An Indivisible Part Of The Sacredness
Hello, awesome one!
I’m fresh back from a week of writing in the Maine woods in Rosie the Roadboat. While I used to be a backpack everything in sort of camper, life evolves and changes as do our bodies. When I head into the woods now with my partner in love of 33 years (wha?!), we do it differently than we did before.
Evolution emerged through us in a way that still allows us to commune with the big mama Nature, while also caring for our bodies in a way that aligns. Some of you are aware as I have shared here and in other writing before, and I’d love to share with all of you if this story is new for you, in 2016, my partner Brian, survived five strokes and corrective brain surgery for a rare genetic condition called moyamoya we were unaware he even had. In fact, we had no idea such a disease existed given it affects fewer than 5000 people in the United States.
Before what I lovingly call his “health adventure,” we competed in triathlons together with Brian taking it to the extreme and completing Ironman Lake Placid. We also ran what was then called CrossFit Beacon together as the hobby job we called the “jobby” fostering community around getting fit and having fun. We still workout there today and are deeply grateful for how we were held through it all in 2016.
Athletic endeavors and adventuring outdoors has always been a facet of how we roll. Still is, as we have rolled with this evolution, as unexpected as it was. Adventuring simply looks different for us now.
Recovery for Brian included relearning to walk and talk before he, what looked like, seamlessly emerged back into his professional world. As a father of our two sons, he was everpresent for them through it all. And despite the intensity of his continued and constant recovery, he would be the first person to share with you how grateful he is for the experience–a gratitude that leaves me in awe.
I share this with you as a sacred reminder that while we may never understand how creation emerges through us, we have the power to be one with the evolution.
We are indivisible from all that is. We are each a sacred indivisible part of the miracle that is life. Evolution is an emergence.
Creation emerges through us, for us. It is up to us to choose trust.
While there are days I find this hard to trust and integrate into my consciousness design, I know it to be true in my heart and in my essence. I witness the perfection of life that Brian and I have evolved into together and it is sacred just the way it is.
- Invite yourself to reflect on your evolution as an emergence–a sacred path only you get to travel.
- Notice any judgment of how it should be gets in the way of savoring the now of what is.
- Consider your relationship to full acceptance of what is true for you.
- Recognize that acceptance liberates all of your power of choice to become one with your evolution.
- Find the edge of your acceptance and keep expanding it with every choice.
Consciousness design is a cocreation. When we cocreate from a place of being indivisible from the miracle that is life, we transmute resistance into power for our vision.
May you become one with the emergence that IS you, awesome one. ~K.
What I Am Loving Reading
This book was on an end cap at my library, and I was the lucky first patron to check it out. Ms. Yu’s life experience of having one arm paralyzed spoke to me, given living with and witnessing my partner. Having full able-bodied privilege, I am enthusiastic about learning and reflecting on what I don’t know as lived experience.
Ms. Yu’s bio describes that she is an award-winning social impact entrepreneur, disability advocate, and content creator. She is the founder and CEO of Diversability, a social enterprise to elevate disability pride and build disability power. On my account, she is also an exceptional writer and a human willing to be vulnerable with her experience. I immensely admire both of those qualities.
Reading stories and perspectives of others’ lived experiences different from mine is one of my favorite applications of consciousness design. I always find my edge expanded after turning the last page. In The Anti-Ableist Manifesto, I also learned ways I can advocate out in the world. That always vibes me up.
Check it out from the library. Or you can read an excerpt in The Guardian here. I welcome your thoughts!
