Mother’s Day Wishes & Reflections

Wishing you a beautiful, nourishing and celebratory Mother’s Day. 🎉🥰💃🎉

Whether you’re a biological mother or not, and no matter your gender, let’s celebrate our incredible feminine* capacity for receptivity - opening our hearts and receiving and tapping into the love that’s flowing all around us and running through us and between us.

Let’s practice receiving, which really is just as natural to us as giving - like an inhale is to an exhale. (Though for most of us, me included, our receiving muscle may need a little building up). The practice is worth the effort: when we open and receive, we increase our energy, our intution and our abliity to give to others. It’s a beautiful infinite loop. ♾️

Further reflections this morning...

It seems like an auspicious time to remind us that a good dose of savouring can help with receptivity. To practice opening up to feel, with our own blend of savouring: gratitude, pleasure, pride and/or awe. I’ve just spent a few minutes receiving and savouring all over again the notes from my children in my Mother’s Day journal, dating back to 2011, with tears of savouring falling. I’m looking forward to being with my three “kids” and husband later this afternoon. More receiving and savouring to come! 🙏❤️♾️🙏

❤️❤️❤️ Milisa

*Distinguishing the feminine principle from gender - From p. 127 of Ph.D. Dissertation of Dr. Claire Zammit, Founder of the Institute for Women-Centered Coaching (where I received some of my coach and facilitator training):

In an interview with Elizabeth Lesser (2009/2012), Marion Woodman distinguished the feminine principle from gender:

When I say the feminine, I don’t mean gender. I mean the feminine principle that is living - or suppressed - in both men and women. The feminine principle attempts to relate. Instead of breaking things off into parts, it says, Where are we alike? How can we connect?… And the feminine is difficult to talk about because so few people have experienced it. The feminine is presence, and relatedness, and a heart that can open so that when you meet another person you actually are seeing that person’s authentic self [emphasis added]. What meaning does human life have if noboby has ever seen you? (paras.1-2)