The 5 Elements of Life

You are a unique spark of Divine creation. There is no one like you, never has been and never will be. While we all share the same core essence of love, bliss, and radiance, each of us manifests and expresses it in different ways, similar to how the same kind of flowers growing side by side in a garden will have subtle differences. One of them may have blossoms that open a tad bit more, or the color is a little more vibrant. Maybe one is bushier than the other. It’s the same for you and me.

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All rivers lead to the ocean

And so I told myself, “if something can’t be seen from my perspective but I KNOW it’s there, then there must be all kinds of things that are there but can’t see. So maybe just because I can’t see something doesn’t mean it’s not there.” Some big ideas I was grappling with at the ripe age of 7.

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Welcome home to our internal sanctuary

I’ve spent years now studying and practicing attachment theory, internal family systems, nervous system regulation, and more, all ways to better understand why I am the way that I am and how I could become who I wanted to become: a deeper, truer, more authentic expression of Me. Who am I beyond the trauma, the conditioning, the loneliness? Who am I at the marrow of my soul, as Elizabeth Lesser says?

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Inaction is also action

There are two questions that I’ve been mulling over recently:

  1. Does what I’m about to do contribute to the way I want to feel or the experience I want to have?

  2. Does what I’m about to do include caring for myself?

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