There is so much to say that I'm not sure where to even begin. I want to keep this short for the sake of our over-saturated information-obsessed brains. I imagine you are hurting and burnt out with snippets of revolutionary joy and progress woven into the tapestry of what it is to be a human right now. We have got to take a deep breath in and out. We have to pause to gain footing, ground, and to remember our nature; remember that we came here during this time for a reason.
I am back home in Boston after spending a life changing week in upstate NY at Omega Institute For Holistic Studies, where I attended a retreat entitled, Recovering Wholeness with meditation teacher, author and Psychotherapist, Ralph De La Rosa. The week was nothing less than total (science based) magic and I had breakthrough after breakthrough, connected with incredible human beings, met my inner-child with unconditional love and was able to truly feel into the Oneness, inspiration and pure potential we are all made from.
A few years back, I went on a retreat with one of my all-time favorite authors, Rebecca Campbell. Little did I know that this retreat would change the course of my entire life. Through this experience, I was inspired to move closer to my embodiment of Self-Love; I began to acknowledge and release so many of the fears I had around the shadow parts of myself (including, but not limited to my addictions to dieting, restricting and binging) and I began to remember who I was before society got it's dirty hands on me.
In the practice of Astrological healing, the moon teaches us how to embody, embrace and celebrate the rhythmic and cyclical nature of all living things ( I am talking about you, me and all of us loving ourselves so deeply that absolutely nothing can stop us from being the beacons of light that we are here to be).
As I enter into new relationships in my life, I remember what new love feels like and how we can get so swept up in the romance of it all, that when the painful pimple of reality pops up, it paralyzes us, frustrates us and makes us feel like this whole thing called love just isn't worth it. If you are anything like me, sometimes you just want to hide and run away never to have to deal with any of it ever again.
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About 7 years ago, I woke up one Sunday around 2PM. I was exhausted, I couldn't breath very well and my entire body ached like I had been run over by an eight-wheeler at a Monster Truck Rally. I honestly thought I was dying (and the truth is, I was.)