I’ve been thinking a lot about our opportunities to tell the truth about our lives. Do you do this? When someone asks you how you’re doing, are you honest? Or is it just easier to say “good” and move on, burying the truth even deeper inside?

I’ve definitely had my ups and downs over the past several months—and for me, telling the truth about my experience helps me stay in my integrity, stay connected to my humanness and our collective humanness, and gives me permission to be fully myself. No one’s life is perfect. None of us get out of this unscathed.

Elizabeth GilletteSeptember 3, 2019here to heal podcast, healing, heirloom counseling, vulnerability Comment

here to heal podcast, episode 6: unearthing and cultivating healing through vulnerability and presence

In Episode 6, I’m talking with Aurora Gantz (they/them), an artist who loves connecting with nature and is super into personal growth!

Aurora shares with us the importance of connecting with and holding space ourselves, self-care practices, their connection with tea through presence and intuition, and how all of these have an impact on how we show up in relationship with others. They also remind us how healing is a journey. Step by step. Day by day. Breath by breath.

How will YOU show up this year?

Hi! Wowza—anyone still recovering from the doozy of a year that was 2017? I can feel that the energy has shifted and 2018 is definitely here, but I think my nervous system is still catching up. I’ve tried to be extra gentle with myself over the past few weeks as I navigated traveling and an office move, and I have been giving myself some space to envision the role I’d like Heirloom to play in our communities and how I want to show up as a business owner, clinician, and human being over the next year.

December: Birth and Loss

I am no stranger to loss—of people I love, relationships, seasons of my life, and health. I have been to more funerals than I’d like to share. I have looked death in the face personally in my experience with cancer. I was barely 18 when my father died unexpectedly and left me with more questions than answers about who he was and what our relationship could have been like. These experiences shape me, but they don’t define me. I would never wish these things on anyone, but I wouldn’t change them either. I am more compassionate, loving, open, and caring than I ever thought I could be. My heart is open and vulnerable, and I do the work to allow this (side note: it’s really hard). And that’s the way I choose to live my life.

Elizabeth GilletteDecember 13, 2017birth, loss, grief, heirloom counseling, vulnerability Comment

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