Intimate with myself,
All these
Moments and phases, all these seasons and parts that I
Hold, honor and cherish. I
Own them here.  Not lost or displaced. Not flung to the outer.
My dear Self. I am home in my arms, whatever this
Essence of me is. Whatever the changing forms, Oh my
Name is beautiful !!!   
            Even though my voice cannot truly speak it,
            I can feel the realness of me. I know the realness of me. 
Orienting now, I steer inward and home –
            No. I stand inward and home – to the
Wholeness I have always been and always will be.

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Happy homecoming to us all,
Chris

God said to me: Stop asking me to do stuff for you. Just be alive and open yourself to life. Stop acting like there’s some barrier between you and me. Between you and life. Between you and anything.
–Christina Brittain

Have you ever noticed that the body hurts more if you talk about the pain? It’s strange. It’s as if the body is actually in the process of healing, but rolls its eyes when it hears me complaining.
–Dave Fry

Use whatever word you like. God. The Universe. The Body. Life. Nature.  Source. Love. Whatever It is, It can’t be contained in a name anyway.  But we all call out to It to help us. 

It’s natural to want to ask for help. It’s natural to want to feel good. It’s natural to have suffering too. It’s even natural for us to quietly, cleverly, “spiritually” try to manipulate Life into doing it our way.  Our minds can try to be sneaky all they want, but Life keeps happening for us.

There is ALWAYS more going on in the Universe than what our minds have conjured in between our ears. 

What if Suffering Itself is actually a built-in pointer for us to call out to a Bigger Something beyond our “separate” selves? 

Maybe we just forgot to stop and notice and ask:
what IS it we are calling out to here, anyway…?

In this moment of clarity, when you lift your gaze, get out of your head and open your senses, can you feel a lightening? A loosening of the claustrophobia of “the problem?” Can you maybe even feel a wink?  A little grin maybe? Can you feel that your body, that Life, is already carrying you?

Life is has been Rolling you along with it in its exquisite movement this whole time
And maybe smiling and rolling its eyes at you a little, too…

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Winking and smiling with you!
Chris


I really hope you hear this. This conversation that I shared with a client was her experience, but it’s yours, too.  This took place in a text conversation. Rather than try to recreate it or give you my version of it, I asked her for her permission to share it…….
 
Here are our texts:
 
Beautiful Client Person:
“…..We went through a big rough patch with my son last week and I was thinking it might be helpful for my husband and I to talk with you so we could get a better idea of how to navigate with him. My son and I had a really interesting moment when he was telling me things that I wished I wasn’t hearing. I just asked myself in that moment what your response would be, and it helped lead to a really beautiful moment…..”
 
Chris:
“Wow. That sounds so powerful. That whole exchange and the whole upwelling of “content” and the way you were able to talk with him and work with it.  That’s wonderful for all of you.  It seems like every time you go through one of these situations with your family, your skills in navigating it create it as more of a bonding experience for you all….? That’s what it seems like from over here.
 
It also seems like it’s giving YOU confidence in your ability to dig in and find your own truth in there. Even if you use the imagination of what I would say as your doorway to your own wisdom.  That’s actually the truth, you know?  Who knows what I would’ve actually said? But it opens door and gets you feeling in and connected to your own wisdom.  I just want you to know that that’s what’s happening.  You were connecting to YOU. To your OWN connection to wisdom.  So gorgeous…..”
 
Sessions with me are just doorways to have your own wisdom come into the room. They are a special lens that gives you your own access point and way to Connect.  You hear something I say (which is often some reflection of what YOU just said) and you hear your own truth. You recognize it.  It resonates deep inside with that mechanism we all have that guides us.  We can FEEL the truth.  We have the ability to do that.
 
So whether it is in sessions, in a poem or passage of a book you are reading, in the oracle deck of cards you are using, in a hummingbird at the window, a butterfly or dragonfly showing up at a particular moment, something a friend said……… all of these things were just the vehicle. 
 
We just know things. We feel it if it’s true for us.  Wisdom will keep showing up for you, and it’ll flow in through any opportunity, image symbol, conversation that speaks to what is right for YOU.
 
Whenever I write these emails I am of course talking to YOU.  All of you and each one of you, specially.  I hope you resonate with this conversation – that you can really take in that YOU have access to your own knowing.  And that it is fine to use anything you like, and accept Wisdom knowing in any form that it comes in. It’s not about how it arrives – you recognize it by how it feels inside.  But it is always there, always showing up for you, always available.   
 
You are powerful, magical and you really do “got this,” everyone.
 
Loving you so much,
Chris