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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. 🕊️
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The other day, something broke my heart.
In moments like this, self-doubt rears her head and tells me that trusting your heart is rubbish; and that the only healing that happens when you trust your heart is simple, mere illusion.
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I have a question I ask life in times like this. And it’s this:
What healing is possible in this moment?
Recently, I’ve also been seeking to
Honour how I really feel about something when it happens, as oppose to rush to seeing the positive side of it.
And then when I locate it somatically, I simply rest in that feeling. Not seeking to fix it. Instead, I just get to know it, by accepting it by allowing it to be.
This is powerful medicine.
- The reel from @kitchen.princess.7 that a friend sent me this morning after I’d written this post -
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The healing that happens when you embark on your heart journey, or are navigating your own like me, won’t be what you expected. Nor probably what you’d like.
This recent event that happened though in the immediate moment I had a rail against life response that brought up a deep, deep pain, also brought me the following medicine:
🕊️ deep insight into the nature of intimacy possible between Tom & I. If we dare to choose it;
🕊️ Clarified the kind of mother I want to be & the healing I can offer my children by enjoying the ways a witch’s healing magic lives in my being because: I choose to use it;
🕊️ A turbo charged exodus of decades of suppressed emotions locked up since I was a little girl.
🕊️ A renewal of the knowing that though some of our hearts medicine may be devastating, if we truly following our hearts call, we’ll always be supported by The 4 P’s who show up to support the next evolution of our healing. I.e look around: there’ll either be a Person, Place, Platform or Practice appearing in your orbit, just when you need them/it & in such a way, you’ll be left in awe at the timing of it all.
- From @kitchen.princess.7 -
As a result of staying with the feelings, of not abandoning myself in favour of being a convenience to others, I woke the following morning feeling a softness in my body & a renewed sense of connection with my partner. And though it was a grey and stormy morning, I got out of bed, feeling my heart - raw & tender yes - slightly still in shock, but feeling something quite certain. But that I shall keep private in the chambers of my heart!
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Charles Eisenstein wrote something once, or perhaps it was a podcast, where he said (words to this effect and any fault due to my memory) that there’s too much trauma in our world, there’s been too much disconnection, too much unleashed for the healing of our world, of the collective not be messy.
I took his words to heart.
Parts of my own healing journey seem to make sense, only further along to appear as if they’ve been imploded.
And yet still, when my healing journey looks differently to how I had made sense of it? I discover a profound nugget of wisdom that transforms the whole struggle on its head. Underneath, shimmering: is life.
And so again, I’ll turn to my heart and say: I trust you.
And now: what do you ask of me next?
Sometimes, trusting our hearts mean facing realities that can pierce us in very deep ways. Some situations in our lives, that our hearts have gone towards, it’s the childlike parts of our hearts that are activated: where once again, hope, innocence and the wish that perhaps this time it will all work out are very much there.
And yet, though the medicine from what we’ve gone towards may seem and indeed be brutal, still there is our wise, eternal heart guiding us on. For somewhere in the devastation and piercing of illusion, is a deep medicine.
So, though there may be epic hurts along the way of embracing our heart journeys, betrayals that make us want to shut down & close up - remembering that:
“Hurt people hurt people”
we can reconnect to our hearts - actively and physically if you’re like me.
I.e my practice for connecting to my heart is that I rest my entire being in my heart. Not my heart chakra. My physical muscular beating heart. There, is my channel to the healing nature of the information and guidance that wants to come through.
Feeling the heart break. Allowing the pain. Releasing the soul hurt: these are all essential parts of being able to stay connected to our hearts. To find the medicine of the moment. To instead of closing down and numbing out to sense portals where deep inner peace can be tapped into & an expansive assured knowing in our soul. Where we feel safe. Where we reclaim, being human.
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Below is a post a very dear friend tagged me on which I saw this morning after writing this.
I share it now - to serve as a totem of confidence making: when we embrace the waves of healing, no matter how intense they may be, there is magic afoot that on the other side, will be there to support you. Below, could not speak more profoundly to the experience I had been on before reading it.
And so ready for more stage directions from the bespoke navigational system that's the healing wisdom of our hearts.
Which is to say, if we’re really committed to the business of healing, the choice we have is always, so much more.
Keep trusting.
Laura xxx
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“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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