I love group hugs! Here’s to restoration and replenishment – vitality rising for thriving.
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Have been noticing various stuck patterns / places in my life and also how I tend to be very self-judgmental & mean to myself around this. I wrote a post here last week and then deleted it - because even though I can see I have blocks & self-sabotage, I still keep running the same damn dysfunctional patterns anyways. It drives me alittle bit crazy.
Even so, this self-meanness has to stop. I find myself wanting to change the name of this treehouse to “Self-Kindness Treehouse” because I really need to learn this. I set my intention that before I die / pass to the “Great Beyond” I want to learn to love myself. Don’t want to go to my death bed regretting that I spent most of my life being mean to myself & even self-abusive at times. Praying to the Great Mother to choose self-compassion / make it a way of life.
Bought two new audiobooks - “Outshining Trauma” by Ralph De La Rosa, and “The Joy Reset” by Dr. MaryCatherine McDonald, Ph.D. Hoping these will help to create a real shift. The Outshining Trauma book is about radical self-compassion & seems really good so far.
Looking forward to the “Yes My Circus, But NOT My Monkey” workshop on May 25th.
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Thank you, Jewel. I fully support your desire to shift into more self-compassion. “Even though I certainly COULD be mean to myself right now, and I’m good at that… I’ve decided to ____” – I did a lot of that kind of tapping.
My self-compassion deepens and strengthens when I take ONE new action on a consistent basis. Not “perfect consistent” but treating it like a sacred decision.
Today was day 1500 for my Morning Mile. It started, though, as Day 1. And then Day 2.
I do track, as a reminder more than “accountability.”
Is there something that, if you did it for 100 days, would establish you on a different level of loving compassion? Anything that has lit up as a useful practice in your reading?
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Thanks Rick. I appreciate your support. There have been some idea’s percolating in the back of my mind. Something about going to the “Self-Kindness Temple” daily and praying for help. And I’ve been noticing when I’m at work and ask “Self-Kindness Jewel” to sort of take over, there is a softening and I seem to relax abit instead of being so harsh with myself. Enjoying that.
I think this is going to be my “Summer of Self-Kindness”. I will go to this inner temple daily and ask for help / pray for divine grace to learn new ways. I found some soothing images on Pinterest that inspire me along these lines…
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Love this image.
September 14th, 2025 - I am thinking I would like to change this Treehouse theme - and call it “Jewel’s Soul Care Treehouse” (and sort of start over fresh).
Would it be too much trouble to change the title at the top, Rick?
I will always love treehouse’s, but this one has evolved into a place of soul care - at least in my imagination. And I will be doing all my emotional healing work under the umbrella of “Self-Kindness” now (see “Year of Self-Kindness”) because I figure that’s the only way I’m ever going to get unstuck and work through my emotional crap - through a helluva lot of self-kindness instead of my usual pattern of self-meanness.
I will add more to this Soul Care Treehouse theme abit later. Gonna go get myself situated outdoors in nature first (in my sister’s private backyard) - a place where my soul seems to flourish, and I get more inspiration there.
(see ya in abit)…
I changed the name for ya…
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Soul Care Treehouse (new beginnings):
I hope this will be a welcoming space for all to explore soul care together - whatever that means to you. Please come in and light a candle here & share your prayers and spiritual journey.
My idea’s about soul care have been evolving and changing alot, but spirituality and care of the soul always remain central in my life. Currently I have a few books in my library I have been nibbling at here & there:
(1) Deconstructing (Karla Kamstra)
(2) A Time for Grace (Caroline Myss)
(3) A Religion of One’s Own (Thomas Moore)
(4) Expectation Hang-Over (Christine Hassler)
(5) Taming the Tiger Within (Thich Nhat Hahn)
I find I would like to write abit about how my spiritual journey started (had a strange “spiritual awakening experience” as a teenager while high on magic mushrooms - which radically changed my life - I quit drinking and taking drugs then, but unfortunately ended up getting involved with very strict fundamentalist religion after that, and it took me quite awhile to extricate myself).
But today I just need to rest, so that story will be for another time. Currently my soul care path seems include yoga (or thinking I should be doing yoga, but not actually doing it that much - 
), being in nature, prayer, having an altar at home, creativity, something I call the “deep pool of love within”, poetry writing, and gentle breathwork.
I did go to the United Church for awhile (a very open minded church in Canada) but since the pandemic I just can’t seem to bring myself to go anymore - it seems boring to me now, and I still have some anger at God that remains unresolved, but I’m working on it (writing about it). I suspect it’s probably more what Tara Brach talks about - how “anger is sometimes a lazy form of grief” / a kind of wall against feeling sorrow & loss.
I like alot of the Tara Brach material (how she blends Buddhism with psychology). She has many free resources on her website - I think I will go listen to one of her talks now on “Anger and Transformation” ( Anger and Transformation - Tara Brach.
More later.
Wishing you a grounded spiritual path filled with love and deep rest to your soul.
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I love this and it being here in our shared we-space. Bless you, Jewel. Soul Care for me today was listening to the “not yet” on the workshop, and the joint not today with Cathy, and rescheduling. It’s not so much I couldn’t, and if it was actually Soul-aligned, I believe with my Knowing that the energy and Yes would be there.
There’s so much soul care in the acceptance of Not Yet, Not Now, and Yes That. For me so much of what you’re nibbling on holds aspects I look forward to tuning to THROUGH you, and WITH you… even though I “could” go get those books myself, too. Soul Care recognizes for me that your soul work touches mine and theirs and ours. My sense is that we don’t do soul work “alone” in any kind of disconnected sense. Even in our solitude.
Love to you!
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Yes, what you say makes sense to me, and I’m glad you tuned into your “not yet” energy today and took care of yourself and your soul.
There’s so much here that’s hard to put into words.
But here are some images of my sister, Natalie’s, backyard - where I love to chill out in the summer… it was really nice there today.
