Spring Equinox - Start Living

Plus a video reflection with Ceremonial Cacao

I don’t know who needs to hear this but start living.

The days are flying by and you work, pay bills, and stress. Joy isn’t expensive and you deserve it. Remember, I claimed for 2025 to live in “High Vibration” despite the chaos. Stick with me kid, and we will find more highs than lows together. I’m serious, I love connecting and creating joy through authenticity. I’m coming out of my dark years and I want to bring you along to joy and discovery.

The Spring Equinox occurs when the sun crosses the celestial equator and the day and night are equal in length. This year, it occurred on March 20, 2025, and it denoted the official day of Spring in the Northern Hemisphere.

Spring is marked by the budding of new life at the end of branches on trees waiting for leaves to burst open so they can usher in their green leaves. The leaves carry the breeze to caress our faces and hair in a new way.

Art with permission by Verena Wild

What words come to mind when you think of Spring?

Rebirth, renewal, blossom, optimism, aliveness, reemergence, vitality, and potential are a few words that arise for me.

Growing up, one of our steady donations was to the Jewish National Fund (JNF), to plant a tree in Israel in honor of a birthday or life event. JNF plants approximately 3 million trees per year focusing on areas where they are most needed and cultivated for the environment. It’s the value of tikkun olam, repairing the world one tree at a time alongside the creation of water projects, and building dams and reservoirs for sustainability in the middle of a once barren desert. With each tree planted, it’s like an act of hope made visible.

The Earth and the self are not separate. To restore one, we must restore the other.

—Thich Nhat Hanh

Some may see this time in our collective world with eyes and hearts of grief for the destruction of our world as we know it. There is time for that and there is also time for processing to remember our birthright of joy and happiness. Believing in the both/and for today is something I can’t help but lean into.

The way we process the world around us and our internal dialogue profoundly impacts our nervous system. Past experiences and habitual reactions can influence how we navigate the present. As the world continues to move at an overwhelming pace, finding stillness amidst the chaos continues to become essential.

What if we reframed it all as a path to transformation?

Even though we haven’t been in this type of chaos before, there are time-tested tools we can use to process and shift within. We have to find our resilience and remember to listen to the still small voice within that is our rooted wisdom of inner intelligence.

It is all changing at the speed of light and we need practices to remember this inner intelligence that we were born with. There is courage, grace and clarity that needs to become ever present in daily life.

We know that there is happiness on the other side of suffering because we can’t have one without the other. And when we seek meaning through the practices, we can have more solid ground beneath our feet.

Tools like mindfulness, free writing, and community (online and in-person)will help you reconnect to your center and cultivate inner resilience in the face of personal and collective challenges.

I’m here to facilitate with these tools to help you self-regulate and restore balance when life feels out of control.

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Grateful for the artwork provided by Verena Wild.

You can find her soulful artwork - https://www.verena-wild.com/