‘The one who plants trees knowing she will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.’
-Rabindranath Tagore
Ten years ago I walked out of working in hospitals believing I’d never go back. Not because I didn’t like the job, but because my nervous system completely collapsed inside a bigger broken system that was also collapsing.
Volunteering in palliative care was not on my conscious radar a year ago, so my chest thumped in my throat as I walked back through the sliding doors last week for some training.
Had to let out a big sigh and laugh at the absurdity.
Previously, I serviced pacemakers and programmed hearts in dying patients, now I’m servicing patients and witnessing hearts in dying patients.
See how life did that?
What if everything you’ve said ‘yes’ to is coming full circle in some way?
What if everything has been preparing you for your next transition?
Preparation beats planning.
Planning is based around the expectation of order, whereas preparation is based on the expectation of chaos.
This is why we spend countless hours on the yoga mat or cushion, to be in the chaos.
A death doula enters with no agenda except to witness and hold space for anything. To be an extra spiritual backbone for a human making their final full circle transition.
I know there’ll be plenty of mistakes and I’ll fall awkwardly short of showing up as my best self some days, and that may also be of service.
Trusting there’ll be a ripple effect into how I parent, partner, mentor and teach.
There will be more of us bringing forward gifts or old abilities we’ve abandoned in the past. A sudden surge out of necessity to change systems and modernise oppressive structures. Schools, education, healthcare and politics and corporate are calling for intuitives, mystics, artists and healers of divine feminine wisdom.
Imagine you’ve been given a vision of a new paradigm that will transform how we live and die, and then you try to ignore it. Ouch, it will grind you down into depression eventually.
You are absolutely capable of creating the vision tree you can’t stop thinking about, even if you won’t enjoy the shade.
“The idea is to write fire until it comes out of my ears, my eyes, my noseholes - everywhere. Until it’s every breath I breathe. I’m going to go out like a fucking meteor”
- Audre Lord
Love Tina
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