We have to keep coming back to where we are. I recently ran a retreat, where I had started from an extremely low place and which is the worst place to try to be inspiring from. So the theme for the retreat was rest and restore, when I knew it needed to be “Hope” as soon as I met the guests.

There is a kind of hope that gets you through the short term, but after listening to the group and their stories of why they came it felt like they were all in the same energy. Low, exhusted, and in need of support. The one thing this life has taught me is to be what you are, exactly where you are, with out pushing it away, just stop and be completely present with it and the light will come,

It is always there, we just have to get out the way of it with our constant pushng to be something else. The sliver of light will come from somewhere. Even if you can’t see it at the time.

For me it was a fabulous group of yogis reflecting my energy back at me without knowing they were doing it. As I passed through their need for nurture on the first night, I released the need to try to fix. And as we went into the second day I felt the drawn to withdraw into myself as the guests also choose to rest, read and restore. By the third day I had alittle inspiration in the form of an epiphany,

which was during listening a talk by Tara Brach, which was on exactly what I was thinking about as the background to the retreat. Hope, that things can change!

It is that hope that lifts us out of the darkest of funks. The bliss of knowing this too shall pass.

Please do trust that all can and will change. Always. Listen to her podcast here if you fancy a pick me up.