Messy times
Bury our heads in the sand? Run away? On a mass, existential scale things are getting very messy indeed. And neither of those approaches , ignore or run, are going to give us much of a future.
But trying to face those big concerns when we can’t even manage our own mess is not going to get us very far.
We have to start with our own lives first.
Clean up our own act.
And we do that by facing down our own mess.
How do we do that?
My Brave New Girl podcast guest this week Samantha Lourie has written a book on the subject.
She reveals the power of mess to transform our lives, our communities and our planet.
THE POWER OF MESS
A guide to finding joy and resilience when life feels chaotic. .
Samantha Lourie is a free-spirit poet, artist and author of The Power of Mess, a guide to finding joy and resilience when life feels chaotic.
She believes that when we are more at peace within, we become more aware of ourselves and our connection to our immediate environment and to the planet as a whole.
The power of mess is like a homecoming. A homecoming back to yourself, to gathering a sense of changeable control over your life where your resilience and sense of self is sharpened and you are more present to the whole of life because of it.
More present and therefore more responsive. It's in this responsiveness that your sense of the world subsequently gets into working order as well.
You start to notice things you would have just walked past a few years or seasons back because of being in the heart of overwhelm without a toolkit or support system to navigate through it.
We become more available, accessible and self-responsible in our relationships with our bodies, our homes, the people we love and live with, our neighbourhoods and this new dynamic to live from continues to spread outward to our Planet Earth.
Essentially, in this growing sense of belonging and active participation, we create and continue the regenerating properties in not just being alive but feeling alive and fully living while we are here.
Thanks so much Samantha for giving us a way to face the messy stuff in ourselves, so that we can create flourishing lives, communities and planet.
You can find out more about Samantha’s work on Facebook @Butterfliesandpebbles or follow her on Instagram @butterfliesandpebbles
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