Shedding the layers…………

Hello Dear ones!  It has been a while since I have been in the practice of sending out newsletters.  There has been so much that has been shifting and changing both in my personal life and here within Shamanic Twist Institute, Wellness Center & Studio!!

Life has asked me over the last 11 months to do much shedding and letting go.  As many of you know and some of you may not – my son passed away in an accident last November.  Since then, obviously my world has been flipped around, tossed about, and shaken up.  I had to quickly begin to adapt to what my new reality was, and the only way for me to do that was to turn toward everything I didn’t want to and begin the heartbreaking process of shedding everything I had known my life to be up until that point.  It has a been a beautiful and sacred journey – and yes of course with the most harrowing of heartbreaks.

As we come into this fall season, nature teaches us in the most beautiful way that letting go and shedding can be a thing of grace and beauty.  Just look out upon the hills and valleys and we will see the most stunning display of cycles and seasons.  As the trees enter into their shedding season, they do so with such brilliance.  Let us take a note from natures handbook on how to move through our own cycles and seasons.

There are times in our life where it is very easy to shed, to let go, to surrender.  We all have had those times in our lives where we are so complete with something that it is easy to let go of what was, and open up to that which awaits us.  Sometimes we know what that is and the excitement of the new softens any sadness of letting go of what was. Sometimes we know we are complete with something, yet we are not sure what awaits us, and this can be a little more challenging to relax into, yet we are so complete with what has been that we find the resolve to lean into the mystery of what will be, becoming explorers of our own unfolding.  And then there are times when the very thing we have cultivated and created in our lives, the thing we feel aligned with at a soul level, the thing we know we have been in healthy relationship with starts to feel just the slightest bit restrictive.  We begin to feel antsy or restless, and there is a stirring beginning deep down inside us.  It may feel like something waking up or calling to us, and yet we have been so cozy and comfortable where we have been, that we don’t want to acknowledge this stirring.  When this version of shedding comes along, it can feel very counterintuitive to open up to the letting go – but it is yet another call for our own evolution.  I call this “shedding the soul skin”. 

When we are asked to shed at this level, the very thing that has held us and shaped us into this most current expression of ourselves, it is our soul actually calling for another expanded expression.  Are we courageous enough to lean in, to allow for the new expression to come in.  This doesn’t mean walking away from everything we have known, we take with us all our wisdom, resources, and gifts, and we make room for more and more of our essence to shine and dance in the world.  

Shedding is sometimes very subtle. It is releasing a way of engaging things, letting go of a pattern or shifting perceptions.  And of course, it can also be on a much larger scale, jobs, relationships, places we live, friendships, our children growing up and moving into their own life’s expression and dance.  These, life, death, life cycles happen continuously all around us throughout our lives.

What I have learned and cultivated over the last 25 years of my adult personal and professional life, is that it becomes much easier (not easy) but easier, to surrender to these cycles and turn toward them, rather than fight and resist that which is has either happened, is happening, will inevitably happen, or to ignore that which is calling. Turning toward even the things we don’t like. This has been the journey for me in the last eleven months – how to let go and turn toward the very thing I never wanted to happen.  It is only in my ability to turn toward it and invite it in, that I have been able to allow for this journey to be one of beauty, grace, and sacredness.

So, I invite you to take some time in this beautiful season of letting go, of shedding, and get out in nature and be a student of the wisdom that is there. What are you ready, or willing to shed?  Let us not be afraid of the shedding, let us celebrate it and lean into it, for this is the pathway to new growth, evolution on a soul level, and greater expression of our essential natures.

Be well, be true and live the life your soul is craving!

With much love and gratitude,

Dannielle

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As we come into this fall season, nature teaches us in the most beautiful way that letting go and shedding can be a thing of grace and beauty.  Just look out upon the hills and valleys and we will see the most stunning display of cycles and seasons.  As the trees enter into their shedding season, they do so with such brilliance.  Let us take a note from nature's handbook on how to move through our own cycles and seasons.

Shedding is sometimes very subtle. It is releasing a way of engaging things, letting go of a pattern or shifting perceptions.  And of course, it can also be on a much larger scale, jobs, relationships, places we live, friendships, our children growing up and moving into their own life’s expression and dance.  These, life, death, life cycles happen continuously all around us throughout our lives.

So, I invite you to take some time in this beautiful season of letting go, of shedding, and get out in nature and be a student of the wisdom that is there. What are you ready, or willing to shed?  Let us not be afraid of the shedding, let us celebrate it and lean into it, for this is the pathway to new growth, evolution on a soul level, and greater expression of our essential natures.

Be well, be true and live the life your soul is craving!

With much love and gratitude,

Dannielle