The Work That Holds Us

I am deeply grateful for the invitation I received from @mia_5rhythms and @ecstatic.north to facilitate Primal Play at the recent gathering that was held at the beautiful @landvanyemaya

I could not have imagined a more welcoming, gentle and joyful way to slowly start coming out of my shell/cave/hibernation/recovery time.

2025 has been quite "brutiful" thus far (brutal + beautiful). After starting the year on a high note with a head full of ideas and inspiration, I soon had to pause pretty much everything in order to tend to my tender inner parts and fatigued body.

The ongoing healing from a relational rupture was soon accompanied by the gritty realities of renovating and moving house, the slow unraveling of a long-standing professional collaboration, all in the context of reckoning with perimenopause, ADHD diagnosis, therapy and medication trials, and of course the wider gnarly context of polycrisis we're currently living through. All the while still somehow solo-mothering a brilliant, complex, and just the sweetest kid the universe entrusted to me 😇😮‍💨😌

But this past Saturday, there I was: offering my vulnerable heart and loving presence to guide and hold space for deep authentic connection. Planting seeds of what's possible when we slow down and drop into intimacy together... Thank you to everyone who came to explore this space of possibility together!

In the presence of the magic that unfolded I was able to touch a place of remembering inside myself. A spark I'd lost connection to in the recent months..

I was reminded that this work that we do, that sometimes I judge as frivolous, is anything but.

The work of descending into ourselves, peeling off the layers, while being witnessed and seen by others doing the same..

The work of staying with the discomfort of all that comes up and still moving towards each other..

The work of showing up for connection, with care and compassion..

The work of turning towards joy and pleasure in the face of devastation and grief, so we can be nourished enough to keep going...

The work of learning how to be with complexity, with grey areas, with not-knowing...

This is important work. Valuable work. Meaningful work.