30 Days of Mindful Flow: Reset, Breath, Body & Soul for Safety-in-Self

When times feel hard…

Hey, beautiful, how does this time of year greet you?

Do you simply want to feel more grounded? In control of your reactions and responses?

Or maybe you want to feel safe enough to feel everything and just know that you’re going to be ok? Maybe you feel a little bit alone, and want to know how to be good with that - to know that YOU have you.

If your Christmas and new year are full of joy and happiness, take heart in the blessings you have - treasure them.

But we all have time and memories that are heavy. This will work for you too.

And if this time of year is indeed extra heavy for you, you need this, every day.  Try it, see what happens.

Loss, in a myriad ways.

Please know that this letter comes with love, and practices for helping you to feel resourced amongst feelings of loss, grief, sadness and anger - for feelings of a missing part of you.

Unspoken Grief and The Connection between Resilience and Peace.

Nothing compares to the sadness we can feel at this time of year. 

We see perfect celebrations - and we want that.

We see happy families - and we want that.

We see food and gifts given with love - and we want that.

But for many of us there is a loss that struggles to leave us. Chances gone, childhoods lost and people - the people who should be with us.

Things don’t always get easier, but we do get stronger, more able to balance the emotions, or learn to accept. 

We don’t want to just cope, we want to live. Coping is the trauma response and doesn’t leave space for life - and despite the pain there’s something we feel iwithin us which comes in the shape of hope for more. Faith that it’s there, waiting for us.

So we find ways to arm ourselves with resilience - a much-underrated skill that needs to be developed in times of calm.

And mindful resilience does that.

It allows us to feel what we want and need to feel, allows us to dwell with the memories of where our grief is, to stay connected to our deepest loves and our deepest pains. And it does this with out making us crumble.

We learn to feel, and we learn to live the day ahead knowing that we have one life and we will not let our grief take this away too.  This is a goal above others that matters.

The key is to find your way through in a way that works for you - for you, your future self and for the people you love. Give them a happier you: give Future You a glimmer of a happier life.

So join me for 30 Days.

Every day from Saturday 7th December til January 5th, I will send you a practice. Many will be quick, short and simple - but the effects are life-altering. They changed my life and I want you to feel the same way. Open e  very one and give yourself 5 minutes - what you need most that day will be there in the practice.

Practicing in times of calm, every day, for just a few minutes, can make a world of difference.

Know that every human deserves peace and happiness, and that includes you.

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Yolanda