Just wanted to thank you all for the beautiful explorations and sharings. Some here have such a gift for articulation and poetry...I have loved sharing in your experiences.

Thank you to Open for taking the time to comment on our personal circumstances and thank you Eddie for your warm and encouraging words.

Open you dropped in the word assertiveness and yes this is the more solid energy that is wanting to express and whooooa is there a massive resistance to this way of being. Incredible how aversions to ways of being create exactly what we are trying to avoid. This stepping through the fire of my disowned aspects is particularly challenging.... Though I am getting far more use to the heat and recognize it more as the cue to slow down and get super present with what is happening...it also takes a letting go of need to perform or respond within a particular time frame ... When I stay open within the moment of fire and just allow the burn, the intensity of it all, then there is a clarity within the chaos. I have felt for a while that there is a strong, resilience here but it's felt unembodied, yet totally part of me.

So today I drew a garden and felt deep within my heart what is a seed now waiting to emerge.... I feel there are seeds of courage and self acceptance, solar energy of passion and action that want to pop through the surface. Excited to continue to share and grow with this beautiful community.

Will be tuning in for the new Openhand journal - much love to you all! Jen