Shiny. Has voice.

Super shiny this morning! She rode the whole way to school!

Before we left she let me know, she actually asked her Daddy to help her to let me know, that she needed me to stay behind her.

That I’m often racing off ahead of her and she feels left behind calling me back. She didn’t want to feel like that while also trying something new and challenging.

Our children tell us what they need from us when they know themselves and know their voices.

We are able to hear them, without taking anything personally, when we know ourselves and our voices.

I spent an hour in my own somatic process this morning, with a wonderful colleague companioning me. Practitioners need their own practitioners, need to work with their own processes too.

I’m working with things that my body has held since I was as old as she is now. It’s beautiful, it’s tough at times but she’s showing me how powerful and valuable creating space for this work is every time she speaks up and tells me something I might not want to hear. Every time she tells me her truth and knows that she is allowed to.