Today is the Autumn Equinox here in the Southern hemisphere, and it is a time where we're starting to head towards winter. We are heading into the more contractive stage of the year, where we go within. It's a great time for working out what we need to release and let go of, so that we can prepare our soil, break down what we no longer need, and mulch it all up so that we're ready to plant our seeds in spring.
Read MoreI'm going to tell you a bit of a story today about how I use Tinder as a personal development tool. Now this isn't something I've ever heard from anybody else, but it really encompasses the journey that I took to go from an abusive, toxic and un-nourishing relationship into a loving, respectful and reciprocal one.
Read MoreBoundaries are often fear-based. They are to keep things out, to protect us, to have that wall between us and others. I find it a little bit like that protective mentality, where we want to keep the bad stuff out, rather than resilience, which comes from the idea that we can protect ourselves against anything that comes along.
Standards are our expectations of our own behavior. How are we going to behave in different situations.
Read MoreSo the energy today has been really strange. It's International Women's Day, which has been an interesting thing for me, and I'll talk about that in a little bit, and it's also the Virgo full moon.
So, let me start with International Women's Day.
Read MoreThere are so many more expressive words out there. And if we look at happiness as our end goal, our happiness that we're often talking about, especially when we have not done much personal and spiritual development before, the happiness is often tied to external circumstances. It is tied to relationships. It is tied to work. It is tied to our feelings of abundance, and our cashflow, and our financial situation, and our relationship with our family. It's tied to all of these different external factors.
Read MoreToday I want to dive into dark nights of the soul, what they are, and what they're not, because I think there's a lot of misinformation out about them.
I think that a lot of people assume that dark nights of the soul are just hard times. It's when things are tumultuous, and challenging, and we need to go within to find some resources and tools to use.
Read MoreToday's topic is about the relationship between empaths and narcissists. Now there is so much information out there about these types of relationships, but what really helped me in my understanding was looking at the way that the narcissist comes about energetically. It's a really fascinating thing.
Read MoreIt is one year since the birth of my book - Divine. Messy. Human. A Spiritual Guide to Prioritising Internal Truth over External Influence. A few lessons:
1. You don't get support from the places you expect it, but you do receive unexpected support
2. Once your work is out in the world, you have no control over how it is received/interpreted
3. You learn what community is to you and what about that you value
4. Nothing prepares you for having that piece of your soul out in the world
Read MoreNew podcast - Divine. Messy. Human. Episode 1 - Why Divine. Messy. Human?
I have been on this journey for over a decade now of delving into the mind body spirit connection, of learning new things, unlearning old things, repatterning my nervous system responses, and delving deep into my soul to find out who I am and what I love.
What I do know is the more that I've learned on this journey, the less I know, and the more I want to know.
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