Bones and tendons, discs shifting, equilibrium compromised,
my world came crashing down around me – I was forced to come to a halt.
Burdened, over giving and controlling – I was the fierce mother who couldn’t let go.
My body told me it was time to stop and the herniated disc told me of a deeper internal pain locked inside.
This was the beginning of my memories of myself returning to me…
With deep contemplation I sifted and sorted my life stories, exploring and gathering information that led me back to clarity and vision.
A time of reawakening my creative self, threading the needle as I gathered the pieces together and designed the new life I wished to create.
A time of true authenticity I stripped away the layers of identity and roles, revealing the shame, the shadows and the rules that no longer fit. I found truth telling was a creative practice. This was the awakening time of a spiritual re-orientation, a seeking and finding process that was deeply personal and grounded in transformative art as practice.
The herniation of my life was assigned as a painful clue that I had lost myself.
Engaging in a period of introspection and silence I began to unravel my deepest fears, finding a pervasive unwellness that surrounded me. Engaging my creative intuition I entered my own personal myth, a mythos journey. It became a healing path, my way back. A playful, engaging, facing fear and doing it anyway, exuberant reclaiming!
I discovered my new map and explored the landscape of my life. It was the season of letting go, stripping myself of my roles, identity and perceived purpose – a season of seeking and finding new energy, new reasons to thrive, renewing and restoring myself as I moved into the life-stage of Finding Gypsy…
Follow the tales and inspiration of this time, the end of a life phase and the beginning of my journey to wholeness. Periodically I will share from my unpublished book Finding Gypsy: Exploring the Archetype of the Creative Wild, where I share the stories of my own creative unfolding!
Reclaim your deepest wild creative self…
