Navigating life seasons and cycles.
A few years back I was a guest on the ‘Reawakening Love & Power’ podcast with Carol Anne - it’s a great episode and very much as relevant now as it was back then. Carol’s podcast is a delight, so if you’re looking for a good one to binge listen to, maybe give this a go :)
Here’s what Carol shares about the episode:
There are seasons for rest and seasons for activity, times when new things are coming to life and times when old things are falling away. In this episode, my friend Ellen May- and I talk about how to navigate cycles and the power of aligning yourself to the way of the season you’re in. Listening to Ellen is to receive permission to be where you are, and to sink deeper into your own bones and your own magic.
Ellen and I both live in Australia, where the weather is transitioning into autumn and the descent into winter, but we also talk about how autumn and winter apply to societal changes we’re experiencing right now with isolation measures and staying at home.
Our conversation includes:
Seasons and cycles as a framework for understanding energy and life
The relevance of seasons to life experiences, menstrual cycles, healing, and growth
What nature shows us about seasons and cycles, and how it reminds us that we are nature
How to recognise which season you’re in, and how you can get stuck in a particular season
How winter can be particularly challenging, how to recognise the value it offers and start to embrace it
Our personal struggles with trying to “do” surrender
Ellen May is an art therapist, a coach trained to work with sexuality, love and relationships, and is trained in somatic experiencing.
Recently she asked Facebook for three words to describe her, and the top result was overwhelmingly ‘creative’, closely followed by variations on ‘kind/ compassionate/ gentle’, and variations of ‘magical/ adventurous and wise’. She brings creativity, kindness, magic and wisdom to everything she does in this grand adventure called life.
She runs workshops and works 1:1 with clients, helping them to draw their own maps to have their dreams be made real in this world. She holds gentle, permissive and highly trauma aware space for seekers who know deep in their bones that there’s more to life than what they’re experiencing, and she helps them find it.
She’s on her own grand adventure to find out what it means to be human, and how to have her life feel like a magical fairy tale of wonder and delight in the deep dark woods.