On Fear (and feeling it)

We don't know how to feel fear in a way that allows us to move through what's keeping us locked in immobility and resistance. We either come to fear it, or we avoid feeling it, or we are overwhelmed by our fear and the stories that wed us to that experience. What happens when we can just bear compassionate witness to the fear? Like removing a boulder from a stream, we are released into the flow of life. We can learn to be with fear in a contained and balanced way, and have access to more freedom and joy.

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Parenting can lead us to a threshold in life we hadn’t known before. We're bringing into the parenting dynamic with our kids the momentum of our previous experiences - our resources and resilience, as well as our disconnection and disembodiment due to trauma (individual, familial, cultural, historical & intergenerational).  Beyond the challenges we face to parent in ways we may not have been parented, there is a deep love for our children that wants to be expressed and known in presence with them. There's also a yearning in us to experience that deep love ourselves; to feel our power and to live authentically, just as we yearn to protect that for our kids, too. The urgency to heal what's still alive within us might come up with a force because of them, and yet it's ultimately a reclamation of our life force, vitality, joy, connection and creativity we're most hungry for. It’s sometimes a desire bold as love that fuels our courage to meet what we fear to face.