In this Podcast, Heather guides you through an extended inquiry to review, release, and honor 2023. You will take a moment for each month to acknowledge its challenges and blessings. Once 2023 has been put behind us, we can open up with intentions to receive what most matches us in our highest potential in the upcoming year. This session includes teachings from Heather, self-inquiry exercises, and a short meditation.

Quotes:

"Take down all your troubles and wrap up your regret, 

Tie them to the rays of light the sun sheds as it sets.

Whisper all that was to fleeting seconds as they pass,

But hold into your hope for something new is here at last.Beg your own forgiveness and grant it in one breath,

Lay the year down softly as it waits to face its death.

Then sit with eyes turned skyward as the night-time comes alive, 

All that's been is over and a new year has arrived."

-Erin Hansen

“Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better, it’s about befriending who we are." – Ani Pema Chodron

For a New Beginning

In out of the way places of the heart,

Where your thoughts never think to wander

This beginning has been quietly forming,

Waiting until you were ready to emerge.

For a long time it has watched your desire,

Feeling the emptiness grow inside you

Noticing how you willed yourself on,

Still unable to leave what you had outgrown.

It watched you play with the seduction of safety

And the grey promises that sameness whispered,

Heard the waves of turmoil rise and relent,

Wondered would you always live like this.

Then the delight, when your courage kindled,

And out you stepped onto new ground,

Your eyes young again with energy and dream,

A path of plenitude opening before you.

Though your destination is not clear,

You can trust the promise of this opening;

Unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning

That is one with your life’s desire.

Awaken your spirit to adventure

Hold nothing back, learn to find ease in risk

Soon you will be home in a new rhythm

For your soul senses the world that awaits you.

-John O’Donahue