I spent my weekend getting lost + found in the trees.

These trails have taught me a lot in these past few weeks, inviting me closer to myself. Each morning in the stillness of the rising sun I felt a sense of return. A shift from grasp to embody. External to internal. The sunrise reminding me of the deeper invitation here; inviting ourselves to experience love just because.

That love is not something we must earn or only receive when ___.

Love is not meant to be conditional.

Instead it is our natural state of being. The one we’re born worthy of giving + receiving.

This year I learned to let myself be. A deep journey of learning to love myself through the practice of being. Outside of the constructs of anything else, being for beings sake. Meeting myself in a space of honouring + deepening the relationship I have for myself outside of anything obtained.

Outside of what I do. Outside of where I am. Outside of what I have. The titles I hold, accomplishments + desires for my future.

If this this year has taught me anything, it’s how to be me when all else is stripped away.

Who am I outside of everything else. That the doing, is in the being. It's about how we move through the world. To build the capacity to be all of us + live from that place, worthy of it’s beauty just because we are.

I understand deeply that unpacking the constructs of ‘who am I outside of my work’ is an intertwined, complex, intergenerational relationship one I know oh so well + so deep. One that I have found myself engulfed in for a majority of my life. The hooks I have pulled out + the wounds underneath I have needed to tend to.To not outsource my safety or my worth.

These hooks run deep. We’ve been raised in a society that has conditioned us to believe that our worth exists outside of ourselves. Here we are easier to control, manipulate + have our power taken away.

We are here to build a new template. It begins with reclaiming our innate worth. To create a culture of care, embodied enoughness + ecosystem where nobody gets left behind, we must remember that the most powerful place we can be is in our bodies.

And challenge anything that teaches us otherwise.