navigating liminal space; opening march books

Before jumping into my musings, let it be known: my March books are open! I'm trying a little something different. To honor my current capacity, better plan ahead, and be present with you, I'm creating a specific window of time for when you can book sessions for the month:

Deadline to schedule March sessions is Tuesday, March 18th. Book now. April booking opens Monday, March 31st and ends on Monday, April 7th.

Note that you can still schedule sessions for any available date throughout the month, there is just a designated period of time to do so. Sessions are still currently virtual and/or by phone. If you have any questions, you can email me or schedule a free consultation. 

My friend jenn huynh captured me mid-thought and in between days, just before I moved out of Florida

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I arrive here feeling a little more connected to my feet and the ground than I did when I wrote my last update. This is a welcome shift after spending weeks feeling windswept and dislocated in response to the fires and subsequent displacement (you can still find resources and ways to support here). Several strange and beautiful parts of Southern California have held me in the meantime, and I was finally able to land in one place until I can return to my house. 

While I am no longer in fight or flight mode, I am in a liminal space — an uncomfortable, tricky, confusing, wondrous, and fertile place to be. I am left with questions about how best to be in relationship with and locate myself within this land I now call home. A part of me who craves certainty and resists change wants to force answers, dismissing this in-between as a moment to quickly push past. Another part of me feels stalled and anxious for clear directions.

And then, there's the hypnotist in me, holding this moment with reverence. When clients are ready for hypnosis, they are typically already at some kind of threshold — feeling a dissonance among what was, is, and can be. They are ready for change or in the process of changing. The “in-between” or trance state can serve as a sacred bridge to or process of deeper communion with ourselves — in all of our yearnings and fears. It can serve as an opening in between worlds. Or an invitation (initiation?) into that which does not yet have a name and is still taking shape / shaping us. 

This verse from Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower comes to mind:

God is Change.
God is Infinite,
Irresistible,
Inexorable,
Indifferent.
God is Trickster,
Teacher,
Chaos,
Clay—
God is Change.
Beware:
God exists to shape
And to be shaped. 

Leaving you with a few in-session observations on navigating liminality that feel generative for this moment:

— Liminal space has its own rhythm and flow, challenging our previously held perceptions of self and time

— Here, we are invited to be accountable for how we respond to and create narratives around our experiences

— Moving with curiosity, care, and patience allows for more receptivity and flow

— Our intuition and senses offer us important, often overlooked information — beyond what intellect alone can perceive

— When we experience resistance, confusion, or discomfort, we might actually be at the threshold of new awareness

— Naming your fears and desires liberates them, allowing them room to evolve

With fierce care,
Kristen 

PS — what the ebb tide sounds like, and what the liminal moment currently tastes like.

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