Tovah Delmont, Thanks for your thoughts and words today. It resonates with my heart and soul. I am 81,a yoga teacher and was a psychotherapist practicing with trauma, abuse and dissociation. I try not to watch the news as it’s so upset. I use all the resources I know and send out healing loving thoughts for the people of Ukraine and the world🙏🧘♂️💕
Every day I feel happy yet angry about the Russian invasion, safe then sad that Ukrainians lives are being destroyed, powerless yet energetic to help change the world. I want no more predators in women's lives, in children's lives, in the lives of citizens in entire countries. Yes, 'F'ing bombs, 'F'ing Putin and all those who align themselves with them. My tears fall for Ukrainians everywhere. So I made cupcakes yesterday to brighten up a women's day who had lost her mom and sister-in-law recently (not in Ukraine) - all I could do that day. Keep your light shining! It's brilliant.
Hey Lizzie - just wanted to share how much I resonated with your comments on becoming more vulnerable. . .
Maybe it's being a mother of three who has recently had her youngest (18 year old) child move out of home. Maybe it's that at 53 years, menopause is a feature of the horizon. Maybe it's navigating the reality of 29 years of marriage.
Up until recently I too have always been apolitical - but the barrage of injustice and turmoil we as a global community are witnessing and experiencing is also awakening conflicting feelings: indignation and hopelessness, infuriation and overwhelm, the urge to both speak up and sink into utter despair, the simultaneous SNS response of fight and freeze.
Thank you for being a beacon of light in the midst of it all. 🙏💛 leelee
It’s definitely been a lot. The images and the stories in the news weigh so heavily on my soul. My body seems so tightly wound, perhaps it is recoiling against the atrocities? I find myself dreaming of moments where I can truly let go. Being in nature helps, as does moving inward during my practice. It is a balancing act - holding space for people I have never met while caring for those whom I love so deeply. Sending love!
Bless you for sharing your day. I also am going through roller coaster moments, up and down and whipped around. I can stop, take a breath, and go to the center of my brain, and go on.
Oh Lizzie, Thank you for voicing the conflict within my heart. The inhumanity we see occurring and the obvious beauty of nature!
Holding the paradox is so hard. I can be hysterical about the suffering or I can turn away but to stay and witness is my challenge. I appreciate your inspiration to keep trying.
Beautifully expressed. I too have been tempted to skip the practices that will connect me with the real feelings because they are so challenging, tempted by the false refuges of distraction and numbing amid personal and global upheaval. It’s so helpful to have intentional community you can resonate with. I have felt loss in my own intentional community as there has been divergent views in the yoga/wellness world insofar as understanding and interpreting what’s been happening in recent years. I feel a lot of grief as some teachers and friends were lost and I have found you and Judith and Mary to be a port of grounding wisdom and compassion in these storms of delusion and confusion. So thanks for your steady and authentic presence. Yoga is most certainly not all love and light and we need a lot of courage and grit these days. Savasana and meditation are so important and yet their raw simplicity is so hard to be wit. Thanks for presencing that🙏🙏🙏
Having children gives you a stake in the game. It ups the ante. Mama bear is a thing. Mamas see their child in every child...at least the good enough mamas do. <3
I feel helpless not being able to prevent all the suffering around the world. The destruction of people, animals, nature, the earth. It seems too much to contain. So I stopped watching the news every day. Just watching twice a week. This helps me to focus on the good things in life. To step out of the constant worry.
Tovah Delmont, Thanks for your thoughts and words today. It resonates with my heart and soul. I am 81,a yoga teacher and was a psychotherapist practicing with trauma, abuse and dissociation. I try not to watch the news as it’s so upset. I use all the resources I know and send out healing loving thoughts for the people of Ukraine and the world🙏🧘♂️💕
Every day I feel happy yet angry about the Russian invasion, safe then sad that Ukrainians lives are being destroyed, powerless yet energetic to help change the world. I want no more predators in women's lives, in children's lives, in the lives of citizens in entire countries. Yes, 'F'ing bombs, 'F'ing Putin and all those who align themselves with them. My tears fall for Ukrainians everywhere. So I made cupcakes yesterday to brighten up a women's day who had lost her mom and sister-in-law recently (not in Ukraine) - all I could do that day. Keep your light shining! It's brilliant.
Leelee Donoghoe
Hey Lizzie - just wanted to share how much I resonated with your comments on becoming more vulnerable. . .
Maybe it's being a mother of three who has recently had her youngest (18 year old) child move out of home. Maybe it's that at 53 years, menopause is a feature of the horizon. Maybe it's navigating the reality of 29 years of marriage.
Up until recently I too have always been apolitical - but the barrage of injustice and turmoil we as a global community are witnessing and experiencing is also awakening conflicting feelings: indignation and hopelessness, infuriation and overwhelm, the urge to both speak up and sink into utter despair, the simultaneous SNS response of fight and freeze.
Thank you for being a beacon of light in the midst of it all. 🙏💛 leelee
It’s definitely been a lot. The images and the stories in the news weigh so heavily on my soul. My body seems so tightly wound, perhaps it is recoiling against the atrocities? I find myself dreaming of moments where I can truly let go. Being in nature helps, as does moving inward during my practice. It is a balancing act - holding space for people I have never met while caring for those whom I love so deeply. Sending love!
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Dear Lizzie
Bless you for sharing your day. I also am going through roller coaster moments, up and down and whipped around. I can stop, take a breath, and go to the center of my brain, and go on.
Gratitude and love to and Judith as always.
Love you too sweet soul!
Thanks for sharing! So real! Love you!
Oh Lizzie, Thank you for voicing the conflict within my heart. The inhumanity we see occurring and the obvious beauty of nature!
Holding the paradox is so hard. I can be hysterical about the suffering or I can turn away but to stay and witness is my challenge. I appreciate your inspiration to keep trying.
Karen
What is to give light must endure burning. Victor E. Frankl.
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Beautifully expressed. I too have been tempted to skip the practices that will connect me with the real feelings because they are so challenging, tempted by the false refuges of distraction and numbing amid personal and global upheaval. It’s so helpful to have intentional community you can resonate with. I have felt loss in my own intentional community as there has been divergent views in the yoga/wellness world insofar as understanding and interpreting what’s been happening in recent years. I feel a lot of grief as some teachers and friends were lost and I have found you and Judith and Mary to be a port of grounding wisdom and compassion in these storms of delusion and confusion. So thanks for your steady and authentic presence. Yoga is most certainly not all love and light and we need a lot of courage and grit these days. Savasana and meditation are so important and yet their raw simplicity is so hard to be wit. Thanks for presencing that🙏🙏🙏
Having children gives you a stake in the game. It ups the ante. Mama bear is a thing. Mamas see their child in every child...at least the good enough mamas do. <3
Absolutely, the Mama bear fierce energy is real!
I feel helpless not being able to prevent all the suffering around the world. The destruction of people, animals, nature, the earth. It seems too much to contain. So I stopped watching the news every day. Just watching twice a week. This helps me to focus on the good things in life. To step out of the constant worry.
I'm feeling the same, Corine...