🔸Sometimes you have to take steps back in order to move forward. 🔸

I'm not sure where I first heard that, but it's been my mantra for the past 9 months. If you are stuck, hurting, fed up, lost, feeling hopeless and tired of trying to make it work, I feel you. 🙏🏻 It sucks.
But just because you feel the heaviness does not mean you are weak. Heaviness leads to healing. And healing requires bravery and strength. You are at the cusp of transformation, my friend. Do not be scared to let go. Let the tears of vulnerability fall. Let the walls down. Let your heart break open and feel everything. No matter how long it takes.

I'm grateful for all my friends and family who held space for me to do just that. No judgement. Just unconditional, pure love. 💛 Let's remember that everyone is going through something. Let's open our hurts and minds and allow more vulnerability to shine. 🌟

I have many favorite moments from my time on the Appalachian Trail. However, this is the one that I daydream about most. It was around 4:30am in the Maine wilderness. I was hiking alone, still waking up, when this sunrise stopped me in my tracks. For a moment I swear I could feel everything more intensely. As if my feet grew roots and wrapped me around the boulder that was beneath me. I was captivated by the birds, the sway of the top of the trees, the wind, the warmth, the energy that was present. Everything was glowing and I was the only one around to experience it. "This is Trail Magic," I remember thinking. "This is supernatural. This is what inspires great art. This is a gift. This is the work of my creator. This is exactly what people are missing." I carried that very still, quiet moment with me all day. And now whenever I need peace, I journey back to this time of wild, magical connectedness. Mmmmmm. Such. Good. Medicine. 🌿🐦��🐿🌞#thewandertrees

This piece from Elle Luna is what it's all about, folks. It's easy to keep avoiding, masking, ignoring and suppressing all the things we don't want to feel in the moment. But if we don't allow ourselves to move through them, all sorts of things get stuck in our bodies. These emotions that we neglect to feel causes blocks, illness and more problems. This keeps us from doing what we were put on this earth to do! And we just can't accept that. Give yourself and others permission to feel- to cry, to be angry, to be sad, to be blissfully happy.
Feel it. Feel all of it.