Dear Ones,
I’ve been feeling the weight of the world deeply in my body. Leaning in deeply to Andrea Gibson’s poem Good Grief…
Let your
heart break
so your spirit
doesn’t.
These times are intense. We are living through so much turmoil and a daily onslaught of nervous system overwhelm. The impact of which is bound to show up in our most intimate relationships by way of frazzled edges, shorter fuses, and more push pulls for control.
I invite you to feel the weight of the moment. Let the grief, the gravitas, the gravity of it all orient you.
This Friday our Relationally Rooted series continues with a workshop on Boundaries and Edges from 4:30-8p at The Living Room at Full Circle in Gardiner and we still have room for you to join us.
Last month, a group gathered for Turning Toward, the first session of The Relationally Rooted Series. We began by noticing how discomfort shows up in each of us: what it feels like in our bodies, what we do or say in response, what it sounds like when we listen. Cultivating a micro-practice of noticing, turning toward, inquiring what discomfort wants us to know, meeting it well. Then turning towards it again to sense how discomfort feels toward us and how we feel toward it.
This Friday we’ll revisit the arc we built in the Turning Towards session and build from that scaffold in our work with Boundaries and Edges. Discomfort teaches us something about our edges. About what doesn’t feel okay. This information helps us establish internal boundary practices that help us to stay grounded and feel more okay, especially in challenging relational moments.
Healthy boundaries aren’t about what others do or don’t do. They help you sense what feels okay, what doesn’t, and hold your limits with care, clarity, and congruence. When your boundaries align with your values and intentions, they help you stay connected and build trust in yourself.
Then on Friday November 21st, we land the series with our last session Rupture and Repair.
We need these relational practices now more than ever. Ways of being together that help us trust ourselves and our capacity to be with what’s hard. A being with that reminds us our our humanity and helps us navigate forward with intention and integrity.
With love,
Rebecca ♡
