To Live, We Must Let Go of What’s Run Its Course
Feb 24, 2023
This month on my podcast, Embodied, my friend Naomi Irons shares the story of the near-death experience she experienced on Christmas morning in 2021.
Her story is incredible and full of unexpected twists and turns. The insights and wisdom that spring from this conversation are the true gifts.
Naomi lives in the jungle on the Island of Hawaii. The unstable connection sometimes distorts her voice, but her message is clear: to truly live, we must let go of what has run its course.
Highlights of our hour and twenty-four-minute conversation include:
- The emotional roller coaster of letting go of physicality
- How Naomi’s experience changed her relationship to being in the present moment/showing up
- How the experience impacted Naomi and her family members and became a moment of deep, shared connection
You can listen to the podcast episode wherever you get your podcasts; you can also access the podcast player above, or visit the episode page: The Underwater Garden: A Conversation with ...
Shame is Layered and Sneaky
Apr 29, 2021
When we do the healing work, it is not easy to face the wound of our inner child, because shame is layered and sneaky. It is one of the more difficult emotions to work with. Other emotions are more straightforward. Sadness is sadness, you can identify it more easily. You have been sad before and have seen other people express their sadness. Same with anger. Although you might have judgments about feeling it, you recognize it as is anger, and most of the time, you know what to do to release it. Shame hides and covers up other emotions. When the original wound, for example, sadness or anger, is ignored and isn’t witnessed or validated by another loving person, or worst, if it was made fun of, ridiculed, or used for another person’s benefits, we learn that what we feel is not acceptable. We understand that being sensitive is not useful to survive, and it can actually be emotionally unsafe to be so.
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Belonging, love, and safety are essential to the growth of a child. Without it, we are ...
