We've been holding our breath lately, haven't we?
Self-protection is high; the proverbial walls between us are too. Maybe instead of prioritizing our own comforts, we open our hands and hearts.
What would it feel like if we allowed our hearts to crack wide open?
To feel the weight of our grief, to begin to really see each other again. Our individualism is literally killing us and much of the collective is gasping for breath.
Maybe there's another way, created & forged from the caverns of our heartbreak.
Heartbreak isn't the end, even when it feels like it. Heartbreak is the beginning of deep healing when we allow ourselves to break open. Crisis reveals who we are, who we love, what we stand for, & how our beliefs are practiced within our behaviors.
This season of reckoning has become a powerful illumination of our messy humanity, shining brightly in both revolutionary & revolting ways. Some of us may be holding our breath yet many of us are indeed gasping for it.
We cannot change what we do not fully accept or feel.
Cracking our hearts wide open will take courage in everyday practice; perhaps the deepest kind of practice we've ever known. Not just for a day or an occasion but for the long haul until we can all breathe freely again. Maybe we can transform the horror into glory & the vigilance for what we individually want into championing for what we all want.
Maybe through this heartbreak, we can create something new.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
An intuitive coach, consultant, & energy healer for 16 years, Tonyalynne Wildhaber is the founder of The Courage Practice® where she coaches individuals, leaders, coaches, and soulful entrepreneurs to make friends with their courage in a conscious way.
With an integrated blend of intuitive coaching, professional consulting, & energy healing practices, she partners with you to become who you were born to be before the world told you to be everything else.
Tonyalynne’s integrated approach has been informed and influenced by 16 years of coaching as well as her own life experience infused with chronic pain, deep loss, shame, a dark night of the soul & spiritual awakening, and a passionate, scrappy resilience practiced from birth to the present day. (Ask her about her birth story sometime.) Her work has also been powerfully shaped by her coursework, training, and study of dynamic thought leaders and teachers, including Dr. Brené Brown, Eckhart Tolle, Caroline Myss, Martin Seligman, and her spiritual sisters within The Woo Collective.
She serves as an affiliate coach for the Northwest Coaching Group and has been a member of the Forbes Coaches Council for her integrated leadership and life development approach. She is also a frequent contributor to Forbes, WomELLE, and Thrive Global. Head-over-heels in love with the Pacific Northwest, Tonyalynne drinks iced coffee in all weather, is committed to human rights, equality, & justice for all, regularly nerds out on women’s soccer, saves way too many quotes on her phone, writes with black sharpie pens, and is attempting to train a little Yorkie named Ollie.
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