Life is a Season
When I first started this platform I was in a different season of life. The inspiration first came to me during the COVID-19 lockdown where life was suddenly on pause. I experienced a great deal of loss. My 9 year relationship had ended after two miscarriages, and my grandmother passed away. I felt nervous and uncertain about the course of my life, and suffered racing heart palpitations 24 hours a day which saw me diagnosed with stress induced anxiety. My GP advised the right path for me was to find a way to calm my natural state of being, and so I turned to meditation.
Let me tell you, I knew very little about meditation. Aside from the savasana at the end of a yoga class, and after watching one too many outdated, daggy and unrelatable YouTube clips, I decided the only way I would truly overcome this anxiety would be to learn the fundamentals of meditation and practise it daily. So, I enrolled in a meditation teacher training certification, and soon after noticing the changes in my well being and daily life, I knew I had to share this with others.
For meditation is, as they say, truly life changing.
A New Season
Nothing and no one prepared me mentally for the overnight transition into pregnancy.
Although I was overjoyed and grateful with the news of falling pregnant, what I didn’t expect to hit me so hard was the reality that life as I knew it had changed. The life I had created at 38 years of age which I deeply enjoyed (and got very used to) came to a speeding halt.
I missed the smell of a sauna, the soothing heat of a magnesium spa and the post-hot pilates high. The change in diet was hard to swallow. Date nights had a new look and feel, and so did the things my partner and I loved doing together.
I went in blind, and I needed support and comfort in the early stages of keeping life’s biggest secret. A place where I could feel seen and heard without coming across ungrateful or being judged. I needed to feel calm as I navigated pregnancy so I could step into this new season of life feeling empowered with ease, and allow the space to learn to fall in love with this new season of life.