Greeting from the Caribbean side of Costa Rica, where I've spent the past several weeks integrating some deep shadow work (and have risen out of the ashes like a f*cking phoenix!) ❤️🔥
If you read my last update a month ago, I shared about how I had accidentally been without my phone for the month of December while in Peru - and was forced to really sit with myself without distraction.
I was in Sacred Valley alone where I didn't speak the language, and the country even temporarily shut down while I was there due to political unrest.
Since I was located in the countryside of the Andes mountains in high altitude, it was COLD - and I didn't even have a heater or hot water! Apparently, I was also there during summer. 🙄
But it taught me resourcefulness, and that community exists wherever you can create it. ❤️
I made friends down the road that lended me their heater.
In that same household, it became a ritual for us to cook dinners together.
Those dinners turned into ceremony and art making.
On Christmas, the day where many of us were away from our families in other countries, we invited others to commune with us as we shared music, poetry, and food.
I cried when I left, already missing the new found family that I made. 😭
If I were to be honest with you, I wasn't so sure if Your Story Medicine would even exist in 2023.
Even though I was exponentially growing my business, I was burnt out, tired, and exhausted.
I needed a total reset, and a return to my WHY…
So I attended a Buddhism retreat for people of color in the mountains of Costa Rica for New Year, where I sat with plant medicine and communed with my ancestors underneath the full moon. 🌕
And oooo… let me tell you, it was a butt kicker.
But the exact message I didn't know I needed.
We tend to believe that money is what will solve our problems, and while it absolutely does help to create financial ease - I am reminded over and over again that abundance is an inside job.
Daily meditation, yoga, and journaling has been a necessity for me.
Boundaries are the bridge that allows me to still love others without resentment.
Tending to my altar is how I keep the portals open for communion to my spirit guides.
(I now create one wherever I go!)
I've even started a practice of leaving a small bowl of food aside for my ancestors, since I've learned that our relationship with them requires reciprocity and regular offerings.
In this moment, I'm currently housed in the jungle alone - but I feel far from lonely.
(Two months ago, this would have been impossible!)
The love I feel from Mother Earth, God, and my ancestors is deep.
There isn't an ounce of fear in my body, even when snakes and spiders as big as my hand are regular visitors. 😂
It's completely
FREE, and open to any curious souls that are ready to walk this path.
