Healing In Circle

Twice a month, I have the honor of volunteering as a co-host for Healing Circles Global, whose goal is to create safe spaces for people to find refuge and deep healing in community with others.

We aren't there as a therapist, a doctor, or a coach.

We are there as a fellow human being, sharing ourselves, and accompanying you as you share your full self.
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Today's circle, like every circle, was heartening, as I peeled back the layers on my own emotional landscape, and made discoveries that would have passed by, if I hadn't intentionally taken the time to pause and connect in circle.

We finished today's circle with this poem from John O'Donohue:

In out-of-the-way places of the heart,
Where your thoughts never think to wander,
This beginning has been quietly forming,
Waiting until you were ready to emerge.

For a long time it has watched your desire,
Feeling the emptiness growing inside you,
Noticing how you willed yourself on,
Still unable to leave what you had outgrown.

It watched you play with the seduction of safety
And the gray promises that sameness whispered,
Heard the waves of turmoil rise and relent,
Wondered would you always live like this.

Then the delight, when your courage kindled,
And out you stepped onto new ground,
Your eyes young again with energy and dream,
A path of plenitude opening before you.


Though your destination is not yet clear
You can trust the promise of this opening;
Unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning
That is at one with your life's desire.

Awaken your spirit to adventure;
Hold nothing back, learn to find ease in risk;
Soon you will home in a new rhythm,
For your soul senses the world that awaits you.

Do you have a place to go to for refuge and healing?

Originally posted on LinkedIn with comments.​

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