For all ebook purchases, you will be prompted to create an account or login with your existing HarperCollins username and password. At times I envision the process of coming home as a journey through rivers and valleys, over mountain tops and through forest. If we take good care of this moment, even if it is very difficult, we are taking good care of the future. Ultimately, shadow work marks the beginning of the end and is a turning point on the spiritual path.

Life is messy like this – so full of experiences that we’d never, ever choose for ourselves or wish upon another but also, somehow, tangled up with beauty. We gather these lost pieces back to us only once, so, as spiritual teacher Matt Kahn says, „Whatever arises… Love that. The center of the nest can remain empty allowing room for whatever would like to come back to you, or you can place a symbol like a stone in your nest to as place markers. Its symptoms were nervousness and melancholy, and unfortunately for patients, doctors argued there really was no cure, other than simply to “go home” and see if it passed. As your sense of care and love for this small symbol of your soul grows, notice how parts of yourself you had forgotten arise in your awareness now feeling safe enough to come back in.It is said that during traumatic experiences pieces of our soul become so frightened that they scatter. I became my own best friend, decided to approve of myself – to like and love all of me – I found my voice and put down deep, strong roots of self-compassion. Indulging in long hours of practices as a way of trying to fundamentally change who we are, is often a camouflage for lack of self-worth or even self-hatred. Those plans, worries, and anxieties will surely arise in our mind, but we can learn to notice them and take good care of them rather than feed them and get pulled away by them. So how do we begin walking back around the outer reaches of the spiral towards the center gathering the pieces of ourselves as we go?

What we are actually doing is re-establishing these qualities and the energy inherent in them, to our psyche.To access your ebook(s) after purchasing, you can download the free Glose app or read instantly on your browser by logging into Glose. So I was tasting the earth with my feet, listening to it, looking at it, feeling it, knowing it, smelling it with my feet. In her second collection of published writing, Déjà Rae explores the highs and lows of letting go of past relationships and embracing loneliness as a means to discover oneself. There this feeling of being homesick is simply an experience along a soul’s journey, and our awareness of it becomes a turning point.