Celebrating you!

This isn’t going to be a long post. But it is an important one.

Because it’s all about you.

Some of us will end up squirming in discomfort reading this, or reading it as if for someone else - ‘I see that for others - but not for me’. But the invitation is to allow in even a drop of my words, if you possibly can.

(Also, very much acknowledging that some of us will have no trouble soaking all this in at all - and that’s great too!!)

This is a post to celebrate you, and all that you are, in your messy humanness.

How does that relate to Somatic Movement, I hear you ask? Well, it’s a very good question, and maybe there doesn’t seem to be any connection at all on the surface.

But one thing we always have half an eye on in our movement community, is meeting ourselves right where we’re at.

Yes, we might have goals or intentions, and yes, ultimately we want things to change in how our soma* interacts with the world. But we also work to accept that we are where we are (including any frustration that might come with that) - and that includes recognising the things we might hope will change through this work, as well as celebrating our progress and our wins and all of the things that make us who we are, right now in this moment.

It can be SO easy to focus on what hurts, what doesn’t move well, our stress or tension… And forget that SO much of our amazing soma is working, is comfortable, that it’s getting us through life, that we are amazing just for being.

We hear a lot about people who have done or are doing great things to change the world for the better. But being those fantastic world changers - that’s not the path for most of us. Most of us are getting through our daily lives as best we can, doing our best, trying to be our best selves - and sometimes we forget that that is enough.

I’m not saying never take steps to change the world - AND it’s important to remember that we change the world in our own small ways just by living in alignment with our values. By keeping doing the right thing - as well as giving ourselves grace when we don’t always measure up to our own high standards.

So I’m just going to invite you, right now, to take a moment to remember all that you do - for yourself, for others, for the world - and that just by being here, just by learning to accept yourself right as you are in this moment, is well worth celebrating. YOU are well worth celebrating.

I see you**.

Wishing you, your loved ones, and everyone in this beautiful, tough world, all the good things. Keep being you.

*Soma = your living body as you experience it from the inside.

**If you don’t know me well yet, you might think this is some trite rubbish. It’s not. I know you’re doing your best, to live the best life that you can for yourself and others.

Emilie Leeks

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Emilie is a heart-centred life mentor and space holder, supporting those on a healing path. This is not an easy journey, and often we can find ourselves losing our way. Emilie's work meets you where you're at, with beautiful, accepting support and connection, and weaves that support with practices and explorations in self-compassion, body connection, and a return to a deep trust in ourselves. Note: all blog post content which refers to them, has been read and agreed to by Emilie's children.

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