The Moment We’re In
Whew. It’s not easy to talk about this.
And still — I want to speak to the moment we’re living in.
These are revolutionary times. Which means we’re witnessing people empowered and emboldened in ways we haven’t seen before… and the opposite.
I tend to stay focused on my purpose and somewhat removed from politics and the daily news cycle — not because I don’t care, but because I practice discernment and tend to my energy so I can remain potent in all that I’m here to do. I’m grateful to have a community of family and friends who help keep me informed about what truly matters, without requiring me to live inside the constant churn.
And yet, as I step into greater leadership — as I hold a growing community — I no longer feel that I can invite you into my sphere without acknowledging what is affecting us all, whether we’re consciously tracking it or not.
This week, my heart has been heavy as I learned about Alex Pretti in Minnesota, who lost his life — a brave act of humanity that ended in a devastating outcome. And before that, Renee Good. These stories, and so many more, live in the collective field. They live in my field.
For some, events like these are catalysts.
For others, they’re calls to action.
For others still, they bring grief, numbness, anger, prayer, or resolve.
Again — dynamic times.
Times where, in real time, we are outgrowing the simplicity of right and wrong, good and bad. We are more complex than that. We always have been.
What I’m noticing most is this:
This threshold between one year and the next doesn’t feel clean or celebratory. It feels gritty. Activated. Blurry. As though there is no clear edge to step over.
A mirror, perhaps, of the truth that things are no longer black and white.
As if the chaos and the creation we’re living in no longer allow us to simply step across a line or fit back into the boxes we once relied on.
This feels like a time where we are evolving out of judgment and polarity… and into choice.
What do we want more of?
What do we want to embrace?
What are we willing to create?
Many of my teachers did not model how to speak about current events. They stayed in their lane, focused on spirituality alone. I understand that choice — and I honor it.
And still, I feel it’s important for you to know where I stand. These times feel different. Transparency feels needed now.
I may or may not hold opinions that align with yours — and that is okay with me. What matters to me is staying in integrity: naming what’s present without collapsing into polarity, bypassing what’s real, or othering your point of view.
I asked Spirit what message would be most useful to bring right now.
What came to me was a story my teacher has shared many times. As with all Indigenous oral storytelling, each telling reveals something new.
The story takes place in Peru during a time when devastating fires were raging across the land. The government gathered shamans and healers from surrounding regions to help. One woman went into a deep ceremony and did not emerge until the fires went out. When asked what she had done, the teaching passed down was simple:
She found where she herself was out of balance — and stayed in ceremony until balance was restored.
Traditionally, the story is understood as prayer bringing relief. We assume she went into ceremony praying for the fires to go out.
But this time, I heard it differently.
What if she didn’t pray for the fires to stop?
What if she asked how she could come into deeper acceptance and alignment with what is — not what is currently happening, but the deeper truth of life itself?
That life — the divine intelligence of creation — is always moving us towards what we are asking for.
What if, in acceptance of what is — even amid devastation — she anchored a state of inner coherence so complete that reality reorganized around it?!
This isn’t spiritual bypassing. It’s not denial of pain, injustice, or loss.
It’s a place to gather and bring power to the focal point — reorganizing the qualitative reality of our lived experience.
Many spiritual traditions teach that as fragmentation occurs, no matter how chaotic, there is an inherent movement back toward wholeness. That no matter how broken something appears, healing is being sought. Balance becomes a form of magnetic inevitability.
This belief can offer us a buoy — something to float with while remaining present to the pain and disorder.
And yet, we live here. On the ground. In real bodies. With real grief.
So what do we do with this understanding?
First, I want to name this clearly: every response you are having is valid. Rage. Numbness. Tears. Prayer. Action. Confusion. All of this is natural. All of this is real. All asks for your attention.
The question I return to again and again is this:
What emotional, mental, and energetic state can I choose [or get to] that contributes to the world I want to live in?
There is no correct answer. There is no single right way to be.
Some of us are being called to speak.
Some to act.
Some to grieve.
Some to show up in community — arm in arm.
Some to pray and heal as a contribution to the greater whole.
What is happening in the world today is not okay for those of us who desire a world where we are all cared for and provided for — a world where resources are plentiful and everyone is accounted for.
It is heartbreaking for those of us who feel love, lead with love, and sense the divinity in humankind pressing at the door of our reality, longing to be expressed.
And even though the times may not calm down soon, and your personal life may not achieve a tidy or blissful nature, this is not a time to freeze in fear.
Not a time to drown in despair.
And not a time to overextend ourselves into exhaustion.
The years ahead will require us to be resilient, not depleted.
Present, not hollowed out.
Resourced, so we can help resource one another in a world that often isn’t providing what we all need.
So I’ll leave you with a few questions to sit with gently.
When we ask potent questions, we reveal new perspectives and tap into greater clarity and knowing:
What supports the sustainability of you right now?
What feels in alignment with what you truly want to experience more of?
What small, honest choice today strengthens your capacity to stay in good relationship with yourself and with others?
Every choice we make — how we speak, how we focus, how we engage, how we care for ourselves — becomes an ingredient in the larger soup pot of our world.
Some days we add carrots.
Some days jalapeños.
There’s no right or wrong answer — only conscious participation.
To all the lives lost.
To all the people protesting.
To all the people praying.
To all the quiet, unseen ways we are moving through this moment together —
My heart is alive.
My heart is with you.
My heart grows and flows.
My heart beats to the rhythm of freedom, resilience, and belief.
I believe in us.
