Heart Medicine

You cannot have the good without the bad, the rose without the thorn. Mother Nature knows this best, as so many medicines that are good for the heart speak to this metaphor. Rose and Hawthorne being good examples of this. ⁣
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Our sacred heart space is meant to be protected with healthy boundaries-the tenacious thorns that provide a safe place for our softness to thrive. ⁣
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Oftentimes in matters of the heart we can swing one of two ways along the continuum-towards hard heartedness where we shut down our sweet nature because too much has happened that we could not control for and we no longer feel safe to be ourselves; or the bleeding heart where our boundaries are nearly non existent and we continue to expose our softness in the wrong circumstances to be hurt again and again. ⁣
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Whether you fall more into one category or the other heart medicines like Rose and Hawthorne will gently guide you back to the center of your being, ushering in homeostasis. ⁣
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This is the thing I love best about herbal medicine-that the herbs have an intelligence all their own that can guide us back to ourselves. They do not usually work one dimensionally, but are able to help us back to the path no matter which direction we have wandered off to. ⁣
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Heart medicine is not in the denial of what makes us safe, it does not demand that we open before we are ready, and neither is it in the insistence that the world is too unsafe for us to share anything but the smallest pieces of ourselves. ⁣
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Heart medicine lives in our ability to provide a space for ourselves in which we feel safe enough to open. In this way we become unshakeable forces of nature, able to rise to any occasion to the degree in which we are also willing to tend to our own heart hearths. ⁣
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We have just passed the Imbolc threshold into the new promise of spring, I have found that this time of year is especially potent for seeding new ways of relating to ourselves. It is a good time to recommit to tending to your sacred heart ❤️ ⁣
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I would love to hear what your practices are for tending your heart space. Drop some love in the comments 👇🏼
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