05/12/2026
I share this story often. 🏔️🙏🏻
Hiking Kinsa Cocha in Peru with my teachers and the four directions…
and my heart being cracked open, epiphanies flooding in, love erupting, and deep feeling finally offering me clarity.
I’ll never forget this hike. This slow silent walk up the mountain and then down to the lakes, and across to the fire.
I’ll never forget how the eagles soared above us, how the wind blew in and hail fell, then the sun drew out from behind the clouds, and the wind was gone. The hail ceased. And we just kept walking.
I prayed on that mountain for all the women in my life, my Mother, my Aunts, my Grandmothers, who all journeyed thru breast cancer, like myself.
Every step in that slow walk was a prayer.
And in a beautiful flash of understanding, I realized all these many years, I’d been closed to love. I’d been hiding my heart away. I’d been protecting. I’d been asleep on the journey.
And from that moment on, my heart opened, love flowed in like a warm breeze and gentle magic, and I didn’t look back.
Only forward. Only to those I need to love more, louder, better.
My mission became having an open heart. An invitation to live and love deeply.
Fully. Truly.
And my parents are my biggest gift on this mission. Loving them is my honor.
This lifetime is such a short journey from start to finish. So if nothing else,
LET YOURSELF LOVE.
From my heart to yours,
Colleen
