Listen. Because listening’s important:
Hi and welcome to the Re-Enchant Your Life reminder.
Your sacred pause in the day where you’re encouraged to take a moment to stop and tune into your inner wisdom and become present, so that you can reconnect to your personal power and confidently embrace who you’re becoming, as you Re-Enchant Your life and create the change you truly desire.
Today you’re being reminded to hold space for yourself.
Hold yourself with love and compassion.
Be firm with your boundaries.
Know where you end, and other people begin.
It’s time to recognise all that you have been through, the challenges that you have faced and continue to face, and honour how you truly feel about them.
We can often try and put on a brave face or focus on the positives, but denying the truth only buries the pain and discomfort, it doesn’t heal, resolve or allow it to pass though you
It sits there accumulating more, waiting to get your attention.
Hold space for yourself to feel your feelings, do what you need to do to let go and move through it.
Hold yourself with love and compassion.
You no longer need to carry the pain within you.
You certainly don’t have to do it alone.
Know where you end, and others begin so that you don’t carry the emotional weight and expectations of others.
Everything in nature has the ability to restore itself, to heal and come back to balance. As you are an integral part of nature, this power is within you too.
But you must give yourself the opportunity to do this, give yourself the right surroundings, and of course permission.
For healing to appear externally, it must of course be healed within first.
Adding a band-aid of bypassing will not heal an issue.
You must show yourself compassion and be willing to feel all the feels, even when it makes you uncomfortable.
To be able to do this, to consciously acknowledge your pain, without allowing it to take over, brings you into deeper integrity with yourself.
In this very moment, just pause and take a breath, as you hold space for yourself.
Today’s SHEro Action:
Today’s SHEro action is to acknowledge your feelings.
To breath into them and allow yourself to feel them.
As you do, hold space for yourself.
Show yourself the same tender love and compassion that you would a new born child.
Ask yourself what you need?
Do you need to do anything with the feelings, take action, write about them, share them, or do you just need to witness them?
Pause, and take a breath. As you allow yourself to be held by your own love and compassion.
Today’s Affirmation:
“I feel my feelings, even if they make me and others uncomfortable”
I’ll see you tomorrow for your daily reminder to Re-Enchant Your Life with me, Rebecca-Anuwen,
In the meantime, enjoy holding space for yourself as you walk Your SHEro’s Journey!
PostScript
I’ve often been told that hold incredible space for people. Whether it’s in sessions, group settings or my Red Tents, it’s something I don’t really think about as I’ve done it for so long it just seems natural.
But when I’m asked how to hold space and what it actually means, this is what I respond:
Holding space for yourself literally means that you are the container, the edges and the boundaries so that you can give yourself the space to feel, express, and grow.
It’s the space where you can retreat to so that you give yourself the time and space you need to respond to life instead of reacting.
It’s being present.
Being present to yourself, your truth, your dreams and desires.
It’s being present with yourself so that you treat yourself with love, kindness and compassion.
It’s about being considerate of yourself and your experience.
It’s about listening to your physical, emotional, mental and spiritual needs.
It’s about giving yourself space to hear the call of your soul.
Holding space for yourself is a way of being.
Imagine going through life as your own best friend, that would be holding the most incredible space for yourself.
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