November is a dark time here in
Northern Hemisphere. It is the time to go within – to nestle
into your own little bubble and turn toward your inner streams and currents.
𝐿𝑒𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓂 𝒸𝒶𝓇𝓇𝓎 𝓎𝑜𝓊.
When there is much to meet and
address, it can feel overwhelming. Whatever it is, however it makes you feel,
there is only one true way to approach it – right through and into it. And
there is only one medicine: love. Only love.
You will never truly come back home
to yourself until you have embraced your Little One - the child you once were, still
living within you, always doing their best, even though you didn’t yet have all
the tools to understand life fully.
Coming home to oneself requires peeling
– gently shedding the layers of what doesn’t resonate or ring true, what doesn’t
make you flow. Truth never feels heavy, yet breaking out of the habit of being your
programmed self is profound work.
Leaving behind the beliefs and
filters handed to you by the family story, your lineage, and your upbringing
begins with your photo album. This is the sacred act of
re-parenting yourself – giving the love and validation your child-self needed.
Are you ready to pay a visit to your younger selves there, on its pages?
The reason we often find it hard to
look at old pictures of ourselves is because of what we see – or rather, what
we feel and know to be part from that specific time.
We are reminded of the hardships we
went through: how heavy, challenging, or undermining life felt; how stuck and
helpless we believed ourselves to be; how imprisoned and restricted we felt within
the world of those we saw as authority figures.
We carry that truth with us until
we are ready to set it down – until we no longer feel the need to hold it as a
proof: proof of why we deserve to be loved and appreciated, proof that we deserve
an easier slope, a smoother path, and more flow from now on.
We do this because we are used to
waiting for permission from someone else – someone with more integrity and
authority – and we blame them when they fail to give it, when they don’t make
us feel heard or seen. We wait for someone who knows better, who sees better, who
sees us more clearly, who is wiser…
Often, it takes time to realize
that this person is us – our future self. The steadier and wiser one. 𝒯𝒽𝑒 𝓂𝑜𝓇𝑒 𝓁𝑜𝓋𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝑜𝓃𝑒 – 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝓌𝒽𝑜, 𝓉𝒽𝓇𝑜𝓊𝑔𝒽 𝓉𝓇𝒾𝒶𝓁 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝑒𝓇𝓇𝑜𝓇, 𝒽𝒶𝓈 𝑔𝓇𝑜𝓌𝓃 𝒾𝓃𝓉𝑜 𝒶 𝓂𝑜𝓇𝑒 𝒸𝑜𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒𝓃𝓉 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓅𝑒𝒶𝒸𝑒𝒻𝓊𝓁 𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓈𝒾𝑜𝓃 𝑜𝒻 𝑜𝓊𝓇𝓈𝑒𝓁𝓋𝑒𝓈.
The path to this version of you starts
from your family album, just as tending your garden begins with tending the
seeds and sprouts, the baby plants. It requires courage, consistency, and
willingness to be there: 𝓈𝑜𝓂𝑒𝓉𝒾𝓂𝑒𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝓈𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝑜 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓌𝑜𝓊𝓃𝒹𝓈, 𝓈𝑜𝓂𝑒𝓉𝒾𝓂𝑒𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝓅𝒾𝒸𝓀 𝓊𝓅 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓅𝒾𝑒𝒸𝑒𝓈, 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓈𝑜𝓂𝑒𝓉𝒾𝓂𝑒𝓈 𝒿𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝓉𝑜 𝒷𝑒 𝓁𝑜𝓋𝑒.
It starts with diving into your
story by finding the pictures that are significant to you – the ones from your very
early years that speak to you, that move your core, that create waves within.
Find one or several, and set aside time
in your daily schedule to nurture your Wee One.
Look at them and let them speak to
you.
Ask them how they feel and what
they would like to tell you.
Let them tell you what they need to
feel well and safe, and then just be all ears.
Close your eyes and invite them to sit
on your lap.
Rock them.
Cradle them.
Sing to them.
Hug them.
Kiss them on their head and breathe
love into their crown.
Tell them the words they’ve been needing
to hear –
the ones they’ve been dreaming of receiving,
the ones that heal by touching
their being and moving their core,
the ones that make them sprout, thrive,
and bloom.
𝒢𝒾𝓋𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓂 𝒶𝓁𝓁 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒽𝒶𝓋𝑒, 𝒶𝓁𝓁 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓀𝓃𝑜𝓌.
𝒢𝒾𝓋𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓂 𝒶𝓁𝓁 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓎 𝒶𝓈𝓀 – 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝑒𝓃𝒸𝑜𝓊𝓇𝒶𝑔𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓂 𝓉𝑜 𝒶𝓈𝓀 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝓂𝑜𝓇𝑒.
𝒯𝑒𝓁𝓁 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓂 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝓁𝑜𝓋𝑒 𝒾𝓈 𝑒𝓃𝒹𝓁𝑒𝓈𝓈, 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝒾𝓉 𝓌𝒾𝓁𝓁 𝓃𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇 𝓇𝓊𝓃 𝒹𝓇𝓎.
𝒯𝑒𝓁𝓁 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓂 – 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓃 𝒹𝑒𝓂𝑜𝓃𝓈𝓉𝓇𝒶𝓉𝑒 𝒾𝓉.
Be their safe place to feel grief,
doubt, and fear.
Nurture them by giving them what
inspires them to lean more fully into their True Self, to choose themselves
more.
Do it to teach them that they
matter, do it to teach them to honour themselves.
Then kiss and hug them some more.
Rock and cradle them some more.
And tell them all the wonderful
things about them that you can think of –
everything you love about them, every
tiny detail you treasure.
Remind them of their strengths,
their victories and their accomplishments –
even if it was just being kind to
another human being, a cat or a butterfly.
𝐻𝑜𝓃𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓂.
𝒮𝒽𝒶𝓇𝑒 𝓈𝒾𝓁𝑒𝓃𝒸𝑒 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓂.
𝑀𝒶𝓀𝑒 𝒾𝓉 𝒶 𝒽𝑜𝓁𝓎 𝓉𝒾𝓂𝑒 – 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝓉𝒾𝓂𝑒 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓂𝑜𝓈𝓉 𝓅𝑜𝓌𝑒𝓇𝒻𝓊𝓁 𝓅𝑒𝓇𝓈𝑜𝓃 𝒾𝓃 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝓌𝑜𝓇𝓁𝒹: 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝓁𝒾𝓉𝓉𝓁𝑒 𝓈𝑒𝓁𝒻.
May it be your sacred time with the
one that means the most.
You are the beginning of all your relationships.
To create more love, peace,
understanding, kindness, and joy,
you must start by giving it to yourself
first –
by making your Little One feel
seen, heard, and accepted.
When they find peace, love and joy,
the same peace, love, and joy will expand
into every one of your relationships.
Because there is only person in
your world – you.
𝐸𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓎𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝑒𝓁𝓈𝑒 𝒾𝓈 𝓂𝑒𝓇𝑒𝓁𝓎 𝒶 𝓂𝒾𝓇𝓇𝑜𝓇, 𝓇𝑒𝒻𝓁𝑒𝒸𝓉𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒷𝒶𝒸𝓀 𝓌𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒶𝓇𝑒 𝓈𝑒𝓃𝒹𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝑜𝓊𝓉.
It is your True Self’s way to stand,
flaming torch in hand, and wait for you.
It is their way – and life’s way – to
whisper to you:
𝒴𝑜𝓊 𝒸𝒶𝓃 𝒸𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓉𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝓎𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔, 𝒷𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝓎𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔. 𝐼 𝒷𝑒𝓁𝒾𝑒𝓋𝑒 𝒾𝓃 𝓎𝑜𝓊.
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May peace be with you.
♡ Hele
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