Get Vulnerable

Pour yourself into your own vulnerability. Your wounds don't define you. They may mark or contour you but actively lean into that fragility. Nothing grows when we harden but only when we move into our softness. In nature, any expanse of a tree branch, a snail shell or crustacean happens from softening, it comes from surrendering - it comes from bending and pulling our defences down. Invite wisdom, invite guidance, invite suggestions, welcome the help even though it may feel like judgement or criticism.

Once you have exhausted all options, there is always another way of looking at things and always another path. At times, it is only from exhausting all options that we can choose the one option we have left in our back pocket - however uncertain or unfathomable it may appear. It may just be the very thing we are intended for and intentionally hoping for.

Life is full of doubts and divisions. Anything that feels rushed or urgent is likely to be coming from a place of anxiety and fear. Love is a complex and dynamic being. It can feel comforting, warm and uplifting - at other times it can feel dense, destructive, smothering and overbearing. We must be careful not to place expectations on one another.

There is always the blank page, the place we can return to. Just like learning a new language or composing a new song, we find the words, we find the intention, we find the stomach to bear life, to invite life, to include its cycles, its eclipses into our world. to bear witness to our deviations, our need to escape and fly is much to do with growth but also to share our skills, share our ingredients and intuitions with others.