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When you sign up above, your freebies include a few Book Club Q's you might enjoy pondering as you dive into the world of Smoke & Honey.
For example...
Do you think love can disperse an individual’s abilities? If so, when is this worthwhile? Are there times when we need to love differently to achieve personal goals in life?
What question do you think Honey is asking with her life?
Think of your own life as a book or a film. What question are you asking with your life?
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These days I have a heavy work schedule, and have little time to work on my novels, so I'm trying to prioritize completing this series and rarely send out emails. I hope to correspond more again someday! for the time being, here's a letter from a few years ago that my readers enjoyed.
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” - Carl Jung
Hi travelers,
Things I’m reading and thinking about this week:
Journaling!
The below is a bit of a yellow brick road. It really helped me recently. I hope it can help you, too. I’m continuing to work with Byron Katie’s classic 4 questions. Her method is available for free here - I can’t recommend it enough.
This week, I had a breakthrough with it. Most of our peers are pregnant or have small children, and of course people want to know our own plans around this. We’ve had three losses, as I’ve mentioned before; I have several auto-immune diseases, which I’ve been able to bring more or less into remission. Still, Western medicine doesn’t understand why these things happen, and so the root cause may still be in me.
For years I’ve blamed myself, subconsciously & consciously, for having these things. But recently, sadly, yet another woman in my family was diagnosed with it. So now I’m trying to do the harder work of just being honest with myself, that this is not something that I caused. Something I can ‘fix’. And I’m trying to practice more gratitude for getting to be alive a while longer, when not so very long ago, I would have died when I was twenty.
All this to say, children may be in our future, but not via the orthodox route, and therefore not anytime soon. So these questions, when people push, invariably make me feel angry and sad. But I’ve realized through Byron Katie’s work that I actually feel angry and sad at my body.
Moreover, I had no idea that ‘I’ felt this way. I’ve suppressed it that much - I have disallowed myself that much. But once I realized it, I didn’t know what to do with it.
Baker, a huge fan of Eckhart Tolle, mentioned the ‘pain body’ to me, a concept I wasn’t at all familiar with. (She's been a guest on my podcast; if you have'n't had a chance to listen yet, please do! She’s a radiant human - in large part because she has walked through fire, and continues to do so, in order to exist on the vibration she does. Baker, you are so wonderful and I absolutely love you; it is an honor to help put your story out into the world!)
I looked it up, and found a wonderful exercise to heal your emotional pain body - witness, observe, let it be. And then perhaps… try painting or drawing what you see.
So I did!
Hi travelers,
Things I’m reading and thinking about this week:
Journaling!
The below is a bit of a yellow brick road. It really helped me recently. I hope it can help you, too. I’m continuing to work with Byron Katie’s classic 4 questions. Her method is available for free here - I can’t recommend it enough.
This week, I had a breakthrough with it. Most of our peers are pregnant or have small children, and of course people want to know our own plans around this. We’ve had three losses, as I’ve mentioned before; I have several auto-immune diseases, which I’ve been able to bring more or less into remission. Still, Western medicine doesn’t understand why these things happen, and so the root cause may still be in me.
For years I’ve blamed myself, subconsciously & consciously, for having these things. But recently, sadly, yet another woman in my family was diagnosed with it. So now I’m trying to do the harder work of just being honest with myself, that this is not something that I caused. Something I can ‘fix’. And I’m trying to practice more gratitude for getting to be alive a while longer, when not so very long ago, I would have died when I was twenty.
All this to say, children may be in our future, but not via the orthodox route, and therefore not anytime soon. So these questions, when people push, invariably make me feel angry and sad. But I’ve realized through Byron Katie’s work that I actually feel angry and sad at my body.
Moreover, I had no idea that ‘I’ felt this way. I’ve suppressed it that much - I have disallowed myself that much. But once I realized it, I didn’t know what to do with it.
Baker, a huge fan of Eckhart Tolle, mentioned the ‘pain body’ to me, a concept I wasn’t at all familiar with. (She's been a guest on my podcast; if you have'n't had a chance to listen yet, please do! She’s a radiant human - in large part because she has walked through fire, and continues to do so, in order to exist on the vibration she does. Baker, you are so wonderful and I absolutely love you; it is an honor to help put your story out into the world!)
I looked it up, and found a wonderful exercise to heal your emotional pain body - witness, observe, let it be. And then perhaps… try painting or drawing what you see.
So I did!
(Hehe, this is your permission to keep things simple.)
Doodling it helped me really be with it. To see it better. And as I paused for a moment, just letting it be there, not pretending it doesn’t exist - not trying to change it - I felt the tiniest shift. The tiniest bit more ease. And newly, a deeper presence with my wonderful mama friends. My Steel Magnolias :)
Also so beautiful if you are interested in this work: This exercise, and this poem
Blessings for your journey!!
love & stories,
Paula
EveningsKingdom.com
Doodling it helped me really be with it. To see it better. And as I paused for a moment, just letting it be there, not pretending it doesn’t exist - not trying to change it - I felt the tiniest shift. The tiniest bit more ease. And newly, a deeper presence with my wonderful mama friends. My Steel Magnolias :)
Also so beautiful if you are interested in this work: This exercise, and this poem
Blessings for your journey!!
love & stories,
Paula
EveningsKingdom.com