Welcoming ourselves home in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | Professional service
Welcoming ourselves home
Locality: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Address: Northcote 3070 Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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25.01.2022 When we recognize that we’re caught in a shame spiral, it is an act of kindness to slow down and tend to our experience one layer at a time. Shame has a way of ...coloring our perception, tenderizing our emotional body, and shifting our nervous system out of safety. It is so natural to start thinking *about* our experience, one step removed from the life erupting within the belly, the heart, the throat. In these moments, we need ourselves more than ever, to turn toward the hurt, ashamed, and scared one who has appeared. Close your eyes, feel your feet on the floor, take a few deep breaths. Where do you feel the activation in your body? What sensations are carrying the shame throughout your muscles, belly, heart, and nervous system? As you embrace them with curiosity, compassion, and warmth, what are you believing about yourself and the world? As you meet the little one longing for safety and connection drop all the way in. You might notice an image, a voice, a knowing a memory from the past or vision from the future. With kindness, stay within your window of tolerance for only a few moments if required to maintain a felt sense of safety. There is no urgency on the path of love. Sensations in the belly safe. An impulse to collapse, run away, or hide safe. A core belief that I’m not okay safe. A memory of another time safe. The invitation is to bring companionship to these parts of our self that have felt so alone. To give to them now what wasn’t available earlier. Listening. Value. Mercy. Compassion. Understanding. Presence. Care. You have not failed. You are not broken and beyond redemption. These are the adaptive, yet out of date conclusions of a little one aching for safety, connection, and affection. The only way our little brains and nervous systems can make sense of this core wound of love is to internalize the blame and somehow see it as our fault. Oh I see, I’m broken and not worthy of any sort of consistent empathy and holding. Although tragic, there are evolutionary reasons why we must do this instead of perceiving our caregivers as incapable. But things are not as they appear. The pathways are ripe for revisioning.
22.01.2022 "The promise of a medicine woman If you come to me as a victim I will not support you. But I will have the courage to walk with you through the pain that you a...re suffering. I will put you in the fire, I will undress you, and I will sit you on the earth. I will bathe you with herbs, I will purge you, and you will vomit the rage and the darkness inside you. I'll bang your body with good herbs, and I'll put you to lay in the grass, face up to the sky. Then I will blow your crown to clean the old memories that make you repeat the same behavior. I will blow your forehead to scare away the thoughts that cloud your vision. I will blow your throat to release the knot that won't let you talk. I will blow your heart to scare fear, so that it goes far away where it cannot find you. I will blow your solar plexus to extinguish the fire of the hell you carry inside, and you will know peace. I will blow with fire your belly to burn the attachments, and the love that was not. I will blow away the lovers that left you, the children that never came. I will blow your heart to make you warm, to rekindle your desire to feel, create and start again. I will blow with force your vagina or your penis, to clean the sexual door to your soul. I will blow away the garbage that you collected trying to love what did not wanted to be loved. I will use the broom, and the sponge, and the rag, and safely clean all the bitterness inside you. I will blow your hands to destroy the ties that prevent you from creating. I will blow your feet to dust and erase the footprints memories, so you can never return to that bad place. I will turn your body, so your face will kiss the earth. I'll blow your spine from the root to the neck to increase your strength and help you walk upright. And I will let you rest. After this you will cry, and after crying you will sleep, And you will dream beautiful and meaningful dreams, and when you wake up I'll be waiting for you. I will smile at you, and you will smile back I will offer you food that you will eat with pleasure, tasting life, and I will thank you. Because what I’m offering today, was offered to me before when darkness lived within me. And after I was healed, I felt the darkness leaving, and I cried. Then we will walk together, and I will show you my garden, and my plants, and I will take you to the fire again. And will talk together in a single voice with the blessing of the earth. And we will shout to the forest the desires of your heart. And the fire will listen and whisper the echo, and we will create hope together. And the mountains will listen and whisper the echo, and we will create hope together. And the rivers will listen and whisper the echo, and we will create hope together. And the wind will listen and whisper the echo, and we will create hope together. And then we will bow before the fire, and we will call upon all the visible and invisible guardians. And you will say thank you to all of them. And you will say thank you to yourself. And you will say thank you to yourself. And you will say thank you to yourself." -Unknown repost Ciewantu CrowBear
10.01.2022 Leadership doesn't mean Power, it means Caring.
09.01.2022 Spoken word magic
06.01.2022 https://fb.watch/3wEDbajQS0/
03.01.2022 Spending time in the Kruger National park, thinking about the western world and survival of the fittest mentality. This idea that we need to push push push, ...work HARDER and never ever quit, can get people into trouble. We need to know when to quit. When to stop. And we need to be able to do it without feeling like a failure. We give our kids the opportunity to learn these skills because we recognize how difficult it can be for us adults who grew up in a competitive mind set. Of course, rather than survival of the fittest, its more accurately survival of the most adaptable. #totallyreimagined #reimagined #selfdirectedlearning #agile #krugernationalpark #lionpride #survivalofthefittest #quitthechaos #newbeginnings #bushveld #lettinggo
