medicine ways.
Medicine Ways
are on my heart.
I returned from my Shamanic Training Retreat this week with a wide open heart. Taking space to hold space for myself and share my vulnerabilities is allowing me to step into my path fearlessly with the energy of hummingbird pulling me forward. Going through extreme losses over the last several years had torn me apart more than I had fully realized. Digging into this pain revealed to me deeper pain laying dormant in my psyche taking up significant mental space in my day to day life. These are occurrences that happen below the surface and when stacked on top of each other it’s easy to hide our pain from ourselves—but it lingers. It was clear when pain that I had been experiencing daily suddenly disappeared with somatic release experiences during my retreat. Being a psychologist can be an easy intellectual process when it comes to compartmentalizing pain and moving forward with taking care of others. It is not from a wounded healer that I choose to be in service of others, but from a place of knowing my limits, knowing when and how to push my limits of comfort and discomfort and navigating my own field with knowing, wisdom, action, and love from a centered heart.
Cacao as the medicine of the heart.
Making medicine inspires joy in my heart and sharing it expands my capacity to love. When years ago I received the message that gifts are meant to be shared, I didn’t fully believe that I had any gifts to share. I knew intellectually, that I had gifts to share, but at the same time, my mind was weaving patterns of negative self-worth and critical voices that would drown my deepest desires and new dreams to manifest. I slowly started chipping away at the ego creations that limited my capacities. Many of my shamanic training experiences, plant medicines, Reiki offerings and trainings, Ayurveda and many more natural and holistic Indigenous practices like walking on the land, have continued to expand my heart and clear space for me to heal pain in my being. Over the last several years, my love for plant medicines has grown as well as my deep desires to serve; as so, my love for ceremonial grade cacao has cracked me open.
During a time of my life that was filled with darkness, cacao lit the way and kept my heart open to possibilities. That’s the magic of cacao and the power of the ancestral wisdom ways to enrich all that we do.
In 3 short weeks I get on a plane to Guatemala to continue learning about cacao directly from Mayan Spiritual leaders, visiting the cacao farms and putting my hands to work on making my own cacao medicine. I plan to share as much as I can from this journey and I invite you to support my cause so I can continue sharing about Indigenous medicine and about ceremonial grade cacao from Guatemala.
To support my fundraiser, consider joining my new membership plan and join me to devote to a 14-day breathwork challenge.
At the end of the 14 days, we will celebrate with drinking ceremonial grade cacao together online.
UPCOMING SCHEDULE
NOVEMBER: 14-day Breath challenge & Cacao Gratitude Celebration
DECEMBER: 10-day Breath challenge & Cacao Solstice Celebration
January: New challenges & SACRED course offerings (SACRED Activation. Aligning with Soul Purpose, Conveying Inner Truth, Upshifting Body Function, Trusting your Intuition, Administering Self Healing, Living in Freedom)
