Healing Spaces

I am really excited to share that I have moved to a new healing space for my 1-on-1 healing work. It is so beautiful and really feels like coming home. I held a ritual for myself and the community of those I do 1-on-1 work with to say goodbye to Cedar, our old space, and say hello to our new space (the name of which is still being decided - Cedar 2.0, for now). It was such an honor to get to share that experience with the people who have been coming to that other space for healing. This experience, this process of transition and ritual, helped me more fully realize how deeply this space - Cedar - has held me and allowed me to heal from the traumas and injury of the medical system.

I was able to really connect to the impact that the space we are in for our medical experiences, our healing experiences matters. I have chosen to put a lot of intention into how my spaces are created, built, and shared. Even when we don’t come with this intention in creating spaces, there is impact.

Invite your own healing….

I’d like to invite you to pause and reflect on the last time you went into a medical environment. It may be that your last medical experience was with me, in MY space, and so that could be different than the person whose last experience was in a “typical” Western medical space. 

Either way, whatever the impact, I’d like to invite you to pause…

take a deep breath…

feel your feet on the ground or floor… 

Then, if it feels supportive to do so, SHAKE

                and let out any “blaaaahhh!” or maybe joyful noise,

                                   depending on what came up when you reflected on the space.

Just letting that experience go.

Then, I’d like to invite you to pause again

and reflect on a space that felt healing for you.

Maybe it WAS a medical environment. Maybe it was another type of healing practitioner. Maybe it was taking a walk in the trees. Maybe it was sitting by the ocean.

Whatever felt and feels healing to you.

Noticing your surroundings, noticing what is under your feet in that space. Noticing the space, the colors, the furniture, the size, the access to nature. Reflecting on how that felt.

And allowing for a slow, integrating breath in your own time that helps you connect to the healing of the space that you were held in at that time.