The Value of Rest: Staying Home & Taking (Self) Care this Winter

The time has changed, winter is coming. We’re heading for darker times, deeper nights and deeper dreams. Just as we’re approaching the holidays, we’re being asked to stay home and stay safe. In many ways, I know you’re feeling tired. I am too. So I’m resting. How will you choose to embrace what lies ahead?

Here are a few ideas to support you in making the best decisions for yourself and your loved ones. 

Listen to the wisdom of your body.  Trust your body knows exactly what it needs.

If you’re tired, rest. 

Healing will take place as you sleep. 

Sleep/rest will boost your immune system. 

Sleep can strengthen your heart.

Rest will support your nervous system / help you stay calm, patient, and positive.

Dreaming will help process all that you’re feeling / going through.

Dreaming can offer you a new perspective / sacred action to take.

What if you’re unable to rest? You feel overwhelmed, anxious, or longing to feel some sort of normalcy by being with your family for the holidays. What if you have to continue working, despite the discomfort? What if your feelings feel like too much to hold right now?

What else can I do?!

Desperate times call for transformative measures! 🙌

What if you took a moment to EMBRACE DISCOMFORT?

As you would for your child, pet, your beloved. What would this look/feel like for you?

 In your gut you know you’re not addressing the deeper sensations within, but the thought of being with the feeling is overwhelming. It’s hard to sit with your sadness/grief, and not know how to fix it.  At times, we’re not even aware of it - grabbing snacks, a drink, vegging out in front of a screen or shopping for things we don’t need. 

*For me, embracing my discomfort looked like laying on the bed in the fetal position, letting my tears fall down my face and a little bit of wailing, all while singing a song.

So what can I do to embrace my discomfort?

Begin by being with all of you and all that you’re feeling.

I assure you, there is comfort on the other side. This simple act of caring for yourself has big rewards. 🧚‍♀️

A Deeper Look at My New Course TRANSFORM FEAR & Why It is Important Now

Hello Dear Ones,

Wherever you may be on our planet today, You are on my mind wholeheartedly. We could all use less suffering right now.  What we can use is more joy, hope.  We are all waiting for things to shift / change / transform.

Individually and collectively, this year has proven the most challenging and grievous.  Whether or not you have been fully present or engaged, you know what is happening. 

We see the ways in which we continue moving forward, and ways in which our movement may feel paralyzed.  We are stuck.  We are waiting.  We are fearful.  We are grieving.  And we are continuing to move forward as best as we can.  That’s what we humans do.  We are resilient.  We are stronger than we know.  Yet, we all carry this burden in our own way. 

This is why I developed the online course TRANSFORM FEAR: Learn to Identify Blocks & Break Through Them.  We cannot let fear, whether big or small, keep us from our joy, our hope, our creativity, stability, connecting to one another, community.  Supporting each other through whatever we may be conflicted with is now more important than ever. 

I believe, the only way we are going to transform our physical world, is by starting within. 

This course will provide you with the tools and practices to support your ability to go within, and identify unwanted, conscious and/or unconscious fear, that is preventing you from moving forward.  Through deepening your awareness of a fear or energetic block, you will be able to sense your Way through with life’s challenges. 

You will learn how to observe, hold, express and transform this fear in a way that will offer you a life-long resource, creating a new relationship to it, to yourself and others.  Learning to shift this fear will forever support you in moving through life’s changes / transitions with ease and grace.

Are you ready to break through these blocks which are preventing you from living your life wholeheartedly?   You will be able to tackle any fear from where you’re at.  You will be supported.  Let me share with you what I know, what I live by, what I have learned from my teachers.  These techniques / exercises / rituals have helped me get through this year and a few others before this one.  Over three sessions + a couple bonus practices, let me guide you to dispel and transform your fear. 

Thanks for listening.  Hope to see you on the other side.

Love & Light,

Angela