‘It may be the first day of your life, the prime of youth or several decades in, when Medicine Woman calls you. Your name on her list. Her new initiate. She crept in whilst you were sleeping, when you over-exerted, when you kissed him, or ate that, or lived there or pushed too hard just one time too many. She crept in and curled up in your cells, your heart, waiting to meet you. Longing to know you. Longing for you to know her, at last.
And what feels like the end is in fact a beginning, of a new road, an unknown path of pain and healing. She will show you how to slow down, she will run her fingers roughly through your life and help you sort the busyness from what matters, she will show you how to find support… and who you really are, beyond your roles and expectations… and even more beyond the System the world has forced you into. She transports you into the timelessness of big pains and tiny joys. Initiates you into your strength. Into your love. Into your courage. Into a world beyond your control.
She has sent me an invitation. I see yours too, tucked in your bag, amongst all the receipts and bills, the pens and detritus of life. Take it out.
It is time.’
~ Lucy H. Pearce
Hello, sensitive soul,
One of the common fears that can come up when we contemplate a journey into our self-healing and more meaningful gifts is the idea that we will be judged as ‘selfish’ for creating time and space for ourselves (I was contemplating that this may be showing up for women this Easter holiday, so if that’s you, I feel your heart so deeply).
There’s often the deep fear of ‘what will people think of me if I choose this journey of healing myself and opening to my healing gifts?’ - alongside a simultaneous ‘knowing’ that you just can’t keep carrying on juggling ‘all the balls’ anymore, and that you’re being called to be more true to yourself and carve out time to honour your needs and desires (and who you really are).
