When does your self care need a re-vamp?

A couple of really good things happened on Midsummer. I went back to art class after several months and I had my first shamanic healing in a year and a half. I feel more like myself again and it feels good. So good.

Yes, it was way too long to go without this type of work. (Especially as a practitioner – we need our own medicine to heal…’healer heal thyself’ only goes so far).

Why did I go this long without the very medicine that I frequently provide for others? Good question! Well, my main shamanic teacher stopped doing one-on-one sessions about a year and a half ago, and when our work ended, I thought it must have meant some type of graduation. After all, I made it through a divorce and pandemic so things certainly wouldn’t be as heavy, would they?

Besides, I do PLENTY of other healing work, spiritual, and self-care practices, periodic meditation retreats, and surely living a shamanic lifestyle would suffice.

In 20-20 hindsight, without even realizing it – I’d gotten to a place of ‘damage control’ – one I’m very familiar with getting people out of. Clearly I had shamanic healing needs that I wasn’t owning. (Lesson learned!)

The truth is we all have our own individual self-care needs: physical, energetic, spiritual, and emotional. AND the tricky thing is that our self-care needs can change.

Listening to the shamanic healer rattle as I lay on the couch, kitty girl perched next to me, we both went extremely deep and I could feel the layers of heaviness just lifting and lifting up to the sky – which I thought was so cool because this is exactly what I feel as I work on other people.

What I have found is the clearer I am, the more I am able to show up in this crazy world at this wild time. Sunday I did my first in person group sound healing in my office and it went really well. I know the work I received a couple days prior set the stage for me to show up in a new way.

Do you have any new needs that you’re ready to explore?