The Building Blocks of Connection
AKA the foundation for all healthy relationships - including to yourself.
We all need to know what it is to inhabit our bodies – the mind and matter, muscle and bone, heart and soul – through whole-bodied connection.
There are seemingly endless demands on our time, energy, and attention from outside sources. Some of these we can manage, and others are just what we have to deal with. In order to not lose ourselves in the mix, we have to build intentional practices of self-connection into our schedules.
This is where the idea of Dropping In was birthed. It is a tool to help busy people build and maintain self-connection through simple prompts and practices.
Without you having to seek it out, it drops straight into your inbox to help you take the time to be present, tuned-in, and connected to yourself, encouraging you to take that same energy into the rest of your day (and week! and month!).
The focus of the first four months will be on The Building Blocks of Connection. These include: trust, curiosity, compassion, and belonging.
Relationships require more than our passive participation. If we want healthy connections, we have to put in the effort to build trust, remain curious, have compassion, and feel a sense of belonging. This is as true in the ways we relate to ourselves as the ways we relate to others.
When we make the commitment to stay engaged with our inner worlds, we can develop greater conviction, wonder, kindness, and confidence. This doesn’t mean that it will always be easy or feel joyful. The same can also be said of any deeper-than-the-surface relationship.
The invitation for you, today and every day this newsletter finds you, is as follows,
Let this be a place where you settle in, even for a few minutes.
A point of connection, a permission slip, and a reminder that YOU matter.
Your relationship to yourself matters.
May you offer yourself curiosity, kindness, and compassion, just as you are, wherever you are.