Tag: parents

The Journey

When you’re worried, or upset, or unable to focus, or triggered…

Hello, sweet friend, I am listening to James Taylor tell me he is the Handy Man and sipping a cuppa yum yum. I can hear birdies and a lawnmower and the bubbling of my little fountain outside. This moment right here and now is perfect. Here is the main thing that I wanna say… to myself today. And also to you because, friends on the journey. STAY IN YOUR CENTER. I guess that needs to be shouty sometimes, you know? We make ourselves crazy with worry and anxiety when we don’t. JUST BECAUSE IT’S UNCOMFORTABLE, IT DOESN’T MEAN YOU GET… …Read More »

Tea with Robin

We’re Moving Through These Levels of Suckitude and It’s Not as Bad as We Thought It Would Be // Tea With Robin Episode 154

On a healing journey, we often find that there can be an intensity experienced when moving through old energies and releasing them. I call it suckitude. We are moving through the suckitude… and often it feels hard and challenging. But in the bigger picture, we are moving through. Maybe, hopefully, we are finding out as we make our way that it’s not as bad as we once feared it would be. This conversation today is about the personal journey we’re on — the emotional one, the codependent journey we’re healing from, and then also our experience of being in the… …Read More »

Intuitive Healing

Honoring what is (vs. pushing the plan)

honoring what is

I woke up this morning with my goals in mind Meditate, do my practices, eat yummy breakfast, take a walk, work a little in the garden and then write this week’s post (I was going to tell you about the wildest miracle manifesting story I have ever experienced firsthand), then see some awesome clients in the afternoon, and then dinner with my husband. Fun day, full day, packed day, busy day. No time for deviations – just stick to the plan day. And then I got the email. A very special and dear-to-me mentor is dying. She made the decision… …Read More »

Tea with Robin

You Are Not the Churn // Tea With Robin Episode 150

When we struggle, when we are churning in our upset, we believe the churning is who we are. Waking up means we recognize that this happens and are willing to believe that we are never limited but this energy trying to dance with us now IS very limited. Let’s use all of our struggle for our liberation. The fullness of who you are — Spirit in a body expressing itself as You, the personality self — is NOT the churn. This week’s featured letter: Help with my mother-in-law. How do I see her as the light and not as a… …Read More »

Tea with Robin

Releasing the Drama Patterns You’ve Experienced // Tea with Robin Episode 141

When we tell the broken stories, we remind ourselves that we’re broken. The trouble with keeping that awareness going is that it continues to align us with the powerlessness we felt. These energies need to clear if we want to proceed in our truth. Releasing the drama patterns you’ve experienced is what will get you free. In this episode, I talk about how we got here and how we can get out. I share some of my own stories and experiences working with this too. Are you willing to be honest and truthful about where you are and what you… …Read More »

Relationships

It’s Ok If It Wasn’t Good, You Can Stop Pretending

It’s OK If It Wasn’t Good. It’s OK to Stop Pretending.

originally published June, 2017 My mother’s funeral. The thing I remember most was my near-constant desire to lunge at the microphone WWF style and shout something very un-eulogy like. All of the people there, these “close, special friends,” most of whom I did not know at all inside this massive church, telling me how my mother was THEEEE MOST wonderful woman in the world. And then they’d gush about how she’d light up whenever she spoke about me. How proud she was! Loved me so much! Light of her world! I wanted to punch them in the face. Right there… …Read More »

Tea with Robin

Let All Things Be Exactly as They Are // Tea with Robin Episode 140

On finding ways to support your journey through spiritual practice the down-to-earth way. A spiritual practice is not for show. It’s not a resume, not an earthly credential. Your practice is here to support you in where you long to be. In this episode, I share my personal practice and walk us through the experience of what that looks like amidst the churn and struggle that is life and relationships. I also share listener letters and loves. All this and more! Come grab a cuppa yum yum and meet me here: Listen to this episode here or read the transcript… …Read More »

Intuitive Healing, Relationships

Our Dads Were on a Journey Too

our dads were on a journey too

I was baking cookies when my aunt called to say that my dad had died. She had to repeat herself twice. And the shock of it all was so much that I burned my arm on the oven rack, forgetting to use the oven mitts. I still have the scar along the inside of my forearm. It was Christmas time, and our household was in the midst of Gingerbread House Party preparations. People were coming and this wasn’t supposed to be happening now. I had been calling my dad for over a week, becoming more and more pissed at him… …Read More »

Intuitive Healing

There’s Only You and Me and We Just Disagree

I love that song by Dave Mason: We Just Disagree I think it’s really a love song of sorts but every time I hear it my heart finds its way back to family and old friends where wounding happened and stuff still isn’t healed. My eyes prick with tears as I tell you that. Sometimes it’s just really hard to be awake and on a journey and have people in our lives where the shit has gone down and the path with them isn’t smooth and easy anymore. Harder still are the places where I feel like the horrible stuff… …Read More »

Tea with Robin

Love and Forgiveness // Tea with Robin Episode 135

In the spirit of our emotional well-being, it becomes important to forgive. To let ourselves process and grieve what we missed out on, and then (in my case anyway) to forgive our parents. All of life is a mother, a father, if we choose to let it be.   In this episode: Everything we’re walking through including the heaviness of world events. Small things being big things to lift your heart 🙂 finding what’s special and beautiful for us. Parents. Us being parents. Generational stuff. Forgiveness, compassion. Dealing with our baggage. Sharing a collective love and hug with you about… …Read More »