Every day it feels like the world is slipping deeper and deeper into dis-ease. Chaos. Madness, even.

Years ago, I’d talk about learning to ride the waves. These days, it seems more like learning to find the surface after being pummeled by a tsunami.

What I know is this: when I’ve been knocked over by a wave, panic may be my first reaction. But it doesn’t help. What works is finding a way to return to calm and acting from that place.

That’s one of the main reasons I hold these Soul Soaks. They give me a still center to return to throughout the month when daily events get my mind spinning into more negativity and hopelessness. They remind me to trust that the Divine has me. And when I’m calm and remember that, I can trust myself, too.

Brianna Wiest wrote,
“To trust yourself does not mean to believe you will never again be hurt.
>To trust yourself is not to think that you’re safer for playing small.
>To trust yourself means that you will dare to step forward, despite all odds, no matter what’s up against you, no matter what forces may be at work. To trust yourself means that you are no longer content to lodge your soul in circumstances that have long stopped serving.”

My hope is that these Soul Soaks offer a little space to remember that you, too, are held in love and grace. A chance to loosen and release what no longer serves. A way to strengthen certainty and self-trust. And to allow healing energy to move through us into a world that so desperately needs it (and us).