4. Surviving/Strengthening

Surviving/Strengthening: #4 in the Great Mother Kit

Combination includes: Pink Hawthorn, Warrior, Rio Samba, Ninebark, Honeysuckle, Healer.

When we are paralyzed by guilt and shame, Surviving and Strengthening softens our cruel self-judgments and helps us open to the flow of life’s nourishment in the moment.

My sleep is shattered with endless scenes of deceit and torture. Frightful atrocities overwhelm me. Appalled and grief-stricken, I want to run away. I have become everything I hated and feared. My illusions of perfection are wrenched from me. I am both the monster, cruel and terrible, and the victim. How can this be? Filled with shame, I weep. My tears make a pool upon the cool stone floor.

“Stay in this holy place. Find the well. Drink and be nourished.”