Shifting, growing, living

Reflections from Solstice

I had the priviledge of spending Solstice weekend with my bestie, her husband, other close friends, and a new person I have been dating for a few months. It was an intense and relaxing and heart expanding weekend. It was a weekend of me going outside my comfort zone in some pretty significant ways, not the least of which being allowing someone I’m dating into my “regular” life, meeting some of my people, and spending basically three days straight with me. I am still processing the weekend and keep coming back to the reality that I have some absolutely amazing humans in my life/inner circle.

Life doesn’t end at 30 or 40 or 50 or 60 or XX unless we let it. And. Over the years, parts of us shed, die, and heal while others are born, grow, give us our meaning and purpose, and integrate. We are ever evolving beings, meant to shift and morph and change, to contract and expand, to love and grieve, to live, fully, authenically, thoroughly. We fear aging because we fear the unknown, and yet a…