Daily Affirmations + Introspections

A valuable tool on the healing path is inviting your inner child, your inner being, to come out and enjoy experiences and safety of today.

Especially if you have a traumatic childhood or have been left, feeling unsafe, inviting that small part of yourself to come forward and enjoy the life that you have created can be a very healing way to calm some of those energies within that still linger from childhood.

This is something that I do when I do something fun. When I went to Disneyland about five years ago, I had never been. I invited my inner child out the whole time to enjoy an experience that I dreamed about as a child. It wasn’t the same as if I would have gone as a kid, however, I was able to allow that child like joy in my heart to be filled. I also do this…

One of my favorite aspects of shadow Work is being able to transform my perspective on those parts about myself that I’ve always seen as “ bad”. Because in reality I am just human. And all humans have feelings of jealousy of fear, of an adequacy of resentment. This is just a part of our human experience.

I want to share with you a quote out of a book called when things fall apart by Pema Chödrön.

“ we are trying to learn not to split ourselves between our “good side” and our “ bad side”, between our “ pure side” and our “ impure side”. The elemental struggle is with our feelings of being wrong, with our guilt and shame at what we are. That’s what we have to be friend. The point is that we can dissolve the sense of dualism between us and them, between this, and…

I usually post these a lot earlier in the day, however, today was so beautiful. I have been out in my yard since about 930 this morning.

Gardening has always been a source of Zen for me and I like to use it as my meditation and grounding time when I’m feeling a little disconnected from myself. I’ve mentioned in a couple posts on my socials that I’ve been reading a book that has been a little triggering and brings up some traumas from my childhood. So spending the whole day gardening was a good way for me to reenter myself since I’ve been feeling a little insecure.

Whenever emotions or memories from my childhood come up, they are usually coupled with feelings of shame. Those feelings of shame when I water them often sprout feelings of insecurity and unworthiness. These have been very alive in me the past week…

Happy Spring to you all. Today marks the Spring Equinox, when day and night are equal in length, also marking the beginning of Spring. We also just had a new moon on Wednesday, making this a beautiful time to invite your goals, dreams, and aspirations to the surface.

I hope you find a moment to breathe in the Spring air, a moment to close your eyes and allow the breeze to comfort your skin. I hope you find a moment to be here, in this moment and enjoy the life you are creating for yourself.

✨🖤🫶🏼