Healing Ash

09/17/2023

The more we can be present with our own emotions, the more we can be present for those we love 💜

Offering guidance to help us be present in our full emotional experience without feeling overwhelmed.

07/31/2023

Earth medicine 🙏🏻💜

07/16/2023

Find your light, in the night, in the silence,
in the places it is challenged and diminished,
where you might have to reach deep and pull hard,
and hold on, hold on to your light song.
Where the storm is loud and the wind is rough
and the way is lonely,
where light as love has been forgotten.

Find your light, in the night, in the silence,
in the sacred space eternal where our flame is an inferno
and it burns, burns so bright and clean and clear,
Can you close your eyes and see it?
Radiant, stunning, no room for smallness,
The darkness calls us back here
To remember.

We are light, in the night, in the silence,
We are whole, we are fierce, we are love.
We are worthy and we are needed.
We came here for a reason.
It’s time to really be it.

💜

https://healingash.com/find-your-light/

07/06/2023

So many of us are in a releasing process, letting go of old structures, beliefs, relationships, literal and metaphorical "stuff"...so that we can move forward in the truth of who we are.

Sometimes when we try to let go, we end up keeping the energy of those things we are trying to release still attached to us, through aversion, resentment, anger, shame, and fear.

When we can bring an honoring to our releasing, rather than torn, frayed ends ripping from our energy field, things can be unhooked, smoothed, sealed with light, and brought to completion.

This is real freedom that helps us remember and appreciate the joy, the contribution, the growth, and the sweetness that was real and special, while being open to the next experience that will align with our new frequency.

Wishing you peace in letting go 💜

07/02/2023

May our hearts be open to receiving loving kindness 💜

06/30/2023

The first one was so sweet, we had to do it again :) If you are curious about shamanism, looking to deepen or expand your personal practice, or seeking grounded spiritual community, we hope you'll join!

Link to register:
https://pocketsuite.io/book/glasswingmedicine/item/demystifying-shamanic-journeys

06/28/2023

I don’t know how to do this.

It feels like I’m supposed to, like I should have the skills or the strength, like it’s not supposed to be so hard and it must be something I’m not doing right or good enough or hard enough to still be here in the struggle.

So I internalize that and shame gets added to struggle and sadness. I keep just pretending I know what I’m doing, until I pause, until I get tired, until I feel vulnerable, until it doesn’t work, and my defenses can’t hold back the accumulation that seeks release.

My body won’t let me pretend for too long these days. That’s the blessing and the curse of doing the work…the old ways of dissociation, avoidance, stuffing, escape just don’t have any mileage to them, barely offer the momentary reprieve. Lame. I know too much.

I know that the “shoulds” aren’t helpful and there’s no “supposed to.” I know that we can only ever be in our experience and feel our feelings to completion. I know all feelings are valid and don’t need justification. And also, I know that shame keeps us stuck in painful trauma patterns, and self-compassion and nurturance are the soothing balm to our inflamed inner critic.

And yet…it’s so hard to remember when we’re in it.

I also know that so many of us experience these same loops, pressures, judgments, worries, and discomforts…and we think we are alone in it, or somehow less evolved or proficient than all the other people trying to manage their s**t. We compare our insides to other people’s outsides and use that to measure our relative worth and value. It’s pretty unfair.

Whatever our “this” is…we’re really not supposed to know how to do it. We’re certainly not supposed to know how to do it gracefully, quickly, or efficiently. Because we’ve never done it before, not in this moment, this heart, this body. And we are here to learn.

As much as I want to rush through it and get to the other side, I know the richness, growth, and wisdom lies in the messy churning of the process.

I’m going to work with this affirmation, and I hope it offers you something too 💜

I am exactly where I need to be on my unique path of evolution and healing.

06/21/2023

Happy solstice! Summer officially begins and we are gifted with the longest day of light.

It is a time to celebrate abundance, bounty, growth, movement, warmth, and an energetic exuberance and aliveness!

It is also a time of culmination and completion, a height that we have been building toward and investing in, with our hopes, dreams, wishes and longings.

For fun and playfulness, for getting out in the sun, the water, the trees, the music.

For communing with friends and being in the energy of gathering.

For lightening the weight of the winter and shedding energetic skins we no longer need.

For freedom, ease, joy, pleasure, embodiment.

It is an opportunity to be fully present in what is, appreciating the richness this earth and this life can offer us, knowing it is as sweet as it is short.

My intention for the season is to do the things I love the most as much as I can, and be open to doing them in new and spontaneous ways, to lighten up and go with the flow as I feel it. 💜

What do you want to experience this summer?

06/18/2023

06/06/2023

Morning affirmation 💜

06/05/2023

A helpful check in on the energy themes for the month!

05/21/2023

Vulnerability and surrender.

Not places most of us would choose to enter, but places we find ourselves when forces beyond our control remove the protective coating of safety, real or perceived, internal or external.

Like a snake that has shed its skin, a crab that has outgrown its shell, a seedling that has just broken through the soil, it is of nature to be exposed in periods of loss, transition, and transformation.

It is tender. Our fresh new skin is sensitive, soft, and thin, feeling everything acutely.

It is uncertain. Our steps are shaky and our ground has moved, and we are no longer who we thought we were. We don’t yet know who we are becoming.

It is humbling. We are not in control and we cannot make it move any faster, cannot escape the discomfort of this process, cannot see when relief will come.

We are in liminal space, the in-between world where nothing feels quite right and we can’t go back and we can’t fast forward, and we are unavoidably, uncomfortably here.

Sigh.

Ok, I guess we’re doing this thing.

The surrender comes when we realize we’re too tired to continue to resist, escape, control…

And it wasn’t really working anyway.

So we let go. We let go over and over and over again because there is truly nothing else to do.

And we listen in the wind for the whispers of a promise, a rebirth, a fresh start, a new chapter, a Springtime. We are reminded that things always change and evolve and become, and the in between doesn’t last forever.

We can stand it. We are still here. We are not alone in it. We are indeed held by something greater than we can imagine and we don’t need to have it figured out. We just need to keep showing up, however naked, undone, or lost we feel.

This process is not pretty, or easy, or fun. But beautiful things come into being when we create the space for them. We can’t get there without the vulnerability and surrender of letting go.