As we move towards Easter, I invite you to take a few moments to watch the video above. It offers a glimpse into a practice I’m stepping into these next weeks—I’d love for you to consider joining me!
The health & financial hardships in my life as of late have taught me that there can be unique power in honestly saying the thing—blurting it out! Bessel A. van der Kolk describes it this way…
“The critical issue is allowing yourself to know what you know. That takes an enormous amount of courage.”
I don’t know about you, but I live in a world where to “log a complaint” is to be a complainer — a world where the context & community all around me (however well-intentioned!) rarely invite deep knowing + truth-telling.
In fact, the incentives I encounter run in the other direction: pretend, paper over, polish up.
Make no mistake: I’m not advocating for a world of “glass half-empty” pessimists. Nor do I want to relinquish the gift of creative agency—and wide-ranging options that inevitably surface when we host ourselves with curiosity & playful imagination.
But we can’t get positioned to do that deep curious & creative work, if we haven’t first located ourselves where we are—an honest center of seeing and knowing. We never get to begin where we wish we were…
Powerful gifts open up to us when we get brave enough to name the things. For me, it’s been nothing less than a journey into the heart of love—even here, even now, even in this.
Over the next six weeks, I’ll be sharing bits of an essay I wrote—specifically with you in mind. The narrative is a peek over my shoulder, but it’s not about me. It’s an invitation—for you.
What’s the thing you need to know?
What’s the thing you need to name?
Take courage, dear one! The mystery, the beauty and — yes, the love — show up so often when & where we least expect.
PS Are you IN? Stepping into this practice these next weeks?! Comment or like this post, so I have a sense of who’s joining me on this journey.
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Sure! Count me in.
I’m game to play. :)