09/21/2025
Living in harmony with the seasons and learning to pull from the teachings, gifts and blessings of the natural world is something that has been essential for me in navigating life's many challenges, and being able to live it to the fullest despite what it might bring my way.
Fall is the season that teaches us how to let go. Our gardens are harvested, fruit pulled from their vines, crops removed, flowers shrivel, plants die, trees lose their leaves, many animals begin their preparations for their deep sleeps of winter. Yet nature doesn't balk at this process, nature in its inherent wisdom knows to let go, to allow the transition to happen with all the grace of the changing of the colours of the leaves, knowing in its silent awareness that after a restorative winter spring will come again.
As humans we have aspects of us that are designed to want to clench with white knuckles and tight fists to the familiar, the comfortable (even when it has become uncomfortable), the known, and the thought of letting go, exhaling, releasing, surrendering feels impossible. The other side feels to frightening, invokes feelings of loss of control, or in many cases the concern that letting go, or surrendering means "giving up" and since we are unaware of the nuanced by vital difference between surrender and resignation, still we hold tight.
I have had first hand the experience of the need to let go this month. On September 8th my beloved father was taken back to Creator as his body breathed it's final breaths in my company. Not many things are harder than loss and the subsequent grief that follows. For me, allowing the tears to flow, and act as fertilizer for whatever may be the next chapter to be written for me on the other side of this pain (analogous to a long hard winter), and trusting that, as nature does, when my own metaphorical spring comes it will be a beautiful time of rebirth.
If you are going through your own season of transition and would like help with whatever time of change, transition, loss, or grief that you may be experiencing, come out TONIGHT - Sunday, September 21st from 7:30 to 9 pm is the Fall Equinox Sound bath. Special guest Jack Semple will be there with myself and creator of the Sun Series, Tara Semple. Sound is a powerful tool for release, transformation, and healing, and this series was designed to support us through all of life's transitions through the celebration of the seasons.
Tickets are going fast *we hope you can join us!
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