Courageously Connecting with Life

I’m excited to announce that we are kicking off Season 4 of my Soulful Practices Podcast!!!

I took a short break this summer to be with my girls and also complete the finishing touches on my new publishing project, The Sacred Witness Oracle Suite, which is also launching later this month. I’m calling forward all the amazing fire energy I can out of this summer season to help ignite and spread the love of these offerings and let them courageously be in connection with all of you too!  

The topic of this season of SPP is near and dear to me because it was literally one of the last soulful energies I was actually willing to accept and have contact with on my own healing journey. The idea of letting down my defensive walls, or stepping out from behind a shield of science and frameworks to be directly with myself, a client, a friend, or a relationship, was terrifying to me. I didn’t mind being in connection to a point. I loved connecting with people through ideas, discussions, theories, and all that good stuff. But asking us to have contact with the other emotionally, spiritually, and from an open heart AND inviting them to share in that connection…yeah that would have been a hard pass for me back in the day. 

In fact, in 2016, that is what my Heart and Soul asked me to do. In October of 2016, I was in the process of starting to kick off my first professional training course on how to do Equine Partnered Psychotherapy and Coaching and teaching the Bridge of Connection™ method. Throughout that whole training, I felt and heard my Heart and Soul screaming at me, "You are not really allowing people to connect with the whole of how you work and why you developed the methods you are teaching." Each night at the end of the training, I felt drained and divided. I could feel my desire to let down all my protective guards and be in the act of connecting with my work and the method I was teaching through my Heart Being and not my Mental Being. In doing so I knew that it would also let others connect with it directly through their Heart and Soul Beings too. My Heart wanted me to allow the participants to feel this work with their Heart, breathe with it, and therefore be open to letting it lead them to their own hearts and truth. And, each morning I would set the intention to try and offer that space, but something would stop me and hold me at a distance of only being about 50% there and open. 

After that training, I dropped into a two-year journey of gaining what I like to now call my PhD in the Soul Medicine of Connecting.  

I’ll be sharing a few key fruits of that journey with you throughout Season Four along with some of my favorite quotes that helped me lovingly and compassionately challenge the protective patterns and fears that I wrestled with along on my journey with the Soul Medicines of Courage and Connecting. I'm happy to say that I now can match my actions with the deep yearning each day to witness that which might be trying to stop me from connecting with myself, my life, and others. I have a daily practice of surrendering over and over again to my Heart’s whispers and invitations to: soften, open, and be in Heart-Led contact with my life, the good parts, the okay parts, and yes the messy parts too. So it is possible! This season is all about helping you illuminate some of those Soulful conversations that can help support you on the journey of couragously connecting too!

And a little fun tidbit 😀 This is a picture that was taken during that training of two of our beautiful equine partners, Cookie and Squire, showing us all how to ask for and engage in Heart-led connecting with each other. Bless them, they were trying so hard to help me get there, it just took a little bit, but I finally got what they were trying to teach me! 

And this memory inspired the card in The Sacred Witness Oracle Deck #51 - Connecting 

You can watch the Season 4 Kickoff Episode 37 - Liberating True Connection on YouTube and Spotify and join me in this week’s Soulful Practice: 

Soulful Practice for this week:

This week I set the intention to open to the ways in which the Soul is asking me to connect the present moment. 

Ask for reiki energy to help guide my Attention to the ways in which: 

• My soul is asking me to shift gears and be in loving contact with a Part of me that I typically hold at arms length or only allow myself to interact with via the “clean detached observation mode
• My heart is inviting me to slow down and linger with a request for connection and how I can be with that request internally or externally. 
• And noticing when I am saying YES to connecting with some part of me, my life, or other that you might typically not be open to as much (I want to celebrate my wins too!). 

Next, get curious and engage in a compassionate self-reflection or dialog with what is either stopping me or what is helping me create willingness to courageously open to my innate wiring to be with and open to an attuned connection. 

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