My hope in speaking engagements, retreats, consultations, writing, and teaching, is to provide safe spaces, resources, and ongoing support in finding your dormant parts, peaking into your freedom and joy that is just ahead of you, and being with what you are thinking and feeling today. You are forced into a major life transition of emptying from the day to day life you loved. The void of vibrancy, connection, and meaning, may leave you anxious, fatigued, irritable, and isolating. Normal for sure.
I wanted to share this photo with you as one of the visual tools for telling your story. We all have stories. Some like to share one on one and others love a circle. These rocks tossed on the sand by the ocean are an ignition for your story. Look again at the rocks. Which one are you drawn to? Does one rock remind you of something? If you could take one home, which would you pick?
Here are a few of the responses that you might relate to from these rock
formations:
1. Wanting to speak out more but closed up because I feel criticized.
2. Left out
3. Need to be cradled in a blanket and comforted
4. Kissing
5. Loss of family
6. Isolated but in view
7. Brightly shining
Look at the photo again. What do you see? You can use the above responses to start your story and see what you uncover about what you have been thinking and feeling these days. Stories heal us. Some people don’t like to write. They want to just speak it. Anyway that works for you is the right way. Maybe you have no words today and you just like looking at the rocks.
May found objects, like these rocks, bring out your story. Heal you and lead you to curiosity and compassion.
Comment here or send me an email of your story, your found objects, natalie@emptynestsupport.com
Take care,
Natalie
818-763-0188 Los Angeles, CA
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Natalie Caine, M.A. natalie@lifeintransition.org
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