Serpents shed their skin and so are also a sign of metamorphosis. If we can use our skills of witnessing/detachment, this time period is actually very potent for transformation of how we give and receive love. We can go through a kind of rebirth within our relationships right now.
Intimacy is a Living Experience
Yet if you hold a deeper intention for yourself in relationship, if you want to create something that is real, alive, and honest with a partner, looking at your expectations and how you use them to hold yourself apart is so important.
If You Have to Grasp it, it Was Never Yours
Once upon a time, I was trying so hard to make a relationship work. It was a long distance thing and there was so much chemistry and connection, yet when we were apart it would fizzle out. Talking on the phone started to feel strained, and I felt myself trying too hard to keep the connection going. That’s when my healer at the time said to me, “If you have to grasp it, it was never yours…”
Rebuilding Your Heart
There’s no doubt about it. Breakups are deeply unsettling, evoking feelings of rawness, grief, discomfort, even existential terror. All of us long for a feeling of protection in life. The old relationship energy we were in, even if it was unhappy or unhealthy, was familiar! We knew how to rest in it and it gave […]
The Grace of Falling
When we have a sense of where we want to go in relationship, health, work, etc, these deep inner goals become the long view of our life. They are the important things that we are making steps towards. When we hold them in our hearts & minds, these things tend to manifest. Sometimes they come […]
Toxic People Happen
It’s not your fault that a difficult, abusive person came into your life. Abusive people happen. It’s unfortunate, but they do. Why abusive people came to be and what makes them behave so badly is a topic for another blog! Compassion for them is for another day as well. Today, my interest is in helping […]