I hope that you open yourself to receive + give grace + love today + always, even when your heart feels heavy

Winter Writing Garden Week 6

Jan 12, 2025

Admiring art with my sister at the Cummer Museum in Jacksonville this December. I find hummingbirds so very graceful.

Friends, I have been offline — processing.

Knowing that you are compassionate people, I’m sure that you can relate.

Have the recent days felt particularly heavy? Particularly emotionally dense and deep? Particularly fertile for deep feeling?

Yes, yes, yes.

It’s time for an energetic check in, a temperature check

How is your start to January going? How is your energy?

Honestly, my energy has been lower than usual this week.

I had to slow down this week, and I am giving myself grace through that. I am seeking balance between action and rest. Balance between doing and being. Balance between caring, bleeding-heart energy, and protection and healthy self-recovery. I feel a call to balance in all things this week—in my family life and routines, in my interactions with others, on the larger scale as I see global interactions playing out, and balance especially in regard to our climate.

Many times my heart has gone out to families and individuals across the country who have lost so much in the fires this week. My heart continues to go out to people across the world who are experiencing the ravages of war. My heart has also gone out to my own family members experiencing significant change this week.

If feel that there is too much loss in this world….

And how do we cope with that?

We hold to hope.

I am reminded of this. Hope and love. Hope and love. It is like a new mantra for me.

This time is a call to grace

This time is also a call to grace. If you need more rest, more time, more pauses before responding, you have the choice to take it. Give yourself that grace.

I needed more rest this week. I gave myself grace, understanding that it is natural.

I felt a depth of emotions again this week that felt supernatural — like more than myself, you know what I mean? I know y’all feel this too.

If you are emotionally sensitive, you may be tapped into the collective energy that is in the air now. The collective energy of loss, of pain, of memory, of survival, of fatigue, and worry.

Do not crazy-make yourself. You are feeling this for yourself, and perhaps for the collective. You are transmuting this energy. Use your power to transmute negative energy into positive— through your body, mind, and spirit.

Process, transmute, FEEL, give grace.

This is a reminder that we are all called to heal and support one another. This is a reminder to take care of yourself, so that you can better take care of others.

Protect yourself and nurture your nervous system. Ground down in your body and stay in your spirit. I send you love. 💗

Please let me know if there’s any way I can send support to you. 💕

I am so grateful for the support of family and friends, and especially my husband who helped me and cared for me this week as I processed these heavy emotions.

Know too, this weekend things shifted in a positive motion. Things turned for the better, and things will not remain as they were.

I felt I stepped out of a need to be always “on time” today, instead of I felt more in time and with time today. I released more perfectionism. I welcome a balance between structure and surrender.

I hope that you take this as a sign of hope. I hope that you open yourself to receive and give so much grace + so much love today and always, even when your heart feels heavy.💗

I know it has been a heavy week, but know that it is changing and shifting for the better. I felt a shift yesterday, did you feel it too? 💖

Winter Writing Garden Week 6: January 12–January 18, 2025

This week, let your focus deepen as you refine your ideas and align them with your creative goals.

Day 36, January 12 (Sunday): Write 3 pages
- Soil/Earth Inspiration: Write about something or someone that keeps you grounded.
Day 37, January 13 (Monday): Write 4 pages
- Water Inspiration: Explore the theme of transformation through water—literal or metaphorical.
Day 38, January 14 (Tuesday): Write 3 pages
- Air Inspiration: Reflect on a conversation that changed your perspective.
Day 39, January 15 (Wednesday): Write 4 pages
- Sunlight Inspiration: Write about a time when hope illuminated a difficult path.
Day 40, January 16 (Thursday): Write 3 pages
- Soil/Earth Inspiration: Describe a landscape that feels like home to you.
Day 41, January 17 (Friday): Write 4 pages
- Water Inspiration: Reflect on how emotions move through you like waves.
Day 42, January 18 (Saturday): Creative Rest Day
- Inspiration: Take a walk and gather inspiration from the natural world.