March Moon Reflections
Letting go & making space
You may wonder what a picture of my breakfast has to do with the moon and reflections but stay with me - it isn’t as tenuous as you might think.
At the start of this week we had the beautiful full moon in Libra, she was spectacular. I even stopped my car on the back road to take a photo.
The lovely Kirsty Gallagher called this moon an opportunity to find equilibrium between who you are and who you are becoming, which resonated so deeply.
So, obviously, I had a journal about the bits of the version of me that were serving me and the bits that no longer were. Something I’ve found really helpful for journaling is using a voice to text app as all of my thoughts come to me when I’m in the car! Getting it straight out of my head as a stream of consciousness before re-reading and making sense of some of the very garbled sentences.
It was such a helpful exercise that can be performed at any time, not just at the full moon, and one that I use a lot in coaching. It allows us to consider the bits of us that are thriving, the bits that feel sticky or stuck, the bits that don’t serve us and everything in between.
It also gives us a chance to step back and consider if we’re living in alignment with our values. Something I’ve talked about in the post below.
Behind all of the 'stuff'
I was getting more wood in to keep cosy this afternoon and walking back I noticed this skeleton leaf. It stuck me that it can be so easy to miss these miracles of nature as we go about through our day. It also jolted a question to mind, a question of ‘what is left when all the stuff goes away?’ Not in a morbid way, more in a curious way.
So what, I hear you cry, does a nice breakfast have to do with any of that?
One of my big values is sustainability and I mean that in all of it’s guises! Sustaining my energy levels & mood is part of this value and having a breakfast that fills me with joy is something that helps me align with that value. Historically, I’ve been crap at eating breakfast, surviving on black coffee until lunchtime and then wondering why I feel stressed. So, after reading Fast Like a Girl * I realised I probably wasn’t doing my body any favours at all (yes, I know it’s pretty obvious!). As with all wellness things, I took the parts that resonated and quickly discarded things that did not (I will not be wearing a blood sugar monitor thank you), in order to experiment with fasting with my hormone cycle. A key part of this is actually not fasting for a hefty section of your cycle - the bit that I struggle with the most. So in order of this change to be sustainable (there’s that word again), I need to make it enjoyable.
This week, I’ve essentially coached myself in the way that I coach clients in The Cusp, I’ve squeezed around 3 months worth of exploration into a week and will continue to dip in and out of these practices because they are so effective.
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Right, I’m off to lead a Natural Mindfulness Walk now, the sun is shining and I’m so glad to be able to get outside for some fresh air.
Enjoy your Wednesday xx