Turning In: Healing Into The End of 2020

Shedding and Letting Go

What have you taken on that you can shed as the year comes to an end? Where in your body do you experience holding on and letting go?

Release

In what ways do you find (rel)ease in letting go? Will what you shed be gone completely, or are you setting some things aside to revisit at another time? What values do you associate with “letting go”?

Process

In what ways can you honor what may now no longer serve you? What are the stages and processes associated with letting go? Is there ceremony or ritual surrounding your own process of release as you close out the year?

Revelation

What is revealed in the process of letting go? What previously hidden structures do you notice? How does shedding clear spaces for you?

Recovery

Developing and engaging in practices that recover time for self. Working around obstacles to our individual and collective recovery. Slowing down, being at rest, being silent - all of these are actions.

Replacing

Letting go is a process, one that requires work. What else will fill the spaces that are freed up? Reframing capitalist work ethic/productivity as defining our worth and replacing that with models that sustain all people

Redistributing

Letting go allows us to redistribute our energy, moving it away from things that no longer serve us to areas that require more of our attention and intention.

Ancestors

Calling on our ancestors for grounding and rooting, for gratitude, for knowledge and wisdom. Remembering ways of being in right relation with self and community.

Embodiment

My body is my house and must be kept “in order”. Cultivating the grounding and presence necessary to notice and experience joy.

Dreaming and Visioning

Slowing down, many of us have noticed the need for a better life, and have dreamed and visioned this for our families and communities: we are deserving of this. Manifestation.

Wounded healer

Exploring the female archetype as having a tremendous capacity for nurturance and healing. What forces act on her to nourish others vs. herself, to pour from an empty cup?

Recognizing

Acknowledging the patterns that have served you in the past. Honoring them and holding them with care and respect, not shame or disregard.