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Hello everyone, In October my husband and I (and our wider community) welcomed a little baby girl into the world and giving birth to her was an extraordinary experience. Hard, natural, wondrous, challenging, messy, real and deeply moving. For anyone who knows me and has worked with me, you may know that birth has been a deeply held metaphor for me in my life and work as an integral development coach. I have believed in the contraction and expansion and subsequent creation that comes from our natural human (developmental) moves for a long time. And now I have experienced the actual physiology of this metaphor in my life, I can feel it even more strongly. From the contraction comes beauty. From the relaxation comes the energy for what’s next. From the rest comes fire. The body knows exactly what is to be done. Birth holds such deep wisdom for us all and I am writing this newsletter in a state of invitation - for myself and you also - to enquire I to what’s labouring in us to be born today, at this time of possibility where rest is around the corner with whatever we are doing for the holiday time ahead? It’s important to hold close the idea that with the birth or something new, what’s not longer needed has to be let go of. Identities shift when things get born. A new creation rearranges things. Nothing will be the same again when what’s truly new comes to be real and manifest. So I have a prayer for us at this festive time and here goes: May I gracefully listen for and accept the invitations from my whispering heart, May I willingly embrace the discomfort of letting go when newness calls, May I trust the ground of being to support my shifting identity, May I faithfully step forward into the unknown that is unfolding, And may I be held as I venture forth and bring new life into the world.
I wish you a warm and hearty December and everyone at Thirdspace sends their love and best wishes for the new year of 2020!
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