09/04/2020
Hey sweet friends. I just wanted to pop in and say hello. I miss you. I miss holding space as an officiant and as a yoga teacher. I can’t wait to connect and play and love in person again.
I know that we’re all eagerly awaiting “normal”... and I sure do hope that time comes sooner than later. But I want to encourage you to do your best to really be present in your life right now, exactly the way that it is, even if it’s not in the ideal way you imagine.
There is so much fear, sadness, and confusion happening and it’s truly impacting us all. I think we’re all reaching and grasping at the memory of normal, of life as it was, and waiting desperately for those days to return. I believe they will. And I believe the ache and the longing for those times is completely normal and valid.
In the midst of those feelings though, can we also lean in to them and recognize that this... this weirdness, this newness, this bizarre and scary reality IS our lives right now. And as much as we may want to push it away and resist it, can we still, even if it’s just for short fleeting moments, find a glimmer of gratitude and presence for what is?
My hope is that we all navigate this time with grace and deep inner strength, even if it’s layered with fear and anxiety and desperation. I pray that lives are spared and that clarity and resolution comes soon. I keep in my heart all of the people who are working the frontlines and those who are nearing the end of their time and the families who must grieve for them at a distance.
Honor, grieve, celebrate, hate it all, start over, try again, love more, cry, practice patience, go for walks, play games, talk to loved ones, pray, meditate, move your body... this is the process. And all we can do is our best.
Sending love.
J♥️