There are days when grief rises like a tide—gentle at first, then crashing through everything, wave after wave. I had one of those days recently. The kind where you cry all day, and it’s not just about one thing… it’s about everything.

Grief, old emotions, ancestral ache, the deep soul-exhaustion of being human.

And somewhere in the middle of all that—I found myself in conversation with Spirit.

It went like this:

My Conversation with Spirit About Crying

Spirit: “I’m sorry, but sometimes you have to.”

Me, feeling a little sassy: “Why do we have to? Why don’t you?”  (I already knew the answer to this before the question even left my mouth.) 

Spirit: “We don’t carry the emotions that you do. But we see what they do to the human body. And we have tools to help move them out.”

Me: (Frustrated) “How do you have the tools and we don’t, if you don’t even have the emotions we do?”

Spirit:
“Because we’ve gathered them across all our lifetimes.
We work as a One. We pool the wisdo...

I absolutely adore that I pulled the Love & Nurture Your Body card today. Such perfect timing, as I was just going through the Self-Love, Body-Love section for the Intro to Shadow Work course. And as I was going through that section, I was thinking to myself, “This topic is a really big and important deal.”

Our intuition, our signals, our truths, our signs of alignment- those are felt within the body. If we are disconnected, ashamed of, and not really occupying our body, how many intuitive messages are we missing?

Not only that, but how many things do we put in our shadows when it comes to our body?
Shame, embarrassment, judgment, negative talk, hiding, being uncomfortable, disappointment, dissatisfaction…and this list could go on.

One of the most expansive things I was taught throughout my entire journey were the tools and support to love myself and my body again. It did not happen overnight, and it’s a relationship I nurture and grow each and every day. And some days I might just...