On Living in Alignment with Our Innate Wholeness

Today I reflect on traveling for a Celebration of Life gathering over the weekend. I am reminded of Freud's famed writing on Mourning & Melancholia, fallibility, atonement, and am grateful for the power of rituals and recent seasonal opportunities for intention-setting. 

As the days grow shorter, I call in safety and ease. I invite nourishment, love, pleasure, and a deeper understanding of what needs to be let go. I attend to all that may be getting in the way of my True Self. I see the addiction to suffering, to over-working, to our own internalized oppressor who keeps us feeling stuck. Living in pain and helplessness, we dissociate from our innate wholeness. 

So many of us lose connection with what it feels like to feel WELL and in alignment with our values. How do we re-orient to live a life in alignment with ourselves?

The inner-excavation work can feel like deep sorrow and heartache, reminding me of the younger parts of me that “refuse to grieve." I cling to my relentless hope in order not to have to feel the pain of my disappointment- a defense ultimately against grieving. 

This Fall, I invite us all to reflect on the relentlessness of your outrage, despite any efforts and most fervent desirse, to grieve heartbreaks. How do we hold on, to relent, to forgive, to accept, to separate, to let go, and to move on? As Martha Starks teaches us the “realistic hope [that] will arise in the context of surviving the disappointment and heartbreak.” 

I'd love to hear from others what are you harvesting this season? How are you taking steps, however small to live a life in alignment with your heart's desires?