Soul Musings

  This morning when I woke, I was feeling into the day and how the year has gone, as we are in the final month of 2020. I often start my day by creating an image to post to share in support of my clients and others who are on a path of transformation and value soul work. I wanted to contrast what the feeling of 2020 was like for me with what I imagine 2021 will be like.   I created the image above with the cocoon representing 2020 and the “butterfly”(so I thought!)  representing 2021. I’ve been sharing with others all year long that this year was a time to cocoon and to do our inner work to transform our lives and our world.  This year and all that was going on inspired me to create an online experience I called, “Shelter in Soul” in which we explore the phases of transformation associated with our symbol of transformation, the butterfly! I loved the way the image I created turned out and posted it to my Instagram account. Then I showed my husband the image that I really felt goo

A week or so before the COVID-19 virus was declared a “pandemic”, I began to weep nightly.  This weeping arrived organically and with purpose.  It continues to support me in “wringing my heart out” from all I collect in my awareness and from all I'm feeling into happening in our world. I welcomed this nightly ritual like a good friend showing up to companion me through a hard time.  It alerted me to the fact that I was in a grief response.  This prompted my curiosity to notice other signs of grief.  My willingness to be more present to my experience brought all of those familiar feelings and physical experiences connected to loss forward. There was extreme fatigue, regret, deep sorrow, brain fog, lack of joy and fear to name a few! (Perhaps you are experiencing some grief responses, too?) A big part of the regret that was heavy on my heart was that I had not completely fulfilled one of my soul calls. While I have had the honor of supporting others through the