Hawk & Rose

03/17/2026

"In many shamanic societies, if you came to a medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispirited, or depressed, they would ask one of four questions: 'When did you stop dancing? When did you stop singing? When did you stop being enchanted by stories? When did you stop being comforted by the sweet territory of silence'?" ~Angeles Arrien, author of The 4-Fold Way

Tending to your regulation is an integral part of healing. How do you regulate besides just coming in for acupuncture treatments?

Regulation is usually tacked into the whole phrase, nervous system regulation, a term we are all familiar with. The nervous system is neurological and the neurological, in Chinese medicine, is often paralleled to the shen, or spirit. Not the same exactly, but very relatable.

Of course, our holy, numinous spirit :-) is not our brain or our nervous system, per sè, but the understanding of the interweaving of eastern terminology and western is important. It can help us to understand why meditation is both a medicine for the spirit and for your nervous system regulation... for the mind, the heart, and the body.

Meditation can actually help heal your physiological and psychological symptoms at the root!

When we are regulated, we are not stressed and when we are not stressed, our physiology and psychology can self-harmonize, we come into our center, our authenticity, and our feel good embodiment.

In our world, developing a meditation practice that works for you in an authentic way can be challenging. This is what I wanted to write to you about today.

'the comfort of silence', as the quote above mentions, can be meditation, contemplation, or reflection. This is the yin: a sacred feminine building of inner resources, restoration, regulation, and integration of the yang aspects of our life (which are many!). This is key to health.

Here are some real life practical tips for starting or starting again, a meditation practice:

*Educate yourself about the meditation research out there now. Allow your conscious mind to get on board and motivated by the life changing effects that meditation can have!

*Addressing blocks to meditation with other practices first: EFT tapping, qigong shaking, specific breath work, yoga, grieving, meditative walking/lying down or standing, parts work (which help to address the inner guards or protectors who don't want you to meditate)...

*Meditation is about being with yourself. Being in your body. Feeling what is here and what is beneath the surface. (Uncovering what is beneath the surface, in the subconscious, plays the biggest role in healing.) Meditation can be challenging if there is pain, fear, and trauma in the tissues/energy field that have not been integrated. Seek trauma healing in whichever forms speak to you. Find a trusted guide, counselor, therapist to support you.

*Acupuncture can help peel layers of trauma so that you can be in your body a little easier. The needles inserted into the body are a somatic-energetic avenue for trauma healing. (However, I believe we need a multi-therapeutic approach for trauma healing).

(Per cross-cultural wisdom traditions, as Angeles Arrien succinctly puts it: singing, dancing, and stories can also support your regulation AND address blocks to meditation!)

Finding the type of meditation that works for you and having a few different types of meditation in your medicine basket will help you to practice regularly. There is somatic meditation, heart-centered meditations, chakra meditation, breath/midnfulness meditation, vipassana, and many more.

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02/17/2026

New healing space!

02/16/2026

When we journey into our body, we encounter all the things that lead us back to ourselves. The body is wise and intelligent, and knows how to change, transform, and heal.

11/14/2025

Struck by this message today. May it also be something for you.

11/13/2025

Why you can understand your patterns but still feel stuck in them—

Because understanding happens at the mental level.

But change happens at three deeper levels most people never address.

Here's what I mean:

**LEVEL 1: Mental Understanding** ✓
You've done the therapy. Read the books. You KNOW your attachment style. You understand why you people-please. You can intellectually trace your patterns back to childhood.

This is valuable. But it's not enough.

**LEVEL 2: Somatic Integration** (Most people stop before here)

The pattern isn't just in your thoughts. It's encoded in your nervous system.

Your body EXPECTS to be abandoned, so it pre-emptively braces. Your tissues hold the memory of every boundary violation.

Until you work somatically—releasing what's stored in your body—knowing your pattern doesn't change your pattern.

**LEVEL 3: Energetic Clearing** (Almost no one addresses this)

The pattern exists in your energy field. It's in your lineage—passed down through generations.

It's in the agreements you made (consciously or not) about who you have to be to stay safe/be loved/belong.

Until you clear it energetically, it keeps regenerating.

**LEVEL 4: Soul Retrieval** (The deepest level)
Parts of your essential self went into hiding to survive. Your joy. Your power. Your voice. Your sexuality. When we call these parts back home, you don't just understand yourself differently.

You BECOME different.

This is why I integrate:

🧠 Parts Work (mental/emotional)

🫀 Acupuncture + Somatic practices (body/nervous system)

⚡ Shamanic healing (energetic/ancestral)

✨ Soul retrieval (reclaiming essential self)

Because transformation isn't about understanding more at the mental level.

It's about integrating ALL the levels where the pattern lives.

Soul-level Embodied Having…
When you do that?

You don't just know why you people-please.

You stop people-pleasing.
You don't just understand your relationship pattern.
You (without effort) choose differently.
You don't just talk about your purpose.
You live it.

This is the difference between insight and metamorphosis.

Which level have you worked with?

Which one is calling you next? Tell me what resonates. 💬

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11/06/2025

One conversation happening in five languages.

That’s a pattern.

This is why working on just your health, or just your money mindset, or just your relationship issues gives you partial results.

Because you're addressing the symptom in one domain while the root pattern keeps running the show from beneath.

Real transformation happens when you identify the CORE pattern and work with it at every level:

Somatically (in your body)
Emotionally (in your feelings)
Energetically (in your field)
Practically (in your life structures)
Spiritually (in your soul's evolution)

When you do that?

Your chronic pain resolves AND your wealth dialogue changes.
Your hormones stabilize AND your relationship deepens.
Your anxiety settles AND your purpose clarifies.

Because you're not fixing symptoms.
The symptoms become the gateways.

You're transforming the underlying architecture.

This is alchemical work.

And the woman who gets this?

She goes to the root. She knows it’s not easy and that it takes time, building her transformational skill set, consistent lifestyle reframes…


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11/05/2025

10/31/2025

Elemental resiliency is the ability to create emotional attunement with the Earth.

10/30/2025

10/30/2025

What Nobody Tells You About Healing

It's not linear.

You don't "get better" in a straight line.

You spiral.

The spiral is the portal, where things get released, and parts come home.

You'll feel amazing, then old patterns surface.
You'll have clarity, then confusion returns.
You'll feel strong, then suddenly tender again.

Symptoms get better, but return…

And this? This is exactly right.

Because real healing isn't about erasure.
It's about integration.

You're not deleting your past.
You're composting it into medicine.

Each time you spiral back, you're at a different altitude.
You see more. You understand differently. You respond more than react.

The woman who heals-for-the-long-term knows this.

She builds her inner resources,
And so her power builds for the next cycle.

She doesn't panic when old feelings resurface.
She recognizes: "Oh. There's more here to integrate."

She trusts the spiral.

And… she’s holding the paradox:

Embodying a new identity through the alchemical
death and rebirth process of healing
– is the same as –
becoming MORE of who she's always been.

(Transforming is an identity shift - becoming the person who has _____…
Fill in the blank with what you want want in your life).

If you're in a spiral right now—
You're not going backward.
You're going deeper. And flying higher.

Expanding your capacity
for the full spectrum sensation of life.
From pain to pleasure and everything in between.

Without judgement. That is Love’s goal. That is self-compassion.

And that's exactly where transformation lives.

10/29/2025

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10/27/2025

I'M DOING EVERYTHING RIGHT.

→ So why do I still feel like sh*t?

You're eating clean.
Working out consistently.
Taking all the supplements.
Seeing the therapist.
Saying the affirmations.
Considering HRT or on it...

And still...

- Exhausted by 2pm
- Anxious for no reason
- Hormones all over the place
- Can't lose the weight
- Zero libido

Sound familiar?

HERE'S WHAT THEY DON'T TELL YOU:

Nervous system dysregulation.

You can't supplement away
the stress of living disconnected
from your authenticity.

You can't meditate through
years of unprocessed grief,
unexpressed rage,
and unmet needs.

YOUR BODY IS ASKING:

"When will it be safe
to stop performing?

When can I finally rest?

When will you listen to what
I've been trying to tell you?

Your symptoms are invitations.

THE MISSING PIECE:

Your body remembers:
- Every boundary you didn't set
- Every time you said yes when you meant no
- Every emotion you swallowed to keep the peace
- Every need you labeled as "too much"

This is stored in your nervous system.
Your hormones. Your energy field.

And no amount of "right" things
will heal what hasn't been felt.

WHAT CHANGES EVERYTHING:

When you stop treating your body
like a problem to solve...

And start treating it like
the messenger it is.

When you address the ROOT:
🌙 Nervous system integration
✨ Emotional alchemy
💫 Energetic clearing
🔥 Soul-level yumminess!

THIS is sustainable transformation.

CHANGE CAN BE REAL FOR YOU.

When you begin healing at a depth
most approaches don't reach.

Ready to go deeper?

💌 DM me "DEEPER” for my free guide or ASK ME ANYTHING!

The women I work with are done
with surface solutions.

Let's get to the root.