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I relate to your journey so deeply. Especially the part about going from no self worth to service based self worth. I valued myself based on how much I could give.... And I gave until there was nothing left. I am so glad you didn't go to Rainbow... I made a similar choice to not go to my yoga teacher training ((taking place right now)). It just felt like too much, and saying NO felt so good!!!!

Great to hear brother, I too had a dark side that has been very difficult to face. I think inner work is so vitally important, and for us men its even harder to do the shadow work. What you're doing for this community alone shows a transcendence of darkness.

I love this so much. Man, throat chakra. That's a challenge for me too. Mine has a habit of breaking physical objects. Any necklace I wear that is too short? Plow. And not just the chain: metal pendants, ceramic, anything in its path. I need a torc. :)

Beautiful video of the festival, beautiful song. You're a critical thinker with a good heart and it's leading you right where you need to go it looks like to me.

I wonder what we could become sometimes if our natural path wasn't being blocked. It looks amazing in visions.

this is lovely. what a blessing! i can see myself in this too

I've had this thought that's reoccurred over the past two years many times, of how I've used my work as an excuse or a distraction from focusing on my work (self-healing), and I've been making gradual shifts away from that.

Thanks for the reflection! it's a powerful time of healing and uncovering all of our blocks to love. Thanks for mirroring your strength, clarity, passion and path- it teaches me a lot just witnessing it!!! excited to see the unfoldment of the beginnings of the community you're creating and landing!! exciting times <3

Hugs!

I too am seeking self worth. Seven years into a healing journey of my own and feeling like I am still at the beginning.

Travelling myself today, to a new situation. A new opportunity.

These reflections you have shared here are stirring up some good stuff... Thanks

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I can fully understand your passion for the solstices and the amazing opportunity for healing they bring. I have experienced it strongly this winter when I really took the days around the solstice to fully withdraw in to my challet in the woods with a fire and a cat. It's almost like nothing else, isn't it? Everything seems to realign because you are realigning yourself with natures rhythms and opening up to the grace from the healing gates that are open at that time. In winter they seemed to me to be cosmic healing gates and in summer when the earth energy is more to the surface it seems to be an earth healing gate. I thankfully sucked the celebratory energy of mother earth up through my feet and through my skin the days around the summer solstice for challenges to come and felt palpably supported.
Reading your article I came across the part where you say: I am valuable & worthy because I AM, not because of the things that I do.
That is such an important truth! To detach our self worth from anything external. So good to remember that we are always loved by life, regardless.
Thanks for sharing. Hope to meet you in the comments at my posts sometimes. I've just written a nice one comparing myself to a beehive 😉 https://steemit.com/tribesteemup/@wombloom/i-am-a-beehive
I am very glad for the support you grant me through tribesteemup, it really helps to keep me going, writing is my secret power like @trucklifefamily put it and this community is worth much to me. So thank you. Greetings Clara