‘Why is it so hard for black women to receive?’ 7/30 Live Stream Challenge.

In last nights financial therapy session in the Sacred Sista Sanctuary, there were a lot of powerful incites about the link between shame, unworthiness and our money behaviour.  It’s never really about the money, but the patterns of inherited behaviour and traumatic defenses that keep us bound in deprivation and self sabotage. Join me in this session to explore how to escape these patterns.

Make time to feel. 2/30 Anniversary Live Streams

The healing journey is not just about visiting spa’s and talking about our issues, it also involves making time to get clear on difficult choices, having hard conversations,  listening to our bodies and expanding our awareness at every level. Join me while I discuss the importance of making time to feel.

The Powerful ‘Black’ Sheep?

In researching content for my Black Mother Wound  retreat, I came across a powerful piece of writing that reframes the negative meaning of the ‘black’ sheep of the family. In this live stream I share my thoughts on how this position is an opportunity to reclaim your autonomy and break destructive family patterns!

The Black Sheep. By Bert Hellinger.

‘The so-called black sheep of the family are, in fact, hunters born of paths of liberation into the family tree.

The members of a tree who do not conform to the norms or traditions of the family system, those who since childhood have constantly sought to revolutionise beliefs, going against the paths marked by family traditions, those criticised, judged and even rejected, these are usually called to free the tree of repetitive stories that frustrate entire generations.

The black sheep, those who do not adapt, those who cry rebelliously, play a basic role within each family system, they repair, pick up and create new and unfold branches in the family tree.

Thanks to these members, our trees renew their roots. Its rebellion is fertile soil, its madness is water that nourishes, its stubbornness is new air, its passion is fire that re-ignites the light of the heart of the ancestors.

Uncountable repressed desires, unfulfilled dreams, the frustrated talents of our ancestors are manifested in the rebelliousness of these black sheep seeking fulfilment. The genealogical tree, by inertia will want to continue to maintain the castrating and toxic course of its trunk, which makes the task of our sheep a difficult and conflicting work.

However, who would bring new flowers to our tree if it were not for them? Who would create new branches? Without them, the unfulfilled dreams of those who support the tree generations ago would die buried beneath their own roots.

Let no one cause you to doubt, take care of your rarity as the most precious flower of your tree.

You are the dream of all your ancestors.’

 

You are lovable.

You are lovable, Valentine’s day or not. Whether you’re in a relationship or single, today is a wonderful opportunity to review your relationship to relationships.

Is today painful because you still carry the weight of unhealed relationship parts from the past? Is a parent wound keeping you stuck in a fearful, childlike, people pleasing dynamic? Has it been years since your last relationship leaving you feeling totally shut down?

As a result of abusive caregivers and / or partners, many of us have found ‘safety’ in avoiding intimacy all together. Closeness has become a place of shame, disappointment and danger so the child in us has become an adult with steel protective walls to keep people out. 

Rumi the poet tells us that, ‘The answer to the pain, is in the pain.’

Whilst difficult relationships cause ruptures, healing can only happen whilst re-engaging in relationship. Not the same ones that previously caused you harm, but with support and in the practice of discernment around how you understand, choose and move in relationships going forward.

In time, we can begin to feel safe as we heal the relationship with ourselves and use this as a benchmark to teach others how to love us.

Today, regardless of my past I affirm that I am loveable. I will move through today and beyond with the sacredness that I am.