 We have just crossed through the Summer Solstice portal.
Here in Oregon it was windy, cold and rainy, quite suddenly, for a couple of days, right when the sun was at his zenith. A friend of mine, with whom I spent the weekend doing ceremony in the forest, said that in some stories the sun is the child of the rain god and the earth goddess.  I’m writing to you today from a new threshold.
After weeks of sending newsletters that may never have reached your inbox, I've just spent a chunk of hours working to troubleshoot, refine, align—so that what I send might arrive to your inbox and not your spam. In the event you've wondered where I'd gone, I was sending out my signals but they were being directed elsewhere:  I didn’t want to write this today.
I almost didn’t. But something inside whispered, “Maybe you don’t have to write from effort… maybe you can write from where you are.”  In these times of deep, foundational shift, we can maintain center and groundedness by synching up with Nature's biorhythms. Sometimes referred to as "Circadian Rhythm..."
 I have just returned from a little journey through the mountains, where I stopped to visit my late father's favorite blue pool beneath a waterfall along the Mckenzie River. It was so lush and alive that I couldn't get as close as usual because there was such an expansive force of water droplets in the air.
 How are you sleeping lately? I took sleep for granted for most of my life and found it easy to fall asleep no matter where I was, even in my 20's while traveling through airports, when I could fall asleep on the floor with folks bustling about around me. I also stayed up late often, taking advantage of the quiet dark hours to unburden myself creatively and savor the feeling of having time for myself. But all of that crashed  Do you feel the thaw happening in our collective nervous system as the springtime energies stir things up? An oriented and resilient nervous system can sense these stirrings and changes as a kind of raw aliveness...
 Existential safety is honestly one of my favorite subjects, and I could nerd out about it forever. Why? Because it's what I learned when I was in the depths of hell and nothing in my life felt stable or safe (For some perspective: I could not even trust my body to fall asleep without having a MAST cell reaction that was on the caliber of going into anaphylactic shock).
 This week I am continuing to share on the theme of establishing safety in your nervous system through turning attention now to your life circumstances and implementing a sense of agency.
 This week I have another special share: an interview with a long-time client who is applying our work together to unravelling greater social & cultural narratives tied to systems of oppression and abuse of power. Not only can this work heal an ailing body and soul, but it can unlock
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