This week I'm sharing lessons from my experience Living in a Tiny House in the North Georgia Mountains.

The idea of a month away came during the Winter Solstice Virtual Retreat. Leading up to the retreat I felt a need to journey with plants, and I said yes to this intuition even though I did not want to leave my beloved trees and I wasn't sure how i would lead the Winter Solstice Virtual retreat on the road.

Nonetheless, I traveled to California and stayed with a friend who offered a tarot reading. There it came up--spend a month alone. This got reinforced during my plant journey where I told myself to spend a month alone--preferably somewhere warm--was my heart's desire.

To spend a month alone required me to put myself first.

It meant leaving my husband, my son, the house, the dog, the land we tend, my routines, all of the known for the unknown.

But the payoff was enormous.

• I felt myself regenerating my energy as I walked the forested land nude when it was warm enough but always shoeless.
• I cried face down on the land when sexual abuse wounds got activated.
• I prayed for healing and wisdom when foster kid trauma got activated.
• By being mostly alone, I did not have the normal distractions.
• I couldn't project the blame onto others.
• I start this episode With my funniest memory and what the crows told me soon after I arrived.

You can listen here to discover my biggest big takeaways:

1. Slow is Good!

Concentrate on the soil of my being rather than the seeds of my desires, projects and outward work. Good soil will cause seeds to sprout and root well--easily. Tend the soil--more than your ideas and plans--if you want your garden to produce. 2. I was not afraid or lonely.

The land and the crows, and the coyotes kept me company. I felt adopted into "the family of things" as Mary Oliver says. 3. Saturn is in pisces--and we've got some unfinished healing from 1993-96.

I have been able to see how this celestial movement reflected a previous time in my life where I "pretended" everything was okay but was struggling mightily with boundaries and self-care.

Many of us will get to spiral through whatever was difficult regarding emotions and boundaries if we were alive in 1993-1996.

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