Birthing a New Earth Together

​How is everyone doing out there?  I personally have been fluctuating through moments of high highs (where I see the incredible possibility embedded in these times) and low lows (days where I am exhausted, emotional, frustrated and lacking in strength and hope).

Many of us sensitive souls have always known, though, on a soul-level that the current culture we're swimming in -- based on fear, control and dominance over others, ourselves and the Earth -- is not sustainable. 

That while it may feel predictable, just like that nightly beer or five, it's hurting and harming us individually and collectively.

I feel so grateful that many people are waking up to this truth: for we cannot get better until we admit that we are sick.

It reminds me of the moment when I realized that the co-dependent, toxic world I created with my long-time ex was going to kill me if I stayed.  That the patterns that were unconsciously running us made us both miserable, sick and depressed.

As this truth became apparently clear one night at the bar with my girlfriends, I felt incredibly sad, scared and EXCITED. 

Could there be a different way? 

Could I create something NEW? 

Could there possibly be LIFE after this unnerving death?

Miraculously meeting and marrying my soulmate Shawn, birthing two incredible children with him and successfully working my dream career are proof that YES, NEW life, in fact, IS POSSIBLE.

But before I could get here, I had to go through the grueling death process first, letting go of the comfortable yet lethal patterns that had been my "normal" for so long.  As I walked through this personal crucifixion, I had to watch everything I once identified with fade: old friends, old habits, my old apartment, my free dry-cleaning service (a handy benefit of this partnership ;)), and my status as this man's partner.

While it was painful and sad and emotionally exhausting, from the other side, I can tell you, as my mother once assured me, that it was SO worth it.

Through it I became so clear on what I DID NOT want, so that I could start to awaken to WHAT I DID WANT which was partnership, honesty, respect, gentleness, courage, and connection.

I got SO SO clear on what this potential future partner would be like that I refused to settle for anything less than him.  Bad date after bad date could not get me down because I knew, for certain, that a new partner was on his way.  My mind was made up. 

And so, God, in Her infinite creative wisdom said, "YEEEEEES! That's what I'm talking about" as She got to work on birthing him into Being and miraculously dropping him on my path.

What if this time we are in is the perfect opportunity BREAK UP with our past? 

To move through all the big emotions that come with the break-up FIRST, helping us each get clear on all that we DO NOT WANT so that, together, we can get clear on what WE DO WANT?

What if, together, we are beginning to imagine that there could be a different way that we had originally considered possible? 

That we're not POWERLESS, but POWERFUL midwives of this SOMETHING ELSE we've always wanted?

This is the power of the yoga practice: giving us the tools to calm, harness and connect with the creative power of our minds, bodies and Souls so that EACH of us become conscious co-creators of a new reality instead of being victims, bystanders, and haters just trying to scoot through life without ever really living.