Astrid Blake

Fear was used—very effectively—to keep people apart, quiet intuition, and police what could be said or felt. Many sensed something wasn’t right in their gut yet were told that feeling itself was wrong. Humour matters here. It cuts through the veneer. It signals recognition. I feel it too.

Lines from a poem I wrote sometime ago surfaced in my consciousness, as the conversation unfolded, it brought forward thoughts of the earth storing hidden memories, hidden treasure and how we maybe drawn to seek it out. I instinctively recited the lines 'do not burn or burry the past in layers of shame. If we do that, we will only perpetuate the very same!'

Do you take time to step off the path? As humans, our brains throughout our lives can get a bit stuck in familiar patterns and keep treading the same path. Did you know we can encourage our brains neuroplasticity, strengthening existing positive pathways and forming new ones.