OUR RELATIONSHIP TO LIFE - A REFLECTION OF OUR WAY OF BEING

Our relationship to life, and all its many components, is always mirroring something of our inner world back to us.

Our relationships with work, money, food, connection, purpose, truth and safety all tell a story. What is your relationship with these aspects of life inviting you to see about yourself?

For example, our relationship with food reflects our relationship with nourishment - our capacity to give and receive, and our need for connection, safety and belonging. 

Our relationship with work is often a direct reflection of our relationship with authority, both inner and outer. For me, it has shown me the younger parts of myself that learned to survive by doing things the “right” way, the part that believed she had to earn approval, meet expectations, or move safely within structures that didn’t always honour her truth.

As children, we operate from survival, unconsciously asking ourselves, 'what do I need to do in order to be safe, to belong, to be loved?’ And from here, we develop behaviours that may have helped us survive at the time, but don’t necessarily help us thrive later in life.

You cannot let go of what you cannot yet see.
But when you begin to ask the question, who am I being in this relationship, you start to see the threads, and then the grip of a particular identity or way of being begins to loosen.

From here, we can begin to relate to life from a more honest, grounded and spacious way of being.

Relationships don’t just show us what we want, they show us WHO we are being.
 

SELF PRACTICE 
Choose one area of your life - food, work, money, love, your body – and ask yourself:

“Who am I being in this relationship?”
Not:
“What is wrong with me?”
“What should I fix?”
“What do I need to force?”

But simply:
“Who am I being right now?”
Notice what arises, without judgment, without trying to change anything.
That gentle seeing is the beginning of transformation.
 
Wishing you much love, happiness & healing, 
Rebecca