Learning to Stop

Ignatian Examen of Consciousness

Quick Event Reminder

Online Soul Care Group: Tuesday September 12th 10-11am PST.

I will lead you through the below Ignatian Examen followed by optional breakout groups. Sign up ASAP to make sure you get the zoom info.

Reflection as a Way to Go Home

“A woman has to go away and be with herself and look into how she came to be trapped in a '[great healer] archetype to begin with. The basic wild instinct that determines ‘only this far and no farther, only this much and no more’ must be retrieved and developed. This is how a woman keeps her bearings. It is preferable to go home for a while, even if it causes others to be irritated, rather than to stay and deteriorate, and then finally crawl away in tatters.”

 ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Women Who Run With the Wolves

One way we practice Returning to our Soul Home is through intentional reflection and letting go. We need to examine how we become trapped in cycles of addiction, patterns of helping, and not paying attention to our bodies.

Underneath our drivenness may be a still small voice saying, STOP. You are worth more than this.

You are not what you do.

You are not what others think of you,

or say about you,

or feel about you.

You are not what you feel.

Your worth doesn’t depend

on helping others

or being accepted

or how many likes your post gets.

We need to slow down and reflect, to look at how we are trapped, to go away and be with ourselves as Clarissa Pinkola Estes invites, to stop the music.