Honoring Endings & Becoming Again

In this deeply personal birthday episode, Anna shares a powerful ritual she has practiced for years to honor life’s transitions, whether it is a new year of life, a loss, or a meaningful shift in identity. She explores the intimate relationship between grief and love, reminding us that grief is not something to avoid, but something that reveals the depth of our care and connection. Through a moving story and a guided meditation, Anna invites listeners to gently acknowledge the past, anchor into the present, and consciously step toward the future. 

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Welcome back to Weaving Resonance Podcast. Today's episode feels really personal to me because I'm recording this just before my birthday, and I'm finding myself reflecting on this past year and feeling really drawn to sharing a ritual with all of you that I have been doing every year on my birthday for probably five, six, seven years now. And what I don't mention in this episode that I wanted to drop in here is that something that I do alongside this ritual is that I do a manifesting board every year or two, which I was just working on, which got me thinking about it. And this is really um I buy a poster board, I get like usually three magazines that I flip through beforehand and look at what kind of words and pictures they have in them. And then I create a poster board, a manifesting board for my whole year. So I have all these poster boards now that are adding up since I started doing this many years ago. And it's really to kind of honor the ending of this year and also put my energy, my intention into what I want to create in this following year. And when I was thinking about that, um, I wanted to mention two things to you, actually, two friends that I want to bring to your attention today. One is um Catherine Powell. And Catherine Powell has, oh my goodness, we've known each other for over 10 years, and um, she's studied under me, trained under me in intuition and energy, and she just launched a YouTube channel a few months ago, and it is just so magnificent. Um, and it's all about creation. She creates collages, she creates intuitive art, and she teaches you on her YouTube channel how to do that too. So I wanted to give you her handle if you're kind of looking to create a manifesting board or looking into connecting with your creative spirit. So you can look up Catherine, I believe it's just her name, so at Catherine Powell on YouTube. And again, just look at her art, take it in, and I mean, even just seeing it feels healing. And the second person that I wanted to shout out today is my friend and also someone that has trained under me intuition and energy work, um, Patricia Petwow. And Patricia Wow started a YouTube channel a few weeks ago that is all her using crystal bulbs to create all different healing frequencies. And this has really taken off, and I'm just so proud of her and so in awe of her. Um, and I can tell right away how much it's resonating with everyone, these different videos that she's putting up. And you can literally just click on a video, and if it's the frequency that you want, you can have like your own personal sound bath at home with Patricia. And her YouTube channel, her handle is Crystals is it, yeah, Crystal Sound Healing. Crystal sound healing. So check out those two things, especially um important for today's episode. Because, like I said, what Catherine's putting out there can really help you with the manifesting board that I don't mention in this episode, but I definitely do every year. And then Patricia's sound could be such a beautiful element to add in when I lead you through the meditation at the end of this episode, where if you're going to any kind of transition, like I said, a birthday, and maybe it's something like switching jobs or a location, you can tune into that too. So, anyway, back to the episode. In this episode, we move into a conversation around endings, around beginnings, and the massive space in between those things. We also talk about grief. Um, and I share my perspective on grief and why I'm bringing it up in this episode, and I share a story that is one of my most favorite stories to ever tell. So um that's it, guys. This episode is uh a big one. It's a beautiful one. And I hope that you enjoy it. And thank you for sitting here and being with me as I transition into year 42. Um, which is the same age that my mom was when she had me. So what a blessing to be able to sit here to become 42 myself, to be able to still have my mother and my father here. Um, so I'm reflecting on a lot of gratitude today. Gratitude for my life, for the people in my life, and for you. So sit back, take a nice deep breath, settle into your body, and let's begin. Hello and welcome back to Weaving Resonance. I have a special um episode for you today, as I am recording this one week before my birthday. So this episode is going live on April 7th, which is my birthday. And I wanted to share for my birthday episode, let's call it, uh, a ritual that I have been doing every year for probably about seven years now. And this ritual really honors endings and beginnings. And I've found through the work that I do with energy, with intuition, with working with all different people and being able to really go deep with people very quickly, um, which I feel very grateful to be able to do, to be able to sit with people and um immediately go into the real stuff, the real emotional stuff, the real human stuff. And with that, I have noticed that there are certain times when we are losing our connection with our past selves and our present selves and our future selves. And I found that bringing awareness to these aspects of us and really honoring them, taking a moment, whether it's to honor your birthday and sit there and really review the last year of who you were and to sit with who is here now and to look forward into what you're coming into, what you're becoming in the following year. Or if you're doing this in other areas of your life, maybe you are preparing or just quit a job, or maybe you're transitioning in careers right now. Maybe you are switching from not having any kids to deciding to have children. Maybe you are grieving a loss of someone, whether that is someone who passed away, or someone, maybe you had a breakup, right? Or lost a friend. This episode and this ritual that we're gonna do today can really allow you to, like I said, kind of honor the past, ground an anchor in the present, and be able to visualize the future. And it kind of like cleans the past for you, this ritual that we're gonna do in a little bit. So before I get there, I want to talk a little bit about why I not only wanted to share this ritual that I do because it's my birthday and I'm going to be doing it on April 7th with you, but to also talk about this idea of endings and beginnings specifically around grief. I have been noticing that there's a lot of grief happening right now. A lot of my dear friends are going through tremendous grief in losing people. People are going through heartbreak, people are grieving what's happening in the world on all different levels. And if you are someone who has really sat with grief in all its forms, you know that it is something that demands your attention. All grief wants is to be seen, to be felt, and to be experienced. And grief will wait for you. If you distract yourself, if you try to avoid or disassociate from your grief, it will just sit there and wait. And then the moment you become present, it will be right there waiting to be processed, to be sat with, to be in relationship with. So when we are grieving really profoundly, we are also loving really profoundly. We are recognizing that these are two sides of one coin, right? So with that, I want to share one of my favorite stories. I love to share this story. And this story is about grief and about love. So this was written by Franz Kafta. Hopefully, I am pronouncing that name right. And the story goes that there once was an elderly man, let's say pushing 80, who lived in the city, New York City, and he had just lost his wife of like 50 years, many, many years of partnership. And he was grieving the loss of his wife. And one of the ways that he did that is that every day he would go into the park in New York City, sit on a bench, and just be with nature and people watch. And one of those days, in the midst of his grief, he found himself sitting on a park bench, as he always did, and he saw a little girl crying. And when he approached the little girl to ask her why she was crying, the little girl said that she had lost her doll. And the the man.

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And the story goes like this. There once was a man who was around 80 years old who had just lost his wife of many years. They were married for like 30, 40 years of their life. And one of the ways that this man worked with his grief is that every day he would go and sit on a park bench near his home in New York City in a park. And damn it. And the story goes like this. Once there was this elderly man who lived in New York City with his wife. And this man was totally heartbroken. So every day he would leave his New York City apartment and go and sit on a bench in a park to people watch, to listen to nature, and to just be with his grief. Because him and his wife had spent a lot of time sitting on park benches. And one of their favorite things was just people watching. And as the man did this, day after day, week after week, he started to notice that there was always a little girl that would go play with her mom there. And the little girl always had a doll. And the mom would kind of sit on a bench, and the little girl would go off around the park and play with her doll. And then one day, the man went to the park to sit on the bench and found the little girl there crying. And when the man asked her what happened, the little girl said that she had lost her doll. She had no idea where the doll was. So the man went with the little girl round the park and tried to find the doll. They did everything they could to try and find the doll, and they couldn't find it. So that night, the man went home thinking about this little girl that he had befriended that day and her losing her doll and her grief. And he decided to write a letter as if he was the doll to the girl. And the next day, the man went to the park and he said, Oh, I received this letter from your doll. And he read it to the little girl. And the man like just started to do this every single day. He would write a letter every day, and he would share the letter with the little girl the next day to talk about the doll kind of away on their adventures, right? So it's almost like the doll was sending the girl postcards every day. And through this, the man and this little girl formed this beautiful friendship, this beautiful kinship. And after many, many years, one day the man realized that he was getting too old to be able to continue going to this park. He wasn't able to walk as well and he didn't have anyone to kind of help him get there. So he decided to buy a new doll. And one day he showed up at the park, his last day that he would do that. The little girl was there waiting for him. Again, they were such close friends at this point. And instead of having a letter from the doll, the man brought the girl a doll with a letter that said, because the little girl looked at the doll and said, This isn't my doll. And then she opens the letter that he wrote and it said, My travels have changed me. Right? Because obviously it wasn't the same doll. But the man wanted to make sure that that little girl got that love back because he wasn't going to be able to sit with her and write those letters anymore. So many, many years after that, the man passed, the little girl grew up, and one day the little girl pulled the doll off of her shelf and realized something that she had never noticed. A little note tucked into the doll's pants. And when she opened the note, it's gonna make me cry. Makes me cry every time. The note read, you will lose everything that you love. But that love will come back to you in all different forms. You will lose everything that you love, but that love will come back to you in all different forms. And of course, in the story, what it was symbolizing is that this man had lost his wife. He was in such deep grief, but yet love came to him through this doll, through this relationship with this girl. And he was trying to say that if you stay open in your grief, if you know that you will lose everything that you love, but also know that that love will come back to you if you just open your eyes, your ears, your body to sense it, it will be right there. So, with that, I'd like to open an experience, a container for us today, a meditation that you can either do right now or that you can do when you are ready to be in a transition point. Again, whether this is you transitioning from turning a year older, transitioning from moving from one location to another, moving jobs, moving relationships. But this is an opportunity for us to pause and sit and honor who we were, who we are, and who we are becoming. So if you'd like to join me, go ahead and take a moment to either close your eyes or find a soft gaze. And just allow all of your awareness, all of your life force, your attention to land within the confines of your body. Feeling your body as it rests on the surface beneath you. Feeling and sensing your body as you hear any sounds that are present around you right now. And feeling and sensing your body as you just notice your breath. The rising and falling of your inhale and your exhale. And as you settle deeper into your body, deeper into this moment, deeper into a state of pure presence. Sense if you could start to feel the presence of Mother Earth beneath your feet. And just feel the nourishing, supportive energy of Mother Earth holding you up. Feel her warmth, her care. And as you feel yourself being held by this beautiful planet, sense and feel that you are also held and contained by the universe itself. Feeling our Milky Way, our sun, our moon hugging you from all sides. Feeling the stars and the galaxies that extend beyond our galaxy. Feel the vastness of the universe itself. And feel that you are being held by both the universe and Mother Earth just right here in this body. And as you arrive in this place of being right here, right now, this moment, this time in your life, this exact day, this exact hour, this exact minute. Sense into this past version of yourself. So maybe if it's a birthday, you're sensing into the past year. If you're switching careers, relationships, locations, sense into the past that encompasses that, the beginning when that started until now. And see if you could travel back and honor every little pinpoint in this past, every moment that gave you energy, all the happy, the joyful, the playful moments, the highs, just honor them from the beginning to right now. Noticing any emotions that arise within your system, notice any shifts in your energy, any colors you may be seeing with your eyes closed, visions, sensations. Open all your senses to really be in these moments. And then sweeping over this past version of yourself again. Notice all the challenging moments. What we could reflect on as the lows, the tough moments, the breaking points, the breakdowns, the frustrations, the tension. And just see them through your eyes now, and again, feel them. Notice what you see, what you sense, feel. And imagine that you could turn around to that past self of you and feel and sense that past version standing face to face with you. And as you look down at this past self at their hand, you will notice that they are holding a baton. A baton that they have been running with this whole time. And that it is now time to pass this baton to you, to this present version, this body that you are in, this frequency that you are right now. And as that past version passes this baton to you, take a moment to say all the things you need to say to that past version, all the gratitude for everything they've been through, honoring them, loving them. Loving them for everything they didn't know. Everything they did know. Everything they did and everything they didn't do. And as you receive this baton in your hand now, go ahead and give one last farewell to that past version of you. Maybe it's a bow, maybe it's prayer hands, a hug, whatever feels resonant. And once that's done, go ahead and imagine that you could turn forward now and meet the version of you that is this next year or this next identity you're stepping into. And as you hold this baton as your present self, imagine that through your heart and through your hands, you could send whatever energy you could generate it in your heart, whatever energy you want to gift to this future self. And feel that energy ignite at your heart, rush down through your hands and light up this baton, filling it with everything, all the power, all the force, all the life, all the love that you want to send with this future self, this future version. And once that baton is filled with all this light, feel your whole body become that light as you pass this baton to your future self and watch as they turn and start running. And notice that as they run, they are pulling that light that you just put into that baton, that light that you just became in your whole body forward, and feel that momentum. They are pulling you forward. And with this frequency, with this amplification of your whole field, your whole body, knowing that you are supported by the past self behind you, the past totally clear and clean and honored, and that you are now being held and pulled by your future self. They know exactly where they need to go. And go ahead and take a moment, just feel the earth beneath you, feel this frequency that you have become, feel the universe holding and hugging you in. And when you're ready, you can very slowly start to open your eyes and just orient yourself in space and time, feeling your physical body, feeling the surface beneath you again, maybe looking around at the walls or wherever you are, the environment that you're in, just to again feel where you are and anchor that light into right now, into the land beneath your feet, into the air around your body, in and through your spine, in and through your blood, feel your heart pumping that light force through your whole body. And when we do this, what just happened is that you didn't just leave the past behind you in a way that you don't want to look at it. You didn't create more shadow. Instead, you wiped it clear and you honor that energy so that you have so much energy to go forward. So I hope that this meditation, this experience supports you in whatever transition you are in right now, whatever is ending and whatever new beginning is starting. And just as a reminder, if you happen to listen to this before April 11th, which is for me next Saturday, uh, we have the Activate Your Energy workshop coming up, which is going to teach you all the seven layers of your electromagnetic field, of your aura, and how to not only work with each layer, but also how to clean them and align them so that you may feel in total coherence, right? When we are in coherence, our signal is clear. It is not muddied, it is not, there's no noise there. We know exactly how to move forward, right? Kind of going off of this meditation that we just did. And we feel very certain. So if you're interested in that, go to my website. I'm sure I can click or um add the link to the show notes as well. But activate your energy field workshop starts on April 11th, 11 a.m. Eastern to 1 p.m. Eastern. Check that out if you're interested. And that's all I have for you today, friends. So I will see you next week. And I hope that you all have the most beautiful day. 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