Tag: Nurture

Lying Fallow

In the tumult of today’s world, I need to quiet my soul, to stop the gerbil-on-the-wheel thoughts that invade my mind and keep me agitated and upset. I need to lie fallow for a while, to rest in the deep knowing that I am held and that I am worthy whether or not I am doing anything or accomplishing anything. It is the ultimate self-care – to lie fallow for a while, while my roots grow deep, and I reconnect with who I am at the deepest level.

Goddess Inspired

July 15, 2022

Tagged being, Burn Out, Doing, Nurture, Self-Care

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Lying Fallow

“Sometimes a man can be a lot like a farm. He lets his heart lay fallow for a while, and instead of his feelings dying out, they just go dormant, his emotions growing deeper and stronger as time passes. A person only needs to clear away the weeds on the surface to uncover them.” — Linda Kage

This week I have felt empty, out-of-sorts, and out-of-tune. I feel like the world is closing in on all of us, and I am helpless to make a difference. I feel burned out and tired – tired of the negativity and lack of compassion that I see manifesting daily. Although it is a foolish notion, I feel the weight of the world, and my empathic self wants to be able to flip a switch that will change it.

In this kind of emotional turmoil, I need to let go. I need to allow these feelings to alchemize into something deeper, to transform into something totally different. To do that I need to allow myself to lie fallow.

In agriculture, allowing the land to lie fallow gives it an opportunity to rest and renew. So it is in humans; we must rest in order to be productive later. For me, that means allowing myself to just be while doing the things that nurture my soul. Walking, painting, journaling, meditating, conversations with friends, even mindless video games, can allow my brain to rest or to be engaged in a new way. These things feed me and fill me up. They energize me and allow me to escape the circular thoughts that keep me trapped in my head.

I know that I am not the only one who is feeling the daily negativity. I know that I am not the only one who is feeling helpless to make a difference. While I know that I am more than this body and these thoughts, it is easy to forget that I am not alone, that there is a Source who upholds me even during the worst of times. It is easy to forget that I am enough – that I don’t have to do anything to be loved beyond measure.

Barbara Garland
July 2020

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Acts of Kindness

Some of the most important acts of kindness are those you give yourself.

Goddess Inspired

May 4, 2021

Tagged Kindness, love, Nurture, Perfectionism, Self-Care

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Acts of Kindness

As a woman of a certain age, I carry a lot of baggage around the idea of nurturing and caring for others. In my life, it has always been the role and the responsibility of the women in the family to do the bulk of caretaking and nurturing. Not only should I take care of all the emotional, physical, and spiritual needs of the family, I should do it perfectly. I should be able to fix everything,

Certainly a lot of my contemporaries struggle with the same issue. We feel guilty and wrong when we take care of ourselves, or when we ask for help. We assume that we are the only ones who can do things right, so we attempt to do everything ourselves. Then we long to run away to someplace where there is no one to make any more demands on our time or energy. We beat ourselves up when we are tired, cranky, or out of sorts. We speak negatively to ourselves in ways that we would never speak to others. We blame ourselves for everything that goes wrong. In short, we take on the responsibility for the world and blame ourselves when we can’t carry the load.

So what would happen if we were as kind to ourselves as we are to others? What would happen if we rested when we were tired, if we asked for help when we needed it, if we gave ourselves permission to be less than perfect? What would happen if we took time alone to recharge our souls? What would happen if we gave ourselves credit for the good things we have done and let the bad things go? What would happen if we quit the negative self-talk and began to give ourselves “atta girls” for the efforts we have made? What would happen if we treated ourselves as well as we treat others?

So just for today I am going to be kind to myself. I am going to give myself the gift of time for myself, if it is only five minutes of focusing on my Soul. I am going to quit blaming myself for things that are out of my control. I am not going to beat myself up internally or call myself names when I don’t do something perfectly. I am going to forget the shoulds and focus on the I want to’s. I am going to love myself, for it is only when I love myself that I can truly love others.

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I am a seeker of truth, a truth teller, a lover of the Divine Feminine, an aspiring writer, a mystery, an open book, a work in progress. I have lived a long and varied life, and now in my seventies, I am being called to share some of what I have learned over the years. I hope to share the wisdom of the deep Feminine that is being channeled through me.

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