There is nothing like pain to help us understand what it means to be present and in this dense world of the physical, pain is a most powerful teacher. Have you seen the thorns on a Hawthorn tree?
It's All Vibrations Baby
Is it possible that vibrancy can also look dull, exhausted, lifeless, even ill perhaps? Is it possible that vibrancy has very little to do with outer appearances and everything to do with inner vibrations?
It's a Matter of Life AND Death
I am thinking about how life is such a gift, such a blessing, and far too short to be wasted worrying about when it will end! And so, in every precious moment I choose life. Life AND death. Grief AND joy. Dark AND light. Pain AND love. All of it. There is no end, just ever expanding consciousness.
Nettle: On Holding Space
Nettle teaches me so much about creating and holding sacred space for this work of becoming—for myself, for my loved ones, and for those I serve, as together we go through the uncomfortable process of growth and transformation.
Child's Play is Serious Business
The deeply held belief of separation—from spirit, from our inner knowing, from the Earth and from each other—is quite possibly the root trauma that informs how we create and perpetuate our collective nightmare day after day, generation after generation.
Come Back to Life!
I think I am finally getting it!! Feeling it. EMBODYING flow. Allowing life to flow through me and express itself in new ways. Embracing new ways of doing things even without a clear plan and letting go of trying to control how life evolves and grows. Just like my plant spirit friends are always showing me.
Unwinding Productivity Programming
Being busy, working hard, is seemingly a great way to convince ourselves that we are in control of our lives when, in truth, life is something that we have absolutely no control over! Even following my heart, engaging in my “heartswork,” my ego keeps trying to assert control by telling me there is more to do. And there is ALWAYS more we can do. I’m not arguing the truth of that, but what if we allow ourselves to live from a place of contentment where everything is done that needs to be done?
Chamomile Sunrise
Like the sun I stand in my power. I speak my truth. I connect with and stay in my body even when it hurts. I feel everything and I unconditionally accept and have compassion for it all. We are the children of Earth. Made of the Earth and illuminated by the Divine light of the Universe.
White Pine: We are Basically Just Complicated Houseplants
We are truly just like complicated houseplants, and our wise bodies—which hold the divine intelligence of Earth, as Earth—are simply asking us to remember this truth so that we come into right relation with ourselves, so that we can remember ourselves whole and perfect in every moment, just as we are.
Light Lessons with Borage
We are eternal beings of light having a human experience. Nature, the flowers show me this over and over and over...and yet...it's hard to break old patterns of victimhood and blame, to not think I must be doing something wrong when I keep finding myself in pain, emotionally and physically.
The Sacred Alchemy of Shadow Work
Recognizing and embodying our light AND our shadow, our incredible joy AND our incredible pain, is what it means to embrace the experience of embodied life itself. And all of it is required to crack open and expand our energetic hearts.
Mugwort Dreams
Inspiration arises deep within, gestating in our dream state, growing slowly into conscious thoughts that eventually express through our words and conversations and finally we get to choose to tend them into form...or not!
Intertwining with the Divine
I have witnessed in my own life how fear, trauma, scarcity mentality, separation and deeply held beliefs around my ability to control my life’s experiences fractures me, closes down my heart’s connection to Source, to compassion and forgiveness of myself and others and to the truth of our Divine Nature—the truth that we are indeed all one and in this together.
Finding Peace (Amidst the Chaos)
When I stare out into the dark night sky lit with millions of stars, or look closely into a flower, I feel the same thing. And my heart knows, remembers, that everything that I see and experience with my external senses is simply a mirror of what is going on inside me.
The Way of the Rose
The more I fight and struggle and suffer, the more I create all that I am not. And the more I sink into the watery depths of despair, which I have done over and over as I have unpacked my personal suffering, the more I pull others down with me. Rose tells me over and over that what is in my highest good is indeed in the highest good for all.
Who is Pulling Your Strings?
On our metaphorical dance floor that is life, we are faced with many choices every moment about what steps to take next. Lady’s Slipper asks if our steps come from within, guided by our connection with our higher selves, or if are they choreographed by others?