I learned a new life hack, traveling so often for all kinds of trainings and retreats I'm hosting and attending....I've learned to rest and restore BEFORE I get home. That way, I can enjoy and take in the place that I've traveled to, AND come home refreshed for my clients and commitments
When I focus on restoring, resting, and resource... a new kind of capacity emerges from my being. I have more capacity to be my full self, to learn, to take in and absorb new information and ideas, to set better boundaries and have clearer limits, and to hold space for others in a completely deeper and more potent and present way.
It's the truthiest truth that we can only take our clients as deep and wide as we allow ourselves to desire to take ourselves. It's also deeply true that we can only be there for others in genuine, truthful, real care and nourishment to the extent to which we care for and nourish ourselves.
I have vowed to myself to show up for myself in the way I show up for the people I love. To "show myself," not just tell myself, my care for myself. We have one vessel for our soul, and that is our body, and everything falls into alignment and resonance when we care for it. It's our sacred duty and responsibility to be our own most loving inner parent that we can be.
I used to be not very good at feeding myself when traveling for training. I had this story that I just liked to be "light" so I can take in the learning more easily. This story was a defense mechanism to the ways in which I found it challenging to source the healthful, wholesome foods I generally eat while I'm home. Now, I treat myself like I treat the women who join my retreats. If you've been on my retreats, you know my standards for your nourishment are high. I always tell our Chef Chani that I want the menu to be abundant, colorful, delightful, magical, and nourishing for the body and soul. I try to do this for myself as much as I possibly can now, even while I'm traveling.
I spent the last day and a half of this training checked into a hotel near the water, sleeping a 12-hour night, journaling, reading, walking, eating fresh fruits and veggies, doing yoga, hydrating a lot, creating and planning new ideas, and exploring art. By the time I get home, I won't need to "recover"; my body feels nourished, and all I will need to do is unpack and wake up tomorrow morning refreshed to see my clients.
Sooner rather than later, I bless you to know your preciousness unequivocally. I bless you to grieve (if needed) (even over and over if needed) and then fully take on the role of your own loving inner caregiver. I bless you to come home to your body, your inner being, your capacity.
I bless you that your self love should be inside of every inch of your body and in the way you treat your body. I bless you to commit to yourself always. In all places and in all times and in all ways.
I bless you with permission to yourself to raise your standards. To be even kinder to yourself. To notice where you can show up for yourself even more deeply. To gift yourself surprises and adventures and a magical life, AND the gift of consistency and presence.
You are the precious thing you are alive for.
You are the most precious person in your entire existence.
We want a world filled with nourished humans, filled with capacity, strength, resilience, courage and life force... we have to become one. Here is permission for you to be nourished.
As my favorite poem says:
"Everything flowers from within... of SELF blessing"
Amen, and so it is.
