Essential Bodywork

I’m doing some writing this morning…

For the love of all things life, love, and sacred, can we stop pathologizing adaptations? What would happen if we started honoring and celebrating the intelligence of our adaptations? (Actually, I have answers to that)

I have been a human my whole life. I have all the credentials to back it up. I have been humaning, adapting, therapying, therapisting, witnessing.

I have gone to all the crevices, folds, black holes, and in between. And I’ve been on the journey of no problems to solve.

If you point out that I have a block, here are some of the responses I might be feeling:
“Duh.”
“I know, isn’t she wise?”
“I don’t see a problem here.”
“Thank you for witnessing. And thank you for stopping by.”

This being developed a banana peel as an adaptation. How do you feel towards this banana peel? I bet there’s a part of you that wants to move the banana peel. But, you probably can’t see the walnut that the banana peel is protecting.

So what if we just love the banana peel? We stay in awe of the fact that this banana peel showed up on a metal sphere. How in the world did that happen?! And we just continue to be with it, witness, and not ask it to go away. And eventually the banana peel falls away. The system starts to feel it can be in all of it’s metalness and spaciousness. The banana peel falls away, the walnut disappears. In all the spaciousness, the different materials are absorbed into beingness.

I am for sure coming out with a book of new verbs.

When you facilitate magic and have to celebrate in the forest! ✨✨✨

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I am releasing the secret.

One morning on my walk in East Sussex I met a man named Richard. If I had to guess, Richard was in his 70s. He had lost his wife about six years ago. He was eager to chat with me and curious about my life. He also kept asking about my parents. And after about the 4th time I asked him how old he thought I was, to be referring to my parents so much. I said "Because you know, I'm 40". He about fell over. He thought I was 25. Oh Richard, so sweet.

Realizing I had a few more years under my belt, he asked me what I had been most surprised by in my years working with clients. Like what was the craziest or most outrageous thing I had come across. I was able to answer quickly that I am really never surprised.

Partially because I am an old soul and partially because of the inner work I have done. The more I sit with my pain, my shadow, my doubt, my fear, judgement releases. When I love my fragments back into wholeness, it releases my self judgement. This is how I can show up in a way that feels safe to people. This is why my clients tell me I am so safe. This is why they don't feel judged by me. When you can be with whatever comes up, without judgment, you can heal. You can access the best most creative most loving aspects of yourself.

This is how we become safe for each other. By loving our whole selves. I am so thankful for the few people in my life that have the courage to be with it all. To love their whole selves so that they may show up in this way for the people in their lives. For themselves, for their clients, their communities, their friends, their families.

This is one very important way we change the world.

What are we building? What are we loving into existence?