This freeze won't last forever 🌼🌿

I wonder how many of us have similarly preserved our most precious desires and creativity— our Essence, our life force, our true expression— under thick layers of ice, as to keep them safe.

Jan 23, 2024

It's freezing rain where I am, and hanging from the tree branches, ice stalactites are forming. I know underneath these trees are alive and well. I know because I've seen this before. Their roots are deep and in a few short months they will begin to bloom again, offering all of us a relief.

This freeze won't last forever.

As a little girl I'd spend hours alone in my room drawing, painting and writing. I wanted to be an artist. My sisters would play together and I'd shut my door, creating precious works on paper.

Then, I'd take my sacred masterpiece, lay it on a plate, carefully pour water on top and stick it in the freezer— as to frame and preserve it. A young blooming artist, freezing her most prized creations under ice; maybe that way they would last forever.

Isn't this the innocence of children, wanting to protect what matters to them?

Wanting to hide their treasures so no one will find them?

I wonder how many of us have similarly preserved our most precious desires and creativity— our Essence, our life force, our true expression— under thick layers of ice, as to keep them safe.

I wonder how much inside of us wants to bloom, given the right conditions, given time & space to thaw. Maybe an unexpected inner spring emerge.

Maybe, somewhere, I've seen this before…

I wonder how much compassion we might offer ourselves, knowing it makes so much sense for an innocent child to hide your best parts away, to freeze them, preserve them until it was safe to put them on display. Maybe our shadows are brimming with our most vibrant gifts! Maybe it's not only pain trapped inside.

I wonder what generative beauty might bloom as we slowly let this freeze melt. I wonder what conditions might allow a thawing. I wonder who we will find ourselves to be. I wonder if they are beautiful beyond our current comprehension. I wonder…

I am so eager to meet the ones we have tried to hard to keep safe.

I am so eager to meet our masterpiece.

If you feel like you've been hiding, like there is something wanting to come forth from you, like your best, most alive and vital Self is still awaiting you, reflect on these prompts for contemplation:

What do I suspect to be my most succulent, long-standing desire for my life?
Who would I be if I allowed myself to want what I want?
What am I scared to know about myself? What is the truth I'm afraid to admit?
What if in my shadow I wasn't going to find my worst self, but rather the most radiant aspects of me?

This freeze won't last forever.

With love, Madison

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This freeze won't last forever 🌼🌿

I wonder how many of us have similarly preserved our most precious desires and creativity— our Essence, our life force, our true expression— under thick layers of ice, as to keep them safe.

I wonder how many of us have similarly preserved our most precious desires and creativity— our Essence, our life force, our true expression— under thick layers of ice, as to keep them safe.

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