Healing with Nature, The Divine Mother, and Flow

The active meditation that creates space for intuitive insights and other blessings to reach me.

After a devastating breakup 11 years ago, I did this photoshoot to empower myself. I wouldn’t know anything about spirituality or Divine Feminine energy for several years, but in hindsight, I see that I’d heard Her whispers long before my spiritual awakening.

I have given myself full permission to flow freely like water. I go out on solo hikes frequently connect to my divine feminine nature through the earth and receive answers from my intuition and the Divine Mother Herself. 

Depending on my mood and current life situation, this can mean a number of things. For example:

• I’ve gone out in the woods to recover my energy and nourish myself after long phone calls with friends who’ve needed a safe space to fall apart and receive love, support, and advice.

• My hikes have acted as walking therapy sessions where I’ve channeled my Super Soul Self or Higher Self to receive guidance, support, and healing compassion.

• Sometimes I go simply to get away, knowing that I’ll receive whatever I need, even if I’m unsure of what I’m looking for. 

• When I am feeling rigid, trapped, and disconnected from my creativity, exploring bodies of water during my hikes helps me to release my anxiety and re-enter my true state: Flow. That’s what I want to talk about today.

In my life, an hour-long hike is the same as a religious person praying in a church or other holy space. It is my sacred space to fall apart, rebuild, see limitless possibilities, receive medicine, and most importantly, come home to myself. 

Today, I’m writing a love letter to Flow. It’s the opposite energy of what we’re told to embrace in our hyper-masculine society that celebrates hustle and instant results. It’s slowing down to feel every sensation from the breeze on my skin to the smoothness of the keys on my keyboard as I type this. It’s embracing small luxuries, like the smooth velvety texture I enjoy when I make my matcha latte just right or my partner bringing me fancy chocolates because I was on his mind while he was out running errands. The Flow I’m talking about is found in allowing life to feel good and nurturing. It’s about welcoming in ease and feeling gratitude for all that is precious.