Healing At Midnight
Blessings to you as we approach the longest night of the year. I know amidst this winter solstice, that many are experiencing their own long night of the soul.
This week, I've had heartfelt conversations with people who are navigating the inner disorientation that often accompanies the call of the soul, the call to heal. The instability, transitions such as leaving and losing jobs, not being able to work as much, lots of tears, grief, anxiety, and fear.
The path of healing isn’t all rainbows and butterflies. It’s mostly terrifying honestly. When the momentum of your life takes a drastic turn. The familiar ways, the routines your family and environment are accustomed to — all shifting. In the initial stages, listening and acting on intuitive impulses feels like moving with no home and no ground.
Yet, even in these moments, I know you are catching the glimmers
I remember in 2013 when this was me.
I didn’t graduate from university and do what everyone else did. I wanted to do something drastically different that made no sense to anyone I was around. Including myself.
I couldn’t sleep, I had anxiety up to my eyeballs, and I was working 7 days a week to make this dream come true. This time of my life was a blend of terror, exhaustion, stubbornness, and a peculiar numbness - yet paradoxically, the thought of conforming to the status quo felt even more terrifying.
Landing the first time in the manifestation of my soul, which at the time was a farm in Ireland... Words, fall short of describing what happens when after nearly a decade of depression meets hope.
I know how it feels. I've walked this path.
And know you’re certainly not walking alone, it feels like so many people are walking out into the unknown, yet loud, yearning of their soul.
As you find yourself in this long night externally, and perhaps an internal one too. I encourage you to embrace the stillness that the darkness invites. Take a moment to connect with your eternal light—the radiant jewels that shimmer the brightest in the dark.
Hold fast to the spark of knowing that propelled you into your healing journey.