Soma Yada Coaching Services (Sue Pearson, owner, operator)

03/24/2026

Discovering that boundaries are needed is the beginning of a very valuable stage of development. What folks don't often know is that when you start setting boundaries with those you love and care about (or work with or work for) you will most likely receive some significant pushback. Your lack of boundaries most likely served others and they are not pleased that you are taking better care of yourself by limiting the caring for others. You decide to not take work calls on the weekend, you tell folks you dont' want to talk about certain topics or don't have energy to provide emotional support like you once did. Perhaps you are prioritizing your own care and that means doing less for others as a result.
Setting boundaries and enforcing them can feel very uncomfortable at first. You can feel guilty, undeserving, or still unsure if it is okay to say no to unpaid overtime or listening to a friend in distress late at nnight. It takes time and commitment to hold your own, repeat your boundaries like a broken record and know that people will violate them, complain about them or downright get hostile that you are changing their access to your unpaid labour, unending emotional support etc. Knowing that supporting yourself as you move through discomfort in the new way of being is an important part of the process, and holding on to enforcing the boundary are criticial for success. It will get better if you stand firm in discomfort and hold firm to your meeting your needs.... you will learn the new way and it will one day feel like the most natural thing ever.
Likewise we may find over time we need to revisit boundaries and revise them to serve our evolving needs. Take comfort in knowing pushback is normal, discomfort is normal and both will pass in time and with practice.

08/17/2025

Boundary setting secures self care and honors our authentic self by preserving our energy for our truest needs

Art | Pekka Halonen

07/21/2025

True!

02/16/2025

Small gestures and practices which lean towards a new way of being are incredibly powerful. Practice often, with small edgey steps towards the call of becoming and one day, most often without realizing it, you will embody it fully, easily and so you will be the change you once thought was out of reach.

06/19/2024

In appreciation of the "Being" part of Human Being...
Be sure you balance being and doing... do be do be do! Let the music of harmony guide your life rhythms.

05/14/2024

Rest and rejuvenation are necessary for we , like the seasons, do best when we live in step with cycles of in/activity. Capitalism wants us to be forever working and producing while it thieves us of rest to boost its own profits.

✨Via ✨

03/24/2024

Good morning Poetry lovers ❤️❤️
(Pinterest)

03/05/2024

So true!

02/20/2024

I owe myself an apology
For all of the times
I tore myself apart.
When I neglected my own needs
Lowered my standards
Berated myself
And put myself down.

For the self-sabotage
I continually inflicted upon myself
And the times when I apologised
For being who I was
And expressing myself authentically.

And I owe myself
The permission to start anew.

To forgive myself
For the battles I fought
That weren’t mine to fight
For all of the love
That I failed to give myself
And for the times when I failed to realise
That rather than being broken
I was worthy of value, respect
And beautiful, brilliant things in life

And that how I treated myself
Dictated how others would view me
And in turn, behave towards me

So by showering myself
With love, kindness, forgiveness and respect
In turn, I could pave the way
For others to do the same.

Words by Tahlia Hunter

Artwork by Katarína Vavrová Artist

02/18/2024

Baba Yaga, folkloric witch of Eastern European tales, has long captured my imagination ever since Clarissa Pinkola Estes detailed her and the story of Vasalisa. A cannabilist and fearsome witch who lives in the forest in a ramshackle hut built on chicken legs, she represents female wisdom and power often misunderstood. Her iron teeth show she can nourish or destroy. Her chicken-legged hut - mobility and oddity. She stirs creation and death in her mortar and pestle.

Then I came across the wonderful book, “Ask Baba Yaga” as channeled by Taisia Kitaiskaia, and immediately knew I had to create her (and if you don’t have this book - you need it. Just trust me).

Like most of the fearsome witches of dark mythos, Baba Yaga is at the surface a cautionary tale, and presents as a hideous crone that lives deep in the forest. Vasalisa is the alternate half of Estes’ tale, and is sent into the forest by her cruel stepmother to visit her. Baba Yaga does not tolerate fools and gives Vasalisa several impossible tasks, but Vasalisa is somehow able to accomplish every one. At the end Baba judges her to be pure of heart and gives Vasalisa a skull lantern to find her way home again. Baba Yaga teaches us to embrace intuitive knowledge and natural cycles shunned by society. She tests us in our deepest fears but guides worthy seekers who brave the dark woods. As Estés wrote, Baba Yaga "adjudicates our failures of introspection." She forces self-reflection to spur growth.

In this portrait, Baba is hard to look at - she represents the mirrored aspect of us as we age. Will we gaze fiercely or turn away fearfully? She stands amid a sulfuric haze representing the veil of her power, in front of her famously strange house, gazing intently at the viewer. She sees through facades into our shadow, but knows too our resilience. Having Baba on my altar reminds me in my aging body to be fully authentic - celebrate my quirks, trust my instincts, never fear deviation from the norm. ANd teaches me a thing or two about coming into my own power as a crone.

While the world labels powerful women like Baba Yaga as "witches," she represents our ability to direct our lives and determine our own fates. When I channel her unapologetic authority, I feel emboldened in my spiritual feminist practice. Darkness and light, Baba Yaga teaches me to embrace all within.

“Baba Yaga”
Mixed Media
2023

8X10 Signed and Matted Gallery Print: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1531290592/baba-yaga-8x10-matted-and-signed-gallery

4X6 Matted Altar Art Print: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1545479261/baba-yaga-4x6-matted-altar-art-print