
08/25/2025
I had a really amazing therapy session on Friday and connecting with early childhood “trauma” experiences that I hadn’t visited in years. I actually had no idea the depth that it still affected me…I was so young I didn’t know myself any other way. BAM! It’s hard to see ourselves… that’d why having support to hold up the mirror is so important. 💛
I decided to go to the beach after my counselling sesh and sit with what we talked about, what I learned and what I experienced in our therapy session… I wanted to hold onto this one.
I walked down the beach, and found a lovely spot on a log down the way from a family playing in a beach hut. I was there for all of a minute when a little girl came walking down the beach towards me and started chatting. She was 5 and very chatty, digging in the sand beside me. I pointed to a piece of wood and told her it could work as a really good shovel and she told me. “That’s OK, I love the way sand feels in my hands, I probably won’t do this when I’m a grown-up”.
She talked about her friends and cousins, Christmas and her next birthday, we drew on the log with charcoal and she built the fairy village on the sand in the photo above. At one point through our conversation, her dad looked over to make sure everything was OK and I gave him thumbs up. I listened to this lovely free, spirited little girl for an hour. Since then I’ve pondered over, what I was meant to learn from this little girl, the timing certainly wasn’t by accident. ✨
At that age, I would never have spoken to someone I didn’t know, let alone walked up to them by myself. It was amazing to me to see through her what that would’ve been like.
I know one of the reasons I’m more sensitive and in tune with others and my environment is because of my childhood and I have turned that into a gift. It no longer comes from a place of survival, rather a healthy place that supports me when I need it and I now use this gift to support others to learn how to let go and do the same thing.
I am so grateful for my serendipitous, inspiring visit with this little girl. You better believe that I put my hands in the sand that day and I loved it too! 💖