A Million Leaves
This spring I prioritised 3 things, then only got 1 done
I went away on holiday in July, and since my return have slid, fallen, been driven from issue to issue in home, family and business. After the holiday I wanted to write to you about how much wellness came from a simple act of unplugging from the digital world while we did a river trip on the Salmon River- it was incredible!
In the interim I'd been down to Auckland 3 times, Whangarei at least 6 and as far as Nelson once for a funeral. I got to sit in the student seat again and finished a Boatmaster's Course. Our daughter had been sailing 6 of the 7 weekends in Auckland. The odd one out she went to a sailing camp at Urupukapuka in the Bay of Islands. See a theme?
Sensing I wasn't quite busy enough I did a stretch of "manic gardening" so that I could get my seedlings in the ground before the got pinched feet in their porch punnets. For all my effort I pinched a nerve leading to my shoulder. I would have to continue on my trips and work down a chicken wing. I managed to get back to a chiropractor I trusted, had treatment and pushed onwards.
I'm telling you this because I made a promise to be myself when I write
It's all good to write treatises on managing the flow and breathing and loving self-care. Those really, really are the things I believe in and practice daily (throughout those hectic weeks, I still did my morning practices at times modified for one arm). But if I always just write when I'm all yoga mystical, then you get an impression that I'm always yoga mama, which isn't fair. It's a social media lie.
I'm making peace with being fabulously, nearly manically out of hand creating and responding. Because I know I am massively supported in a thousand ways to be ok. And I know that's just this phase.
Spring Time can be like this. A Million Leaves - All at Once
Have you watched an oak tree re-leaf in the springtime? It is the most spectacular event. In the space of just a few days, the entire tree buds and opens-expansion on all fronts, improbable, yet clearly capable.
So if you are feeling a bit like that right now, kind of million leaves all at once, lean into it, keep expanding, keep showing up, keep breathing, keep laughing. You are glorious.
Have a great spring, Oak Tree, Bex
