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Kerryn Slater is a Self Discovery Coach and Spiritual Alchemist devoted to guiding women back to themselves — to self-love, self-acceptance, and the deep inner knowing of who they truly are. With over 30 years on her own path of self-discovery, personal and spiritual growth, and more than a decade supporting others, Kerryn holds space for women to gently release limiting beliefs, reconnect with their inner wisdom, and embody their truth with clarity and confidence. Her work integrates ThetaHealing® and the Thrive Factor Archetype Framework®, creating powerful transformation at the level of the subconscious and identity. Through this approach, women are supported not just to change their lives — but to understand who they are at their core and how they are uniquely designed to think, feel, and thrive. Kerryn offers Self Discovery Coaching, energy healing, soul readings, meditation, and transformational retreats for women ready to deepen their connection to themselves and step into their next chapter with confidence and alignment. She is the founder of Holistic Essentials Therapy & Consulting, co-leads international retreats through Thriving Women Retreats, is a co-author of The Souls Rising, and a regular contributor to OracleMe Magazine.

Perhaps you’ve been curious about learning Reiki, but weren’t quite sure whether it was for you.Maybe you’ve experienced...
12/10/2026

Perhaps you’ve been curious about learning Reiki, but weren’t quite sure whether it was for you.

Maybe you’ve experienced Reiki yourself and wondered what it would be like to learn the practice.

Perhaps you’ve been exploring your intuition, your connection with Source, or ways of supporting your own energetic wellbeing.

Or maybe there’s simply a curiosity you haven’t quite been able to explain.

One of the things I love most about teaching Reiki is that people arrive for so many different reasons.

Some are seeking a deeper relationship with themselves.

Some want to develop their intuition and spiritual awareness.

Others feel called to support people through healing work.

And some arrive without knowing exactly why they’ve been drawn to the experience.

You don’t need to identify as a healer to learn Reiki.

You don’t need previous experience.

And you certainly don’t need to know whether you’ll ever practise professionally.

For me, Reiki has always been about much more than learning a healing modality.

It is about cultivating a relationship.

With yourself.
With your own energy and intuition.
With the world around you.
And with the infinite intelligence of the universe, however you understand or experience that connection.

Ascension Reiki brings another beautiful dimension to this practice through its connection with the Angelic Realm.

During our two days together, you’ll experience the Ascension Reiki Levels 1 & 2 attunements, learn to work with the Reiki symbols, explore self-healing and distance healing, and develop your confidence through practical experience.

You’ll also receive the Angelic attunement, Karma clearing and Angelic cleansing that form part of this beautiful system.

And should you choose to share Reiki professionally, you’ll complete the training with your Levels 1 & 2 practitioner certificate.

But perhaps the most important thing I want you to know is this:

You are welcome to begin simply because you feel curious.

You don’t have to know where the journey will lead.

Sometimes the first invitation is simply to explore.

💗 ASCENSION REIKI | PERTH

Levels 1 & 2 Certification
Saturday 7 & Sunday 8 November 2026
Perth, Western Australia
Venue to be announced

Investment: $695
$100 deposit to secure your place
Payment plans available on request.

I’ll be returning to Perth by invitation from my beautiful friend Shannon Dunn, and I would love to share this experience with you.

You can explore the training and reserve your place through the booking link below.

https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=12520473&appointmentType=22345619

And if you have questions, please reach out. I’m always happy to have a conversation.

Big Love,
Kerryn 💚


💌 YOUR WEEKLY ENERGY GUIDANCE HAS ARRIVED!12–18 October 2026When Knowing Becomes LivingThere comes a point in our self-d...
11/10/2026

💌 YOUR WEEKLY ENERGY GUIDANCE HAS ARRIVED!
12–18 October 2026
When Knowing Becomes Living

There comes a point in our self-discovery journey when we realise we may not need another answer.

Sometimes we already know.
The question becomes whether we're ready to allow that knowing to become part of how we live.

This week, Venus retrograde invites us to revisit our values, relationships and self-worth, while Pluto turning direct and the supportive connection between Mars and Saturn encourage us to explore what it means to embody our inner wisdom.

And our Goddess of the week? 🪷

🔥Sekhmet — the fierce warrior and healer.
Oh, and she was VERY determined to make her presence known! 😂

Her message is powerful:
Stop making yourself smaller to make other people comfortable.
You are allowed to grow, evolve and stand fully in who you are.

💗 The full guidance, Goddess wisdom, journal prompts, affirmations and Sacred Pause are now waiting in your inbox.

🎥 Not a subscriber?
You can watch or listen to this week's guidance over on YouTube:
👉https://youtu.be/cDaAwMAyiwE

And as for me, I'm heading off on a little New Zealand adventure, finally ticking Queenstown and Milford Sound off my bucket list! ✈️💗

Apparently this week's theme is being lived quite literally. 🫢

Big Love,
Kerryn xx

🌑 LIBRA NEW MOON | 11 OCTOBER 2026What does harmony look like when it no longer requires you to abandon yourself?Libra i...
09/10/2026

🌑 LIBRA NEW MOON | 11 OCTOBER 2026

What does harmony look like when it no longer requires you to abandon yourself?

Libra invites us into relationship — into balance, reciprocity, connection, compromise and the beautiful meeting place between self and other.

But sometimes what looks like harmony from the outside has been created by somebody continually giving way on the inside.

Keeping the peace can masquerade as harmony.
Compromise can become self-abandonment.
Caring for another can quietly become taking responsibility for their emotional experience.

And being “easygoing” can sometimes mean our own needs never quite make it into the room.

This New Moon invites us to explore another possibility.

There can be an us without either person disappearing.
We can love deeply without leaving ourselves.
We can honour another person’s needs while remembering our own.
We can hold different perspectives without requiring one person to surrender theirs.
We can create boundaries that support connection rather than prevent it.

Because relationship doesn’t require the elimination of space.
And belonging together doesn’t require becoming indistinguishable from one another.

🌑 NEW MOON PRACTICE
Create some quiet space and reflect on the relationships in your life — including the relationship you have with yourself.

Ask:
♡ Where do I feel free to be fully myself?
♡ Where do I notice myself becoming smaller to maintain connection?
♡ Where am I giving from love — and where might I be giving from fear, obligation or approval?
♡ What would greater reciprocity look like for me?

Then, rather than only asking:
What do I want to manifest?

Try asking:
What am I willing to participate in creating?

And perhaps the deeper question:
Am I willing to live in a way that supports my answer?

🌑 NEW MOON AFFIRMATIONS

I belong to myself within the relationships I choose.
My needs and the needs of others can coexist.
I allow myself to give and receive with greater reciprocity.
I can honour my truth without requiring another person to agree with it.
I consciously participate in creating relationships where connection does not require self-abandonment.

Perhaps your intention beneath all the others this New Moon can be beautifully simple:
May I meet others without leaving myself.

Big Love
Kerryn xx 💗
Exploring what it means to belong to yourself.

What you're capable of and what you have capacity for today are not always the same thing.I think sometimes we place unn...
07/10/2026

What you're capable of and what you have capacity for today are not
always the same thing.

I think sometimes we place unnecessary pressure on ourselves because we know what we're capable of.

We know what we've achieved before.
We know how much we can manage when we're focused, energised and everything seems to be flowing.
We know how capable, resourceful and committed we can be.

And then along comes a day when we simply don't have the same energy, attention or emotional availability.

And suddenly we begin questioning ourselves.
Why can't I get everything done today?
I've managed more than this before.
I know I'm capable of doing this.

And perhaps we are.

But capability and capacity aren't necessarily the same thing.

Capability speaks to what we have the ability, knowledge or experience to do.
Capacity speaks to what we genuinely have available to give in this particular moment.

And that can change.

Sometimes our capacity is being used to navigate something difficult.
Supporting someone we love.
Moving through grief or uncertainty.
Managing responsibilities that require more of us than usual.

Sometimes our bodies simply need something different from us.
But here's something I think we often overlook.

Our capacity isn't only used by the difficult things in life.

Sometimes it's being used by the beautiful things.
Spending time with family.
Having those long, meaningful conversations with people we love.
Celebrating something wonderful.
Travelling somewhere we've dreamed of visiting.
Being present for moments we know we won't get back.

And sometimes we arrive at the end of a day having accomplished very little of what we'd planned, yet having participated fully in something that mattered
enormously to us.

Not everything that uses our energy is taking something from us. Some things are worthy of the energy we choose to give them.

And perhaps this is where we can begin to meet ourselves with a little more understanding.

Because knowing we're capable of something doesn't automatically mean we have to demonstrate that capability every single day.

We can be capable and tired.
Committed and temporarily unavailable.
Creative and uninspired.
Present for others and still need time for ourselves.
We can care deeply about our work and recognise that today our attention belongs somewhere else.

None of these things automatically makes us less capable.

And recognising our capacity doesn't mean abandoning our commitments or avoiding the things that matter.

Sometimes it means having an honest conversation.
Asking for support.
Adjusting a timeframe.
Choosing what genuinely needs our attention now and what can wait.
Or recognising that what we have available today is different from what we had yesterday.

Honouring your capacity isn't deciding what you're capable of. It's recognising what you have available right now.

There's a difference.
And I think it's an important one.

Because when we continually measure ourselves against our greatest capacity, we can begin treating our ordinary human fluctuations as personal shortcomings.

As though every day should look like our most productive day.
Every conversation should receive our fullest attention.
Every commitment should be met with the same enthusiasm.
Every part of our life should have access to the very best of us, all of the time.

But that's not how being human works.

Our capacity is not a character assessment.
It doesn't determine our worth.
It doesn't measure how much we care.
And it doesn't tell the whole story of what we're capable of.

Perhaps some days we will have an enormous amount to give.

Other days, considerably less.

And sometimes we'll choose to give our energy to experiences that don't produce anything measurable at all.

Because we aren't here simply to demonstrate our capabilities.
We're here to participate in our lives.
And living asks different things of us at different times.

So perhaps the invitation isn't always to ask ourselves how much more we could manage.

Sometimes it's simply to recognise what is genuinely available.
To honour what matters.
To make conscious choices about where our energy goes.
And to allow ourselves to be human within all of it.

What you're capable of and what you have capacity for today are not always
the same thing.

And you don't have to question your capability every time your capacity changes.

Big love,
Kerryn 🤍

You are allowed to change what matters most in this moment without changing what matters to you.Our priorities aren't al...
06/10/2026

You are allowed to change what matters most in this moment without changing what matters to you.

Our priorities aren't always fixed.

They change with circumstances.
With relationships.
With responsibilities.
With what life places in front of us.

There are days when our work needs our attention.
Days when someone we love needs support.
Times when family is around and being present with them matters more than completing what we'd planned.
Moments when nurturing a relationship becomes more important than answering the emails, finishing the job or ticking something off the list.

And then there are moments when the space opens again and something else naturally moves forward.

None of this necessarily means we've become inconsistent.
The priority changes. The value doesn't.

Something can remain deeply important to us without needing to be the most important thing in every moment.

I think sometimes we create unnecessary pressure for ourselves because we confuse commitment with constancy.

If this matters to me, shouldn't I always be prioritising it?
If I said I would do this, shouldn't I follow the plan?
If I've committed to something, shouldn't I be more consistent?

Sometimes, yes.
Commitment matters.
Consistency can matter.
Our responsibilities don't disappear simply because something else has caught our attention.

But life isn't lived under controlled conditions.
People need us.
Circumstances change.
Opportunities arise.
Bodies get tired.
Relationships need tending.
Beautiful moments appear that we hadn't scheduled.

And sometimes the thing we thought would matter most today simply... doesn't.

A changing priority isn't necessarily evidence of inconsistency. Sometimes it's evidence that you're paying attention.

There is a difference between consciously responding to life and continually abandoning yourself in response to everyone else's needs.

That's an important distinction.

Meeting life where it is doesn't mean everybody else automatically becomes the priority.

Nor does flexibility mean having no boundaries, direction or commitment.
It means we remain part of the decision.

Presence allows us to notice what this moment is asking.
Inner authority allows us to choose how we respond.

Perhaps that's what I like about the idea of pivoting, even if the coaching world has almost loved that word to death. 😂

A pivot doesn't necessarily mean abandoning where you were going.
Sometimes it simply means recognising that the way you're moving through this particular moment needs to change.

And perhaps we can do that without immediately putting ourselves on trial.
Without deciding we've fallen behind.
Without turning yesterday's unfinished list into today's burden.
Without demanding that every day honour our values in exactly the same way.

We can reassess.
We can choose again.

We can ask:
What matters now?
Not What should matter?
Not What did I think would matter when I made the plan?
But:
Given what is actually here, what matters to me now?
And tomorrow, the answer may change again.
That doesn't necessarily make today's choice less true.

Perhaps flexibility isn't abandoning the plan.
Sometimes it's remaining in relationship with yourself while responding to the life that's actually happening.

Because living from within was never meant to remove us from the changing circumstances of being human.

It allows us to meet those circumstances consciously.
To recognise what matters.
To honour our capacity.
To consider the people we love.
To remember ourselves within the equation.
And then choose.
Again and again, as life unfolds.

You are allowed to change what matters most in this moment without changing what matters to you.

Big love,
Kerryn 🤍

🔮 Your Weekly Energy Guidance has landed 🔮What are you willing to participate in creating — and are you willing to live ...
04/10/2026

🔮 Your Weekly Energy Guidance has landed 🔮

What are you willing to participate in creating — and are you willing to live in a way that supports your answer?

This week we move through the 10/10 energetic gateway into the Libra New Moon, exploring manifestation as co-creation, completion becoming initiation, and what it means to create greater harmony without abandoning ourselves in the process.

And our Goddess for the week? Lilith. 🔥
Honestly, she could not have been more perfectly timed.

Your guidance is waiting in your inbox now 💗

Prefer to watch or listen? This week’s Energy Guidance is also available on YouTube — and YES, the recording has sound. 😂🎙️
https://youtu.be/XwoQaRDMIgs

Big Love
Kerryn xx

There is a version of belonging to yourself that asks nothing of you except your own presence.So much of our lives is ex...
03/10/2026

There is a version of belonging to yourself that asks nothing of you except your own presence.

So much of our lives is experienced through what we are doing.
There are people we love.
Responsibilities we carry.
Things that need our attention.
Places to be.
Conversations to have.
Lives we are actively participating in.

And there is nothing inherently wrong with any of that.
We are here to participate in our lives.

But perhaps there are also moments when life isn't asking us to solve, achieve, understand or become anything at all.
Moments when nothing needs to be worked out.
Nothing needs to be healed.
Nothing needs to become meaningful.
Nothing needs to be turned into a lesson.

Perhaps sometimes we can simply be where we are.
Drink the coffee.
Feel the sun.
Listen to the ocean.
Watch the light change.
Notice the breeze.
Allow a moment to be a moment without asking it to become something more.

I think sometimes we become so accustomed to meeting ourselves through what we are doing that we forget there is also a relationship available to us beneath all of those roles.
Not the capable version of you.
Not the productive version.
Not the healing version.
Not the version trying to understand herself more deeply.
Just...
you.

And perhaps there is something quietly beautiful about discovering that you don't disappear when nothing is being asked of you.
You are still here.
Your life is still happening.
You are still participating in it.

Not through what you are producing or achieving or offering.
But through your presence within it.

Perhaps this is another expression of belonging to yourself.
Not constantly asking:
What do I need?
What am I feeling?
What am I learning?
Who am I becoming?

Those questions have their place.
But sometimes even self-discovery can become another thing we're doing.

And perhaps every now and then we are allowed to put the questions down.
No fixing.
No becoming.
No analysis.
No need to turn the moment into evidence that we're growing.

Just the experience of being alive inside our own life.
Who are you when nothing is being asked of you?

Perhaps you don't need to answer that either.
Perhaps you can simply find out by being there.

And perhaps that is enough.

Big love,
Kerryn 🤍

You are allowed to discover who you are when an old way of being is no longer required of you.Over time, we become very ...
01/10/2026

You are allowed to discover who you are when an old way of being is no longer required of you.

Over time, we become very good at being certain versions of ourselves.
The capable one.
The independent one.
The caretaker.
The peacemaker.
The achiever.
The one who keeps everything together.

Sometimes those ways of being developed because life required something of us.
Sometimes they helped us navigate difficult circumstances.
Sometimes they created safety, belonging or stability.
And sometimes they're simply qualities that genuinely belong to us.

I think that's an important distinction.
Because we don't need to turn every characteristic we've developed into evidence of something that needs healing.

Not everything about us is a wound response.

Sometimes you're independent because you've learned not to rely on anyone.
And sometimes you're independent because you genuinely enjoy your autonomy.

Sometimes you're organised because uncertainty once felt difficult.
And sometimes you just really like a spreadsheet.

Sometimes caring for everyone around you comes from believing their needs matter more than yours.
And sometimes you're simply a deeply caring person.

Perhaps the question isn't always:
Where did this come from?

Sometimes another question might be equally valuable:
Does this still feel like me — and do I still choose it?

Because something interesting can happen when we've been a particular way for a very long time.

What we repeatedly do can gradually become what we believe we are.
I handle everything myself becomes I'm the one who doesn't need help.
I keep everyone happy becomes I'm the peacemaker.
I always cope becomes I'm the strong one.
I achieve becomes I'm driven.

And none of those identities are necessarily false.
They may genuinely be part of who we are.

But perhaps they don't have to account for all that we are.
Yesterday we explored the possibility that we can honour what has shaped us while remaining open to who we are beyond it.

Perhaps today we can take that curiosity one step further.
Is this who I am — or is this who I became very good at being?

And maybe the answer is:
Both.
I may be strong.
And I may also be tired.
I may value independence.
And I may also want support.
I may love caring for others.
And I may also need to be cared for.
I may be capable of holding enormous responsibility.
And I may also want moments when nothing is required of me.

One truth doesn't cancel the other.
And discovering another part of ourselves doesn't require us to reject the part we've already known.
We don't have to dismantle who we've become.
We don't have to decide an old way of being was unhealthy simply because we're becoming curious about something different.
And we certainly don't need to manufacture a new identity to prove we've grown.

Perhaps awareness simply gives us something we may not have had before:
choice.
The opportunity to notice when we're responding from habit and when we're responding from what actually feels true for us now.
To recognise that something which was once automatic might now become conscious.

And perhaps to discover that a way of being can remain available to us without remaining required of us.

A way of being can remain available to you without remaining required of you.
You can still be strong without always having to be the strong one.
You can still be independent and allow yourself to receive.
You can still care deeply without assuming responsibility for everybody around you.
You can still be capable without proving your capability every time life presents an opportunity.

Nothing needs to be thrown away.
Perhaps we're simply creating more room around who we've already become.

Because the goal isn't to dismantle who you are.
It's to discover where habit ends and choice begins.

And sometimes that discovery may sound surprisingly simple:
I know how to be this.
I've been this for a very long time.
It is part of me.

But I don't have to be this in every moment anymore.

There can be enormous freedom in that.
Not the freedom of becoming somebody entirely different.
The freedom of having access to more of yourself.

🪷 Something to Consider

Is there a way of being you've practised for so long that it has begun to feel like the only way you know how to be?
You don't need to change it.
You don't need to diagnose it.
You don't even need to understand where it came from.

Perhaps simply notice:
Does this still feel like me — and do I still choose it?

Because you are allowed to discover who you are when an old way of being is no longer required of you.

Big love,
Kerryn 🤍

You can honour what has shaped you while remaining open to who you are beyond it.Everything we live becomes part of us i...
01/10/2026

You can honour what has shaped you while remaining open to who you are beyond it.

Everything we live becomes part of us in some way.

The people we've loved.
The things we've lost.
The roles we've carried.
The choices we've made.
The experiences we would choose again in a heartbeat — and those we never would.

Some experiences pass through our lives quietly.
Others change us profoundly.
They influence what we believe, how we relate, what we fear, what we value, the boundaries we create and sometimes even how we understand ourselves.

To acknowledge that isn't to give the past too much power.
It's simply to honour the reality that living changes us.

But something can shape us without accounting for all that we are.
And I think there is an important distinction there.

Because sometimes an experience becomes so significant that we begin to organise parts of our identity around it.
We become the strong one.
The one who holds everything together.
The caretaker.
The peacemaker.
The one who doesn't need anyone.
The one who survives.

And perhaps, at one point, those ways of being were exactly what we needed.

They may have protected us.
Helped us cope.
Given us a sense of safety.
Allowed us to navigate circumstances with the resources we had available at the time.

We don't need to judge those versions of ourselves for how they learned to move through the world.

But perhaps, every now and then, we can become curious about whether everything we learned to be is still everything we need to be.

Not because those parts of us are wrong.
And not because healing requires us to leave them behind.
But because we are allowed to discover that there is more to us than what life once required from us.

Perhaps you've spent years being strong.
That doesn't mean strength needs to be the only way you know how to exist.

Perhaps you've learned to be fiercely independent.
That doesn't mean receiving support threatens who you are.

Perhaps you became extraordinarily good at anticipating everybody else's needs.
That doesn't mean your own needs must remain somewhere at the bottom of the list.

Perhaps an experience changed you profoundly.
You don't need to minimise its significance in order to discover who else you are.

You can honour what has shaped you without allowing it to define all of who you are.

And I think this is where becoming becomes particularly interesting.
Because perhaps becoming isn't always about adding something new.

Sometimes it is discovering who we are when an old way of being is no longer required to occupy quite so much space.

There may be parts of ourselves we haven't had much opportunity to know yet.
The playful part.
The receptive part.
The adventurous part.
The creative part.
The part that rests.
The part that changes her mind.
The part that doesn't always know.
The part that allows somebody else to carry something for a while.

Not new versions we need to manufacture.
Perhaps simply aspects of ourselves that finally have enough room to be experienced.

And there is no timeline for this.
Sometimes what shaped us will continue to shape us.
Sometimes an old role will still be useful.
Sometimes we will return to familiar ways of being because they remain part of us.

This isn't about stripping away identities until we discover some perfectly healed, untouched version underneath.

I don't believe that's what being human asks of us.

It's simply an invitation to remain curious.
Who else am I?
Who am I beyond what happened?
Beyond what I needed to become?
Beyond the roles I've become so practised at playing that I sometimes forget they are roles at all?

Perhaps we don't have to know the answers.
Perhaps it's enough to leave the door open.

Because what shaped you deserves to be honoured.
But it doesn't require ownership of your entire identity.
You can honour what has shaped you while remaining open to who you are beyond it.

🪷 Something to Consider

Is there a way of being that once supported or protected you, but perhaps no longer needs to define quite so much of who you are?

Not something you need to get rid of.
Simply something you might become curious about.

Because perhaps the question isn't always:
Who do I need to become?

Sometimes it might simply be:
Who else am I allowed to discover?

Big love,
Kerryn 🤍

You don't have to change what happenedto change your relationship with what happened.There are things in our lives we ca...
28/09/2026

You don't have to change what happened
to change your relationship with what happened.

There are things in our lives we cannot change.
Something happened.
Someone made a choice.
We made a choice.
Something ended.
Something was lost.
We experienced something we would never have chosen for ourselves.

And sometimes, particularly within healing and personal development spaces, there can be an unspoken expectation that eventually we should arrive at a place where we're somehow okay with what happened.

That if we've truly healed, we'll have forgiven.
Found the lesson.
Discovered the gift.
Made peace with it.
Perhaps even become grateful for it.

But I don't believe healing requires that of us.

Some things that happen to us are simply not okay.

Healing doesn't require us to pretend otherwise.

Acceptance doesn't mean condoning behaviour that caused harm.
Forgiveness, if it becomes part of our journey at all, doesn't require us to decide that what happened was acceptable.

And finding wisdom in what we've lived doesn't mean we have to become grateful for the experience that gave rise to it.

You can be grateful for who you've become without becoming grateful for everything that happened to you.

There are experiences we may always wish had been different.
Losses that remain losses.
Choices we would make differently with what we know now.
Things another person did that we may never understand or consider acceptable.

The past doesn't change simply because we heal.
But our relationship with the past can.

Something that once consumed our thoughts may begin to occupy less space.
Something we couldn't speak about without becoming overwhelmed may eventually feel different to hold.
An emotion may still return, but perhaps we recognise that its return doesn't mean we've gone backwards.

There may still be sadness.
Anger.
Grief.
There may still be consequences.

Healing doesn't necessarily erase any of those things.
And for someone still living through trauma, perhaps changing their relationship with what happened isn't even where they are yet.

Sometimes the work is surviving what is happening.
Finding safety.
Receiving support.

Allowing yourself to acknowledge:
That hurt me.
That was not okay.
Full stop.

There doesn't need to be a silver lining attached.
There is no timeline by which we are required to transform pain into wisdom, acceptance or forgiveness.

But over time, sometimes something begins to shift.
Not necessarily what we think about what happened.
But the amount of authority it holds over who we are now.

Perhaps this is one of the quieter ways healing reveals itself.
Not because the past became different.
But because we did.
We meet it with resources we didn't have then.
Perspective we couldn't access then.
Compassion we may not have known how to offer ourselves then.
Boundaries we've since learned to honour.

And perhaps a deeper capacity to remain beside ourselves when the past comes visiting.

Healing doesn't require us to approve retrospectively of what hurt us.
Nor do we have to rewrite something painful as beautiful, necessary or somehow destined in order to move forward.

We can discover wisdom through what we've lived without deciding we needed to experience it in order to become wise.
We can create meaning from what followed without believing the original experience happened for that purpose.

And perhaps peace doesn't always mean making peace with what happened.
Sometimes it means gradually creating greater peace within ourselves in relationship to what happened.

Those are not the same thing.

🪷 Something to Consider

Is there something from your past you've believed you need to feel differently about in order to know you've healed?
Perhaps you don't need to make what happened okay.

Perhaps the question is simply:
What is my relationship with this now?

Because the past doesn't need to become beautiful for your relationship with it to become different.
And something that once consumed you may, one day, simply visit.

Big love,
Kerryn 🤍

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