Give the Gift of Receiving

Receiving is an invaluable gift to give.
And we are collectively very bad at it.

It sits differently for each of us. We each have our own unique identities, life experiences and oppressions we have encountered. But I have not yet come across anyone who easily recieves. Not in the ways we most deeply and truly need.

Our blocked channels of receiving, and thus of giving, are a problem with great impact on us individually and as a whole.

We all have so much to contribute to the well-being and healing of the world. It is a deep, human, essential need to give. Yet when we cut ourselves off from support from others, and ourselves, we leave ourselves malnourished and our own flow of giving is stunted.

The good news is that we get to change course!
If we are to repair our world, it is essential that we do.

You get to allow support in. You get to ask for help. You get to show yourself in the places that feel most vulnerable. Our wounded world has widespread patterns of disconnected individualism that teach us those acts are signs of weakness, yet that is the farthest thing from true. Receiving is not self-indulgent. To open to such reciprocal connection is one of the most world healing things we can do.

What can you move towards receiving?
 Ask yourself that question. Then ask yourself again and again to find your deepest, truest answers.