I was out walking in the misty morning drizzle. It was the day after I had been at a company doing readings and I had blocked out time in my schedule to allow my energy to reset in nature. I learned long ago that if I didn’t take time for self care that my ability to perform my job would be compromised and more than that, I would feel like crap.

As part of my Druid training there was an exercise called “not doing” where you do something differently or not do it- for example, wearing your watch on the opposite wrist or sitting at a different place at the dinner table etc. It was something that I adopted into my life after performing the exercise because I found it helpful. Today, I was walking my woods loop backwards. I knew that I was stuck on something and I needed to see it from a different viewpoint. So, I walked my loop backwards knowing that it would force my brain to look at the issue differently. Not only did it allow me to look at my issue differently, ultimately allowing me to find a resolution but it also gave me things to ponder. I walk past these trees on a daily basis, sometimes more than once, but I saw them differently today. I saw one tree holding another one up and asked myself, “who do you allow to hold you”. I recoiled at the thought of this. It clearly was an area for personal growth. I struggled to allow people to hold me, to really be vulnerable with someone. It wasn’t something that I was proud of and it was absolutely something that I wanted to change about myself. So, as I walked I made a conscious decision to allow a couple of people in my reality to hold me both figuratively and literally.