I received a beautiful bouquet of flowers a month ago. It was every color of the rainbow - so vibrant and bright, I literally squealed with delight when I saw it. 💐

Every week since then, I’ve watched the flowers transform - from a state of blooming & expansion, to eventual shrinking & contraction as they completed their cycle of life on earth. The change of color, texture, and size of the flowers was fascinating to observe.

Every few days, I would enjoy trimming the flowers, adjusting the leaves, and rearranging the bouquet, to make it look as lovely as possible.

Once the flowers started dying, I continued to tend to them. Once all of them had died, I use my hands to gently crush up the dried flowers and send them back into the earth.

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🌻 The way these beautiful flowers showed me how to care for them, reflects the way I hope to take care of myself in my human body. It reflects the way I hope we can all take care of ourselves and each other – with tenderness, gentleness, acceptance of all phases of life, and deep appreciation for the beauty & magic in each of us.

In this way, nature is medicine for my nervous system (and maybe for yours, too).

Being in contact with nature – whether it is a bouquet of flowers or an entire forest - reminds me what aliveness feels like.

It reminds me that pleasure, play, and joy are available to us.

It reminds me that we don’t have to wait for permission in order to be who we are. The flower doesn’t wait for permission in order to bloom. It simply blooms. It exists, unapologetically.

You and I and everyone else… are as much a part of nature as the flowers.

Let nature remind you to take care of yourself - unapologetically. 💜

With care,

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