A New Time

Many blurred golden lights

I’ll be honest here. I didn’t grow up in a time where the world of parents and teachers would even mention the topics of identity, voice, personal sovereignty and potential. It’s been a decades long journey of self-discovery to come into my own sense of self.

We develop our selfhood and self care from the early messages and experiences with our caregivers, our parents. An anxious parent teaches anxiety as a response to daily life. An angry parent teaches anger as a coping or response to daily life. A self-regulated and compassionate parent teaches regulation and compassion.

Current generations are so blessed to have the knowledge and language to develop and maintain health. We now can have awareness of early imprints, both positive and challenging, and opportunities to move towards a more vibrant and healthy selfhood. There are many opportunities to access healing: yoga, somatic exercises, energy healing, therapy, organic foods, coaching, access to information, naturopathic medicine, massage, dance, arts, movement, books that help us to see ourselves and grow…the list grows.

The work we do now for ourselves, brings healing to generations of hardship or dysfunction that have carried on, and lays a new foundation of sovereignty, holiness, consciousness, and compassion.

What is now accessible cannot be passively integrated. Healing is an active awareness and journey. It means we search: we ask ourselves questions, we check in with our bodies and feelings, we are curious about who we are and how we express our full selves in our day.

What do I want more of (or less of) in my life?

Who do I admire, and why?

Am I living my highest version of myself?

Am I living in-the-moment, or is my life always somewhere else (in the past or future)?

Marcel Proust, an early 20th-century French writer, said, “We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.”

Here’s to those who are curious and brave! I bow to you, and the world says, “Thank you, well done.”