I know some of you are here for the music, and I have a track for you. It’s called Obsolete. I have been combing through archives and found it. It was something I wrote back in 2023. I share it with you all for this month’s installment.
I also know some of you are here for the music, some of my thoughts, and recommendations whether it be books, movies, or shows. Well I have some for you. Thoughts and recommendations that is.
Yet some of you are here to support me, Isa. The artist. And for that I’m so so grateful. Honestly the road of an artist can be lonely. It has these last six months. And I guess its nice to come here and see how many of you download and listen and open the emails I send every month. I can see all of that. Means a lot.
Ok, back to the thoughts + recommendations.
For the last 10 weeks I’ve put myself through a book called The Presence Process by Michael Brown. I won’t get into it a lot now cause I just completed the process on Sunday and in some ways things are still settling inside of me. But I will. And I will do it here because its a good place to do it.
This process is not for the faint. And in fact, if you haven’t gone through some measure of healing or modality of healing, I wouldn’t recommend it. It can either feel like a hug or feel like you’re dying. Whatever it is, it’s what you are ready for. For me it was the latter. More on this later…
I feel like March has always been such a hard month these last several years. I don’t know if it’s cause the seasons are transitioning, planets are shifting, that New Moon or what but all I’ve wanted was for March to be over since it began. It has felt like nothing is working. Everything is hard. The last two weeks alone have been just one devastating loss after another. All of this and I’m in the middle of peak Presence Process. Boy did I want to throw in the towel. But I didn’t. I’m still here plugging away. But I wanted to share some things that I have done to help walk through this last month.
I’ve been good at some things and others not so much. But when I go about it, what I will call practices, they have been a lifeline.
Journaling…but do it in nature.
I know it seems so simple maybe silly even. But one weekend during this hellish month my dear friend came out to visit and we decided to go and sit in front of the river and read, journal, and have spontaneous conversations about Carl Jung and the Feminine and Masculine. It breathed life into me. Until we saw a snake on top of the water headed our way and then we bounced!
Show kindness and compassion to yourself (and if you can’t do that, borrow someone else’s kindness and compassion towards you)
There were moments throughout these last couple weeks that I failed to do that. I could not muster it up for myself. So I received my friend’s kindness and compassion towards me. But when I was able to show myself a little love it was good.
How does one show kindness and compassion to oneself? To think what little we do to tend to ourselves. We give and give and give but when it comes to showing ourselves any kind of compassion, love, and kindness, we stop short.
It can be as simple as getting a massage. Or stopping the negative tape that we play in our minds about ourselves. Or taking care of ourselves by doing a little self-care. For me it was getting on my vibration plate and going to bed early.
Do a little reading.
I received this signed in the mail and it’s one of my favorite series. This was a combination of self-care, hence the face mask, and a moment to sit and read. Instead of sitting in hopelessness. The world is on fire. If I’m not careful, I can get into a very dark place watching all the bad stuff that is happening all around. Truth is, we aren’t meant to take in all the pain and hurt in the world. For me, I need to shut it down so that I keep my sanity. That’s not to say that I’m not aware of some of what’s happening in the world, I just work to not let it dictate how I live my everyday life. So reading a book is a good way to not get totally depressed.
Notice the little things.
These were the little things I noticed on a recent walk. Flowers. And this little guy….
When we stop to notice we stop and realize how much we have, and we turn ourselves over to gratitude.
Go see some movies.
Project Hail Mary and Frozen 2
Elsa is literally me right now. And Project Hail Mary made me cry good. I highly recommend them!
If you have a passion project, work on it. It will bring you LIFE! Don’t let your day job stop you from pursuing it.
