We are not a culture that likes to look at our past; yet, our past can offer pathways to healing and ultimately the clarity and answers we are often looking for in our fast paced / future focused obsessions.

In a world that is so often imposing its ideas on who we are “supposed” to be and what we are “supposed” to be doing, it is a radical act to not only discover who you really are but to then share that with the world (or at least your communities).

We as humans crave certainty and we fear the unknown. This is natural because uncertainty threatens our perception of our own safety which is a core and fundamental need (however we tend to look for safety in all the wrong places). We don’t like the liminal, the in between, the gray and so we desperately try to cling to things that we know or think we know, even if those things are clearly dying and no longer support the vision that is trying to be birthed……even if those old things are parts of of ourselves - our beliefs, our patterns, our identity.

So many of us, especially Highly Sensitive People (I’ll be speaking more about this in future newsletters), did not get what we needed in our younger years. Most of our parents did the best that they could but we all have wounds of abandonment, not feeling seen or heard, not feeling safe and if you are highly sensitive you most likely have a very dysregulated nervous system.