With tiny bodies and little awareness, we’re tossed into this human phase of our journey and expected to navigate this thing called life. It’s a gorgeous mess, isn’t it? Aren’t we? One moment things are exactly as we’ve planned, the next what we’ve so carefully curated rains around us in […]
Amy Carroll
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As products of our society, we are trained to accept the struggle for stability as a natural byproduct of life. We learn from an early age that being stable comes from the vigilant effort of resisting what’s happening externally. This is a teaching that begins at birth. We’re loud, our […]
There comes a moment on every journey where striving gives way to stillness, where doing softens into being. Where the ego loosens its bony grip, and a deeper understanding of the interconnected web that surrounds us, begins to emerge. This is the essence of surrender, and surrender is a gateway […]
Right now, everything is possible. Right now, we exist exactly as we should be. Right now, in this single moment, we can take a breath, be still and reflect as we are. Right now, what we are is enough. Right now, we can sit at the sill of our own […]
We are living in a challenging, perhaps pivotal, time; moments of change usually are. Yet in the midst of global unrest, we still have to exist. We have to work, cook dinner, make our kids feel safe, vacuum. The anxiety of this juxtaposition can ravage us with uncertainty, or with […]
I had a plan for this week’s post, and then in the way that life does, I was taken in a completely different direction. With the morning sunlight dappling my keyboard, and steaming coffee in hand, I’m quiet enough to dig into the heartache of loss. I use the term […]
At the foot of worship’s mountain, we stumble upon prayers/contemplations/meditations and the energetic conflict of resistance. As humans on this plane, armed with the knowledge that growth and change isn’t easy, we often unwittingly step into being avid disruptors of our own progress – who have the best intentions of […]
Guided by our last posts engagements, let’s talk about the idea that what we don’t change we choose. Consider this sentiment, challenging as it is true: No matter our circumstances, life is still a series of choices. As some life-choice series seem harder than others, there is no way to equalize external […]
I consider myself called to post on a subject when I’ve had more than a few opportunities to discuss it in a short period of time. Collective energy and all that. So in this year of nine and the snake, where we collectively shed old skin, let’s take a dive […]
So many questions from the last short post. Here, I will answer as best I can in the ways that make sense to me. What does Cyclical being mean? There are so many beliefs and systems to find that speak to us. I encourage you to look for them. For […]