Root Deep to Weather Storms

We live in overwhelming times. We need to know when, where and how to use our power effectively so we don’t keep getting crushed. 

One of my strategies for facing imposter syndrome is to embrace messiness, to use a tolerable level of messy as an invisibility cloak to slip past the harshest hold-back messages. I messy my way through the limiting lies of unattainable perfection, the constantly moving bar of good enough. 

When you can’t seem to focus, when your thoughts seem wildly out of your control, when you don’t even know where to begin, be compassionate with yourself. There are good reasons for not being able to calm our chaotic thoughts. Here are some practical steps to get clear and grounded. 

Sometimes living through unimaginable chaos or loss calls us to be ok with not being ok, to take time to go deep into our own wisdom and process, even if means stepping back from other commitments.

When the world is pushing too hard on you, when you’re spinning and feeling overwhelmed and not sure how you’re going to get through all of this, try this simple heart-guided focusing practice. 

There are plenty of good reasons why we might feel overwhelmed, overloaded, over worked, over stimulated, over committed, or just plain over it. You get to push back against it. 

You can use the ancient wisdom of death as ally to point you back to your own wisdom, to get the back in touch with the meaningfulness that we all crave.