I work with clients who are experiencing difficulties with finding their place in the world as it changes, and navigating the unfolding crises and difficulties both personal and collective. How we preceive the world and express ourselves within it, is a direct expression of our inner state; the traumas we have experienced, and unexpressed grief and anger from our past. So here is where we need to be, paying attention to the inner world and then how it wants to connect to the outerworld.
Many of us are in a state of overwhelm and instead of living our lives as we would hope, we are just managing or getting by. Our nervous systems are not built for the amount of information that we receive each day. And as a way of coping, we may choose apathy, become depressed or have addictions, all whilst feeling confused and that 'something is missing'. This and the added stresses of everyday life can get in the way of engaging fully with the world as it is now. But it does not have to be like this. There are ways that we can we can explore our inner world and reconnect with and discover the gestures inside of us that want to honour this life and give us meaning and joy. I call it, in Joanna Macy's words 'Coming Back to Life'.
'Of course! The future
doesn't lie down in flat miles.
It's in the imagination
with which you perceive this world,
and the gestures
with which you honour it.'
Mary Oliver
