CobbleWorks: Little Stories of Love + Hope

03/02/2023

Yeah. It would.
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But it's hard to look within and love everything we see and feel, right? It is for me. I got some health stuff going on that makes me wanna enter worry like I'm breezing into Costco. Oh look! Here's a 10 pound box of "This probably won't work out"! Yeah, I'll take that. And what about this multi-pack of "Worst case scenarios?" Yeah, I'll load those in my cart too.
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Ugh, being human is so freaking hard...sometimes...all the time. How are we supposed to "listen with love" and befriend ourselves when we can hardly catch ourselves coming and going (not just in our everyday, but in our minds as well)?
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Yeah, a daily ritual of self-reflection helps. But in the moment, here's what I've been doing:
I pause for a moment, put my hand on my heart, take a slow breath and say, "Hello, friend" to myself. And then I take another breath, connect to my own vision of the Sacred and say, "Hello, friend". And then I keep breathing.
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Sometimes my soul speaks. Sometimes the Sacred speaks. I listen to both when they do. Sometimes we just kind of sigh at each other. Either way, I'm a bit calmer, my trust has grown a little, my courage has been edified some, and I'm judging myself less. It helps me not feel like a stranger to myself.
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Try it. See how you like this. And if you have an in-the-moment technique for connecting to your deep-down self when things feel strange, chaotic, and confusing, I'd love to hear about it! We can't have too many loving ideas right now!
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02/28/2023

I love the two energy flows of reflection. We look back and listen to where we've been and what we've learned. This retrospective gaze, done with Love, lets our experiences become wisdom.
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And then there's mutual seeing, where the Sacred Universe shows us something wholly new, something that might have been hidden, or something unknown to us before.
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What I mean is that the universe can act as a gorgeous mirror. Our interest and wonder gets piqued by something we see in the world and it invites us to ask: Is this a quality that's also alive in me? Is this something that wants my attention, curiosity, or engagement?
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I think this is so rad, so freaking amazing and so abundant with connective tissue. In our reflection, we see the past and see what we've learned through our own gaze and then we get a peek into our own mystery and our personal invitations to do new things through the mirroring of the Sacred Universe.
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Big Wow. So cool.
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Here's what I'm curious about in this space: in your own reflection practice, are you looking at the world and it's showing you something about yourself or inviting you somewhere new? I'd love to hear about it and celebrate with you :D

02/24/2023

12/02/2022

Today’s “I Wonder” card…
I Wonder what it would feel like to offer yourself self-love and not argue with your inner critic, old voice, or tired pattern that gives you conditions on whether you deserve this love or not.
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I wonder.
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11/28/2022

We are in week 1 of our non-traditional, nature-focused Advent course where we’re traveling with Bear.
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Bear invites us to notice how we respond to changes that we absolutely know are approaching, but might also find intimidating.
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Bear asks us how we can prepare and then turn inward, trusting and surrendering to our deepest needs within.
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This turning in can feel like we’re turning away or giving up, but we’re not. We’re preparing, we’re doing, and then we’re letting go of what we cannot control.
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I share, in the course a visit I received from Mary who helped me see one of my greatest needs right now: allowing myself to be held when I feel like I should tough everything out myself.
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This course blends the Christmas story with 4 animal guides as we look at what it means to experience transformation. If you’re longing for a new approach to Advent and wanting to connect to your own nature as well as Spirit and the natural world, join us!
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It’s self-directed with a big, illustrated journal and lots of audio prompts and stories. Link in my bio has details 😀

11/23/2022

The path is braided with animal guides, the solstice, and the Christmas story in Soul Journeys: A Transformative Advent.
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This is a season of kin-dom, which celebrates our belonging in the family of all things and the sacred presence that speaks through and connects all things and beings. Advent is not a path we walk alone.
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In week 1, Bear shares insight into what it means to transform through hibernation (how do you trust your deepest need and surrender to it?).
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I’m honored to be offering this self-guided course again this year with expanded material.
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If you’re looking to celebrate the season with a connection to nature and to your own nature, check out the link in my bio to learn more.

11/19/2022

Kitchen Towels are here again! This time, I'm going with an elemental theme with Air as the first of four.
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Here's Love + Hope riding a (fairly derpy owl) and taking a wider perspective together, on life. I put some of my thoughts about the imagery on the tag. It reads:
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I hope this towel inspires you to take flight with your dreams, to see life from a higher view, and to remember that when life feels groundless, it might be an invitation to soar.
Part of me thinks this is cheesy.
Part of me knows it's not.
Go! Grab your wings and take off!
The wind is at your back and the view is gorgeous from up here!
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Towels are in my shop. I'm excited they flew in, in time for holiday shopping!

11/17/2022

Journeying within and with nature this Advent to learn more about the nature of personal change and transformation.
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This is not your traditional Advent offering. It weaves animal guides, natural transformation like hibernation and metamorphosis, the Christmas story, and the solstice together to help you embrace ways you might be experiencing personal growth and change right now.
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Approaching the Light that is coming to greet us and the Light already in us means getting really close to uncertainty and the unknown. We’ve all had a lot of that these past few years!
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But close proximity to the unknown is how we change and grow. The new is new because we don’t yet have a relationship with it…and that can be intimidating and scary.
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Soul Journeys: A Transformative Advent honors the excitement, fear, and confusion that comes with change, and invites both Nature and Spirit to teach us how to navigate it so that we can truly grow and embody the light.
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I don’t know what your personal transformation will look like, but I trust the journey is sacred and worth taking.
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If you’d like to more info on the self-guided course, feel free to DM me and/or check my Stories.

10/31/2022

I pulled an “I Wonder…” card from my deck and got a *perfect* invitation for Samhain and Halloween!
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“I wonder…if my Hope travels through time and can reach the past and future, as well as the present.”
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The veil is thin within us. Regrets surface. The past may haunt us. The future might loom. Even hope and excitement can feel a bit scary at times like these.
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What if we could offer prayer, hope, intention, and loving presence into what frightens us?
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What if we could imagine those blessings traveling throughout our lifetime: past, present, and future?
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What would it feel like to speak hope and receive across veils?
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Happy Halloween, friends! Samhain blessings!