The New Year is here. I am looking out my window at powder blue sky around and surrounding fluffy white clouds. There are so many small white fluffy clouds interspersed within the blue that I feel I am watching floating light carpets of love. Each one is a gift to touch and open and learn from.

This year particularly is one where I feel open to learning and to revealing myself. As I watch each cloud float through the blue ocean of sky, I gain more and more confidence to be myself as freely as they are in their true purpose. They are so clear and beautiful and revealing and are so much a part of our earth experience, and here before I existed. I imagine myself leaning into them, gently, and feeling their support and touch as I lie on my back and blow my own bubbles of truth into the world.

Speaking of bubbles of truth…I was working with a client who was in a motor vehicle accident a few weeks ago and is still experiencing neck and back pain and stiffness. This particular day her stomach and mid-back were especially tight, and so I took a moment of time to focus on that part. She also is very sensitive to foods and supplements and to what she puts inside of her. I started talking about how her stomach and back are sort of walled off, and that is a protective mechanism that probably started when she was very little.

I asked her how her life was when she was little. She shared that she was the baby of four girls, and every one doted on her. For her, that felt good in a way, but also, their doting on her was not really about her. She wasn’t the one who was seen. Her siblings used her as a way to help and soothe themselves. Some part of her knew this and so in being so over inundated by others before she knew and developed herself, she then built a protection and wall between herself and others.

Now, that is no longer helpful to her. It keeps her from using the nutrition and nurturing that food can bring instead of protecting her. As we were speaking, she really understood this and what wisdom she had, and how to begin to now use this wisdom in a new way.

To me, it is always amazing what our bodies tell us and how they lead us to answers inside of us.

To your new year, and to new growth inside of each of you.

Gail