Spring is a blossoming, an unfolding

Well, if you’re joining me in the northern hemisphere, we’ve made it. We have made it through the restful cave of winter, and we are entering a portal into spring. And maybe it’s just me, but I am a little bit strung out.

There is so much energy here, I don’t really know what to do with it. My body hasn’t quite adjusted yet, and I’ve gone and done a little bit too much this week. I've moved all the furniture around in my house, attended events with friends, spent more time on my passion projects, and moved my body because it felt good. All things I wanted, but I'm feeling stretched. Hopeful, yet overwhelmed.

So today is a day for me to collect myself. To set down my to-do lists, cleaning, the motion I’ve gotten swept up in and just slow down a bit. Yes, to go outside and enjoy the sun, but to really tune into the pace of nature right now. Sensing back into that “waking up slow” feeling.

And so, I had my sacred coffee with myself this morning—that time where I just sit and check in with myself like a good friend. I ask myself 'how are you, really?' and I listen without expectations and with patience to observe however it is that I am, and allow that be okay.

I noticed I was a little tired. I noticed I needed to come back to myself. Like I was an out-of-focus image with many different images overlaid, and I needed to pause and let everything come back together. To ‘catch up’ with myself and really arrive in my present experience.

And from that place is how I want to do the day and interact with people. To keep it simple, present, honest. (And funnily enough, I actually recorded myself doing that coffee check-in live, because it’s a practice I wanted to share with you. But the recording program I used kept crashing, and it was causing me so much frustration…and this is where it dawned on me that right now, I need to keep it so simple and take care of myself through this transition). So here we are. 

All I want to say is: we made it. Check in with yourself. Go slow. And wake up to spring slowly. 

Above all else, keep it simple. Because then you’ll leave space for the magic and noticing of whatever you’re waking up to as the seasons shift and new energy arrives. (And these are reminders for me as much as for you.)

We made it through the portal. Huzzah.

If how you felt right now was a collage, what would the different images be?