I sat with my eyes closed as I began to shift my awareness from the inner landscape of myself to the outside world and the room I was in. I began to listen for sounds in the room, I could smell the essential oil diffuser that was running. I wasn’t really ready to open my eyes yet so I left them closed.
She didn't need to understand
Your new life will cost you your old one
The birth of him and me
I don’t know if I have words
She had severe neck pain which had been present for years, and during the somatic session, it became clear to her that the pain was a way that she was punishing herself. She was punishing herself for being in an environment where she had experienced trauma, punishing herself for not following her intuition and leaving the environment.
Choices
“Hey baby, how was your day,” I asked as he hopped into the back seat of the car.
“Not that great,” he responded as he furrowed his brow.
I looked back at him in the rearview mirror. “What happened, love” I asked.
“I had to do some testing today and it made me mad” he said, with audible anger in his voice.
Tick Tick
I was cozy in bed with the blankets pulled up tight. I had just crawled into bed when the ticking of the heat turning on started. As I lay there in the silence of the night listening to the ticking of the heat I began thinking about a prior version of me.
I began thinking about the woman who would lie in bed at night, cold and shaking, and praying that the tick tick of the heat would start.
Abundance of texts
Hours later, I was finishing my nighttime routine and getting ready for bed. My phone was on silent, sitting on the headboard. I heard a buzz and knew that someone had texted me, but I wasn’t in a space where I wanted to check my phone. My nervous system was calm, my mind was calm, my body was calm and I wasn’t interested in taking the chance of changing that right before going to sleep.
Morning thoughts
There were versions of me who would have tried to prevent her from having the book fall on her and scare her, but this version of me knows that sometimes we need to experience the consequences of our own actions to understand why we shouldn’t do something. So I sat holding my cup of tea, watching what was about to happen.