Posted on Instagram on May 23, 2018

Teach me how to face the change with grace.
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Show me how you shed your old skin.
How you do it despite the fear, if you feel any.
Teach me the beauty of sitting with my own discomfort - with that tender new skin that shivers at the gentle breeze.
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Let me see what it is, the sinuous going through vivid grass and fallen leaves, teach me the joy of feeling it all - with luminous, tender new skin, nerve endings alive.
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Let the wisdom of cycles and seasons seep in my essence, so that I can embrace it all, the old, the new, what is gone, what is coming. What is leaving, what needs to leave.
Show me how I can surrender to my own timing, with love, with meaning.
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Teach me about the refuge in the womb of the earth when the time is right, and the pleasure of the surface in the sunshine.
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Show me how I am more than this skin, this brain, this self. How I can slink out of something that doesn't fit me anymore, and still be something.
Show me how new skin is made.
How it's knit together with stardust and shadows and all that is needed. Open my eyes to the the rugged beauty of the process. .
Teach me what it is to be comfortable in my own skin, and how to be uncomfortable in it with grace.
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Snake pendant with raw gemstone.