Hello lovely one, Hello Reader,

As I’m sitting here wondering what it is I’m really doing as I embark on a new chapter in my life and who my audience really is ? I naturally find myself reflecting on all of my hairdressing years.
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Many many hours of stories.

It was only yesterday when a client of mine said to me Lija , I think what you’re really helping people with is grief.

What an interesting theory I thought, I didn’t dismiss this theory.

I have been studying with morning Altars for the last year and although grief isn’t the main topic of our learning it almost certainly weaves its way through most of our teaching. So I have become familiar with sitting in grief’s presence.

I think grief shows up every day in our lives. I think if we made time for grief, our heads would maybe feel less full.

What is grief?

When you look up the word grief, it means heavy, weighty oppressive. Some of us think only of grief as loss, meaning death, but there are many forms of loss. loss of a job, loss of a relationship, loss of ourselves, loss of our youth.

I think making time to grieve our losses could make a huge difference to how we then choose to live our lives. This doesn’t have to be a gigantic monumental workload.

What if it took only a few minutes a day?

What if you your grieving ,and you didn’t even know it and still you made time.

I know one of the perfect ways to grieve is to observe nature. Before our own eyes it shows us change resilience, beginnings, endings. It shows us that it’s in constant Flo.

What if we engage with nature but instead of just admiring, what if we leaned in a bit closer?? What if we opened our hearts and allowed ourselves to have a deeper more meaningful relationship with nature.

I’d love to know what it is that you do to deepen your relationship with nature?

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It’s ok if your not sure, I can help guide you.

One of my most favourite things to do is to sit with my tree Maple. She is my guardian , we make time for each other. I visit her, we sit together she listens and I listen, I tune into her and I know when she’s not feeling it and she knows when I need her. I’ve had some truly amazing experiences sitting with my tree but that’s another share.

Have you got a special tree?

Im rambling now, thank you for showing up here and being brave. For showing up for yourself and nature. I look forward to hearing what you’ve been up to.

Much love

Lija 🌸