When one sentence really gets you.
Thank you
for the substack header you send out today: Hiding is Exhausting. I actually exhaled when I read it. I have been in a bit of a personally crafted reconfirmation, but apparently my subconscious has broken the fourth wall, because the metaphors and messages are not even vaguely hidden, and thank goodness. Because as Vanja says, it’s exhausting.Have you tuned into the Rebirth podcast? Season 8 started a few weeks ago (I love a microphone) and I am letting the season thread together. Episodes stand alone, but weave. Just look at the titles:
Magnetize and Align
Reclaim your Power
Lean into Your Vision
and our first guest episode of the Season aired today: Give Yourself Permission with Cortney McDermott is who is a delightful guest and wrote a book of the episode’s title.
You know why so much stuff is about those power verbs? because we are tired, and we’re tired of hiding and it’s like a coffee at 4pm, we keep on keeping on, unless we pause and do it differently — unless we consciously create a new story or a new day.
Then we realize that magnetism is an internal cultivation, so it is more a process of becoming by relaxing and releasing what is causing tension (I talk about this in next week’s mini-episode). Reclaiming your power can sound like push, until we realize if we reclaimed our boundaries, we’d reclaim our power. If we thought that what we wanted was viable and worthwhile..instead of the phrasing of “you know I’d love to but ——” and that is why the vision piece becomes so important. I get really honest in that episode: I think I had misplaced my vision. I thought the due date had expired, but not anymore. Now, I see the placement of right timing and the fruition of regeneration. I am beginning to see the seasons and stages that can come upon us, and that those happen in natural rhythm. Some dreams take as long as it does for us to relax and believe in them.
There was a phrase that Cortney McDermott used toward the last half of the podcast. She invites listeners to play over perform. Go ahead and scroll back up to the cover photo here of that beautiful child full of wonder and play. There is so much available when we play. When we are aligned the most serious work can feed us; when we are out of alignment mundane tasks can feel like they are draining our very essence. It’s all about the energy that is given and received.
Rather than spout answers, I am threading questions. I am curious if it is easier to switch the question from what am I supposed do, to what does my Soul want me to do? Does that track; does the tonality shift for you in that question? Does the idea of magnetism, reclamation, vision and permission all switch when it’s not the brain we are asking but the essence of our being? These are my questions as September begins the gentle turn inward.
We start to Write the Year September 21st together, subscribe for the year and we’ll use this cozy corner of Substack to:
Journal seasonal contemplations, rooted in nature, and nodding toward’s the astrology
Have a place to create a rhythm of contemplation so we can notice what we might otherwise be too overstimulated or exhausted to see and appreciate
Listen to our Selves
Create for the sake of inherent beauty and clarity
I’ll leave you with a snippet from Vanja Vukelic’s writing because we all need less unnecessary exhaustion and more play.
until soon -
Kate
ps. If you head over to her page — you can grab one of her journals for Write the Year.