14/11/2024
🍃 Seasonal surrender 🍃
I used to take up arms against the seasons in my life.
🍃 In my 20s I was determined to be ‘like’ the images fed to us by doing all the things - hair dresser every 6 weeks, chemical skincare, punishing my body with restricted food and strict exercise regimes.
🌸 Now I send this beautiful Spring maiden all my love, and honour her in my life by embracing fun and joy and creativity whenever I can!
🍃 In my 30s, I grew confident…but not with aging. At the first sign of a silver hair, I would pluck them with tweezers, removing every last one. I couldn’t imagine posting a photo of myself without makeup on! I doubted the woman in front of me, and while I loved her capacity to Mother her children. I wasn’t as kind or loving to myself! 🙄
🌸 Now I mother myself with compassion and priority, taking rest when I need, not running dry, and embracing the fullness of life. Understanding this is the season for it! Motherhood is full bloom in all the ways!
🍃 As my 40s began, I felt a deep deep shift. An Ancestral calling, a spiritual softening and opening. This came with acceptance of self, and a commitment to ‘do the work’ to return home to my soul’s calling. The outside construct of the world started to fall away. I returned to the land, said no to all that didn’t resonate, and loved the woman I found in this space.
🌸 Now I see the construct that lives inside all of us - that as women we are inherently ‘lacking’. I don’t need to judge it anymore, but I know when I listen to the seasons of my womb, the earth and my life - I can anchor myself so that the construct doesn’t make me wobble.
🌸 Honouring the seasons of my womb, celebrating the seasonal changes in the earth with ritual and love, and deep listening to my intuitive knowing are so empowering! I wobble sometimes, but the earth is always there to remind me to love my seasons, love growing wiser, love my body, and keep surrendering to the seasons of life 🌀
and the brings women home to their wild self. I am forever grateful that this work ripples out into the world 🌞