stay close 🌱
close to us
Hi beautiful being! I asked the same question last week but it still feels true to me now, How are you feeling? What has the rhythm of you felt like?Â
Rest and listening to what I need moment to moment is how I have been surviving the last few weeks. Without access to the things I know that help me feel okay right now is frustrating. Finding what I can do to take care of myself, finding ways to stay close to myself is what pulls me through. I think a lot of capitalism wants to tell us we can't access care if we don't have enough. Enough time, or enough money, or not enough deserving to live the way we want to live. But to me, right now, taking care means lying on my kitchen floor while my coffee brews. I have the privilege of being able to take time and pay my rent to be able to lay on my kitchen floor. I stay close to myself in finding the space and time to get bored and lay on the cold tiles.
Staying close to ourselves doesn't have to be a 60 minutes yoga class, or entire day working on a large creative project. It can be moments of finding who we are and how we want to be in the world. It is both impossible simple and complicated all at once.
Knowing how we operate, knowing what we need is how we find okay. Knowing how we can honour and stay with ourselves is how we take care.Â
How do you stay with yourself? How do you show up in your art? Maybe art and creativity is the place where we are fully be ourselves? Or someone else completely?
ways to stay close
Coffee shop chatter is my new meditation track (listen while on the floor of your kitchen for extra nirvana)
I've collected all my worksheets for feeling + figuring out + exploring in one space for you to dive into and get close to yourself.Â
Make something, anything
Listen to the birds
I love you
xx
phoebe
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