12/10/2025
Consumption: What We Take In and What Takes Us Over
Blog Post
Week Commencing 13/10/25
Joanne Gillibrand
For those who joined me at the recent Self-Love Workshop, you’ll recognise many of the ideas woven through this week’s blog. We’re exploring the emergence of consciousness and consumption and how our growing self-awareness influences the way we engage with the world around us. As we deepen our understanding of ourselves, we begin to see how every choice, from the thoughts we entertain to the products we purchase, reflects our evolving state of consciousness.
In this age of constant noise, we are all consuming words, images, opinions, emotions. Every moment, we draw in fragments of the world around us: information, energy, conflict, beauty, fear. But few of us pause to ask, what is consuming us in return?
There is a quiet exchange happening beneath the surface of our days. As we absorb the outer world, we are also being shaped by it, molded by unseen currents of thought, fear, and desire. The more we consume without discernment, the more we become consumed by distraction, division, and disconnection.
Discernment, then, becomes a sacred act. To ask what nourishes me and what drains me is to reclaim our spiritual sovereignty. It is to remember that not everything offered to us is meant to be taken in.
In times of instability and conflict, grounding becomes both a spiritual and practical necessity. The earth beneath our feet does not ask for sides it only asks that we listen. When we press our palms to the soil, when we breathe with the trees, when we allow silence to be our teacher, we begin to feel a profound connective consciousness the awareness that we belong to something vast, ancient, and whole.
Peace is not an abstract concept; it begins as a felt experience. When we accept peace within our lives even amid chaos, we become transmitters of peace to the planet. The micro always mirrors the macro. Healing personal conflict ripples outward as planetary healing.
And perhaps the simplest, yet most transformative path to this peace, is the one paved with humility. Saying “I’m sorry.” Accepting forgiveness. Recognizing that forgiveness is never a one way act it is a dance of release, a returning to balance.
To be humble is not to be small; it is to stand clear and open before life. It is to see the divine in another and in ourselves, and to allow that recognition to dissolve the barriers between us.
When we consume consciously … food, media, energy, emotion …and when we let go of the need to be right, to win, to dominate, we create space for something extraordinary to enter: peace, presence, and the quiet knowing that we are already home.
Blessings to you all as we enter this new week.
I hope you are both the peace that you seek and the love that you feel in every moment that asks you to act with a discerning consciousness in the pathway of our collective future.
Love Always
Jo ###x
