Safe

In front of this new and scary unknown, it's time to be silent. 

How it feels in the body, can grip such a firm hold.

It can eat us alive, all of our courage, little by little.

We’re left with a pain that has no cure, we believe.

Yet in the midst of the fear if we choose silence, and breathe…

What could happen?

If we find a place to feel safe, while the fear is still present?

Letting our body feel safe in front of the possibility of us still proceeding with what frightens us.

If we give fear a face, what does it look like?

How does the name of it sound in our ears when we say it out loud in a company that feels like home.

That cold grip fading from our shoulders.

Those flames of agony easing away from our stomach.

I had that moment one day this Winter.

I was resting alone in sauna, the place where so many times before the clarity just came.

Old fears were washed away like the thrown water vaporizing away from the hot stones.

I saw a simple glimpse of what I could do.

Something in a seed form.

A set of baby steps.

No pressure with a radiant glimmer of hope in the horizon.

With grace and peace yet firm courage.

For the first time.

What is that safe space for you?

Will you rest there in silence while the fear is around?

Just breathing.

Love,

Pia