Willow

11/06/2025

The moon is absolutely stunning tonight. If you haven’t seen it yet, step outside and soak it in. ✨🌕

11/05/2025

You don’t have to heal everyone you feel.
Empathy doesn’t mean absorbing, fixing, or carrying what isn’t yours.
Protect your peace. Let others grow through their own discomfort that’s where true healing happens. 💫

11/05/2025

https://open.substack.com/pub/willowniemela/p/the-gift-and-challenge-of-being-an?r=253wwt&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=post-publish

Learning to Feel Deeply Without Losing Yourself

11/04/2025

When we are present with another person we are holding a relational space. We are actually creating a space for the other person to safely express into. Emotions, sensations, feelings of shame, and our voice are searching for a space to be shared. This space allows us to feel held, to feel supported, and to move out of the patterns of restriction and suppression.

So many of us have been waiting our whole lives to receive a safe supportive space to express our needs. When another person jumps in to fix us it restricts this relational space. Instead of receiving we are forced to change to attune to the person fixing. We have to take care of the person’s discomfort with emotions and vulnerable feelings.

The person sharing needs to feel held and support while they express themselves. To be reassured that their feelings are justified, that their experience matters, and that their feelings can be met with warmth and compassion.

The relational space meets our deepest needs to be seen, held, loved, and supported. It allows our tension, burden, and emotional wounds to release and soften. It brings us back to our body where we can feel settled and regulated.

A relational space helps us feel embodied, whole, and a deeper pattern of belonging in our somatic experience.

11/02/2025

Each breath, each act of love, each moment of courage
is an echo of the ones who walked this earth before us.

Our ancestors dreamed of a world where their children and grandchildren could live more freely, speak more openly, and heal more deeply.
They worked the land, raised families through hardship, and carried hope through storms they never got to see clear skies from.
They prayed for safety, dignity, and freedom for all. They fought for voices that could one day be heard without fear.

Many stood up when it was dangerous to do so. They tended the earth, defended their communities, crossed oceans, and survived losses that would have broken others. Every generation before us carved out a little more space for love, truth, and freedom to exist.

We are that dream unfolding, the living continuation of their prayers.
And now it’s our turn.
To keep tending what they began.
To speak when it matters.
To stand up with the same courage they did with compassion, for truth, for one another.

11/02/2025

https://open.substack.com/pub/willowniemela/p/honoring-our-ancestors?r=253wwt&utm_medium=ios

There’s a moment every autumn when the air changes when the wind carries a whisper that feels ancient and familiar.

11/01/2025

🎃 Halloween Oracle Reveal 🕯️
Happy November!
If you picked a card in yesterday’s post, here are your messages from The Halloween Oracle 👻

Card 1 – Zombie (Control)
You may be awakening to where you’ve been moving through life on autopilot letting others, routines, or fears guide your steps. Spirit reminds you: you have the power to break free. This is a time to reclaim your will and make choices that reflect your aliveness, not your obligation. You are not meant to be controlled, you are meant to elevate and create.

Card 2 – The Witch (The earthly weaver of the worlds)
Your magic is stirring stronger than ever. This card is a reminder that you are both creator and conduit, what you believe and focus on begins to take shape in the seen and unseen realms. Align your thoughts and actions with what you want to call in. The veil is thin; your intentions are potent. Craft them with care and confidence.

Card 3 – Nightingale (Voice)
Your voice is medicine. Spirit asks you to speak your truth, sing your story, or share what’s been resting in your heart. There’s healing in your words for yourself and for others. Whether through conversation, writing, or creative expression, this is your nudge to be heard. What you share now carries ripples of light into the world.

✨ Which message did you receive — 1, 2, or 3?
Trust that the one you picked found you for a reason.

10/31/2025

🎃✨ Happy Halloween, loves! ✨🎃
Tonight the veil is at its thinnest, and Spirit whispers a little louder.
Let’s have some fun with The Halloween Oracle, By Jimmy Manton and Stacey Demarco.

🕯️ Pick a card — 1, 2, or 3 — and tune in to which energy calls to you most.
Tomorrow I’ll share the messages that come through for each one.

Trust your first instinct… the card that catches your eye or makes your heart flutter is the one that holds your magic.

👻🦇💀
May your night be filled with wonder, protection, and a touch of enchantment.
Blessed Samhain, and remember, your ancestors walk beside you tonight.

10/28/2025

True light isn’t about escaping the dark it’s about learning to shine through it.
Every shadow you’ve met has taught your soul how to glow. ✨

10/28/2025

Energy never lies.
Spirit reminded me this weekend that real beauty isn’t what shines on the surface, it’s what glows in the depths. 🐋💫

This past weekend, Rowynn and I took a trip to Lily Dale, a historic lakeside spiritualist community that always feels like stepping into another world.