February 16th, 2022

​MEDICINE FOR A HEAVY HEART. Hi Wisdom Seekers!

Sometimes it feels so heavy.  Life just piles on and we watch people we love succumb to the flows of their own suffering.  Sometimes they will point their ire or fear at us, and it can fill us with helplessness, or cause us to fight back in many different ways.  Sometimes it just gets us.  And sometimes we might be the ones throwing our heavy hearts at others.  

How do we find a measure of release in the midst of all this so we can speak truth with kindness, assertiveness and hold a container of love and knowing. How do we them, or our own selves, know that there is still a choice, even a sliver of choice, to come out of this darkness.    

When I have a heavy heart, I come to my ancient oak tree that lives in a glen along a trail, shaded and protected by a giant rock wall. She is my medicine, her survival over hundreds of years, how she has created such sacred space in her beingness. This is a place for standing strong and gentle in the shadowland. She inspires me; I hope to inspire you.  It’s okay to have a heavy heart.