Dearest protectors, Thank you for your fierce loyalty and your devotion to keeping the most precious parts of us safe. Thank you for the care you bring in maintaining the field each of our unique souls has created. Thank you for loving so deeply that you have tried to ensure nothing could ever harm our tender hearts. And yet, it feels like time to let something go. To soften the belief that lowering your walls means losing something. That allowing these precious parts to trul

What if healing is not actually about getting rid of parts of yourself? This feels like one of the deepest distinctions in any healing process. So much healing work, even in conscious and spiritual spaces, is still subtly (or overtly) oriented around elimination. Release the wound. Clear the trauma. Purge the emotion. Transcend the ego. Heal the inner child. Become untriggered. And beneath much of it is often an unconscious question: “How do I stop being affected by this part