We wanted to honor space here for a RYME retreater's words on wholeness. We are grateful to them for choosing to share these heartfelt verses with the amazing RYME community.
our wholeness includes both the dark and the light we are all of our parts our flaws our mistakes our victories our challenges we are our secrets with the stars and our naked honesty we are our arguments and patience we are our great love stories and our fleeting romances we are our belly laughs and silent cries we are our jealously and envy but we are also our generosity and care we are deeply our past as much as we are our present to embrace our wholeness is not to cast a shadow over the parts we don’t love as much, it is to invite them into the light with the rest of us to learn from our own story to accept all the tiny pieces that make us, us when we let go of the tension and struggle to hide these parts we simultaneously make more space more space to grow & learn more space to move our energy in this earthly form with more ease we start to invite in the kind of energy from others that we deserve, not merely accept we start to intentionally flow with the ups // downs of life in a less extreme way we create balance we accept love we give love we protect our energy from people who are not on the same journey by giving back what is not ours to hold and as we start to accept our wholeness, things continue to align new paths // opportunities appear by slowing down, we allow ourselves the space to breathe, to look up, to listen to the universe and our own intuition when you can calm the mind, clarity flows creativity flows sparks are ignited and you are more closely tied to the present moment the concern of what happens tomorrow is quelled by knowing you are in the right place today unraveling deeply engrained patterns isn’t easy but it’s a choice a lifelong effort to undo parts of us that no longer serve where we are going little by little, it is easier to shine your light and radiate your energy to the world allow yourself grace and love as you uncover sides of your being you didn’t even know existed
be you, love you, be whole