This is a new newsletter celebrating the healing wisdom of our hearts.
Here, we focus on all the ways us mothers can contribute to healing - both personally & collectively. And thus, how we mirror this to our kids. 🕊️
Posts comes out 1 - 2 times a week.
Subscription will always be free - AND - I’m exploring ways to offer benefits to those who do subscribe as a way of acknowledgment and a deep thank you for showing your trust in this vision. 🐣 In other words: more coming soon.
As it is, I write this newsletter from my grand-mother’s desk that I used to sit at as a little girl playing grown up. As I spend a week with my family in a place overflowing with a rich sense of roots, belonging and magic - a home we’ve not been in for a decade.
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Here in the western world, so many of us are obsessed with being told what to do.
We feverishly buy How To Books, sign up to online courses, scouring both for bullet pointed formulas for how to live a life called ours.
All the while, life spirals away, emanating out of a source called our hearts. And yet, so convincing is our disconnection that we diminish this - for surely, life is more complicated. Requires more of us, then simply holding the intention to return to our hearts and then commit to doing so as a daily practice…
But I’ve decided to go rogue. And though on the outer, it may look as though I’m listening, I’ll let you know a secret: I’m a woman who wears hearing aids, and some days I do wonder: is my deafness a brilliant protection that my system designed, as protection against all those people so keen to tell me what I need to do in order to have a life called lived?
Because also, being deaf, struggling to hear - there’s a gift, because the outer world has so often not been an option - the only way I had to go was inwards. And there: I found my heart.
- My kids: Eve & Jack playing on the lawn filled with so many happy memories -
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Recently, as I seek to refine my relationship to the wisdom in my heart, I’m leaning away from relying on others to guide me, and instead, reorienting towards, and then rehoming into the vast expanse that is my heart.
Here, I’ve re-discovered contours, shapes, ravines, and also, deeply uncomfortable fascia like entrenched terrain, that oh my goodness feels sticky and icky to navigate. And yet, rest in there: simply rest, and slowly, way too slowly to be satisfying to anyone wanting a quick fix, I’m also experiencing something that feels like I finally understand what healing is.
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In my early 20’s living in London, I drove a Vespa. People would ask me: shall I get one? And I’d always avoid directly recommending them.
For whilst I loved my Vespa’s. Adored the freedom. The speed. It was London and I never wanted to be the one recommending something that could be dangerous. How could I be sure that what was cool for me, would be a good thing for another?
In the same way, how can I - a mother, a writer, a person called Laura - say to you: dear one, trust your heart. For your heart want healing for you - personally and collectively. And even declare, that of this: I know to be true!
And though, I feel cautious about this message and am constantly interrogating it - what relevance does it have to a child in Palestine for example? My sense is, that there is, at the very least, an element of truth here. And though it may not be the whole truth, I am increasingly confident about declaring that this healing of our collective trust in the wisdom in our hearts has a crucial part to play in the evolution of how we show up as humans on planet earth...
- the view from one of the early morning walks I’ve been taking with the dogs -
And so, I say to you what I’d say to every friend who I sense is open to listening, what I say to both of my children, and what I seek to honour myself: keep trusting yourselves… So too, trust the beauty in your heart: it has immense healing it wants to bring you. Personally & collectively. We live in a universe of inestimable size. You’re a sacred being. Enjoy the dance called healing.
For at some point in “this human experience,” we must be willing to step away from the edge of the swimming pool, and instead to explore the edge of our own lives.
After all, fear & anger are much less interesting stories then the joy & freedom that comes from trusting the (wildly unconventional!) healing wisdom in our hearts. For though some of that healing will be challenging to navigate, other parts, will feel like coming home.
PS: What others say about the newsletter:
“Laura amazes me with all she is doing to heal and bring people along on her journey.” Dee K.
"Reading Laura’s newsletter makes me marvel at her journey, exploration of self and life. Her zest for living and searching. For me, she is a natural wonder!” Tracy H.
“I want to tattoo these anecdotes all over me!! All the blocks are familiar and I know them only too well but the anecdotes are fresh and new and heart led and I LOVE them. I will be practicing them all. So thank you sister.” Chessy T-W.
“Simply beautiful!” Julia M.
“Your newsletter cracked me wide open… so deeply mirrors the threads in my life that are pulling me this way and that, and is such a contagious beacon of light to that part of me that knows…” Eliza P.
“Laura your words are so powerful, every time I read them, somehow, each time, they are right for the phase I am going through. I love your writing, and I love you helping us feel that indeed we are not alone with our experiences!” Natasha D.
“Thank you so much for writing your newsletter…I wanted to try and convey how much I relate to what you’re writing about in the newsletters.” Alex MH.
“A wonderful accompaniment to my morning…” Skye G.
“Laura's willingness in her life to keep an open heart has been a continual thread of connection, and I love how there are some people who mysteriously circle in and out of your awareness with interesting junctures where your direction is shaped by theirs; Laura has inspired me to be more full in the expression of my heart, in ways she probably doesn’t even know! Whenever we share our writing or our song, our dance or art, whenever we honour the creative fire that is, always burning within, it will leave a mark for people to follow; for their hearts in turn to recognise.” Charlotte H.
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