And so it is. Today feels like the first time I am really committed to ceremony and practice around this holiday, Yule. I am celebrating the darkness in the light. It’s truly a metaphor for my life right now, having had some of the darkest moments of healing coming up right now in my later adult life. I’ve been fighting for the light, and reflecting on this holiday really feels potent given it’s meaning. 🌟 I thought I may be done fighting the battles inside until I became a mother and all the supressed trauma rose to the surface. So today I am honoring myself and everyone else doing the grueling, tormenting work that true “sitting with darkness” type of Healing can be. Honor yourself on this day of darkness and light. Honor your courage and bravery to keep going because there is no other way. We only get through to the light if we sit in the dark. THAT is the power of Winter. Bright Solstice To You 🌙💙🌙 🌟 “There is a fragile and luminous beauty at this time of year like no other. It is a bone-deep beauty, the beauty of bare rock glowing with light. We find that, as the pretty decorations fall away, what we are left with is beautiful indeed: the shapes of trees, each perfect and distinct, the undulation of the hills beneath a covering of snow. 🌟 And there is a wonderful bravery in each of us that rises again and again to live, despite our death-dealing culture. We struggle every day, each in our own way, to proclaim the coming of the light out of the darkest time imaginable. 🌟 We are all yule lights shining in the darkness.” ~ Cait Johnson + Maura Shaw #yule #winter #solstice #brightyule #darkness #light #healing #courage #restorativeharmony #restorativeharmonyacupuncture #restorativeharmonyalchemy https://www.instagram.com/p/BrqkVIMDzsS/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=5qd82zxbtwrp