A poem to inspire a sense of lineage in creation:

Creation
By Candice Wu

All that I birth
unborn and alive
Know the wisdom of your ancestors in your bones
know my mother through my heart
grandmother who is steeped in my eyes

You're of strength and determination
The presence of the fathers in my spine
of those magnificently behind
And Those unnamed
Ancient, belonging to Life itself
Of the soul of the shaman, the witch, teacher, farmer

Moving knowledge
your body
Breathe and live
The feather of bird
Shoulders of horse
The gentle, fierce lullaby of the moon
That regenerates soil and wolf
Infinite teachers creative and unimaginable
We honor in the exhalation
Towards more

You meet the waters time and again
Harsh and deep, bringing ocean strength
Humbled by storm and tickled by ether
Broken by the great dance of mystery
Of whispers
Empty and full.

Who knows the way?

And while the unknown bites you its magic
You only begin to learn your movement with Earth and River
To un-try with ease in your legs
To reignite your wild

You shape with hands the clay
of possibility ever-changing
Of body evolving
The cells colliding.

Do you still seek to peer over the edge?
To unfold and source your Self
To dream; to see —
Do You risk to be seen?
Undone and complete you see into yourself
In this moment, in now and now
You know the way
Like you know your Self
You know
that I am
You are
And I am.

Giving All Parts of You a Place

To embrace and give a place for all the parts of who you have been and who you are, all those that stand behind you and all those in your lineage gives the kaleidoscope of fullness and wholeness. We feel more of ourselves, good and bad. We acknowledge and experience more.

Take a moment to love the many parts of yourself by honoring this in you today!

Honor all the parts that have made up you.

• What parts of your passions or gifts from your past can you reclaim and repurpose into the now?
• What ways of being, parts of yourself, or identities past or present can you honor and give a place in the lineage and presence of your being?
• Who has been behind you to birth you (literally and figuratively), support you, teach you and love you? Both the ones that feel directly and easily acknowledge and those that have given you hard lessons to look at.

Stand and feel what happens inside of yourself when you are aware and make a place for the lineage of who you are, the lineage of your ancestry and soul, and all those that are behind you.

Embody and breathe in to receive. Let all parts have a place so you can recalibrate to what is giving life now and release or place differently what isn’t.

When all parts and things have a place, I feel relief, knowing that I can receive and connect to what’s true and nourishing now, and that what doesn’t serve is acknowledged and has it’s place farther back, as it was a past part of me. That the challenging things are acknowledged, gives tribute to the fullness of experience.

Be curious and see what comes up for you as you explore!

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