5 elements to carry on the road to reorienting
Longing for more clarity? Let these elements frame your journey.
IN ALL HONESTY | AT A GLANCE
This week’s column is for paid subscribers, and it holds:
a featured story on reorienting
an invitation towards emotional embodiment
a segment on somatic storymaking
a few favorites I’ve been loving lately
a space to deepen the conversation in community comments
It’s been rainy here in North Texas. Overcast and gray.
And while I’ve been on the edge of a threshold since August, I could sense that something more was looming on the horizon.
Suddenly, I had the distinct feeling that I was missing something important. Then, I began to notice the urge to take stock of where I’ve been, to make sense of what I’ve been facing. Like a mapmaker outlining the lay of the land, I felt myself searching for the telltale “You are here” sign. I wanted to locate myself amidst all the peaks and valleys I had traveled through.
So, as a dollop of cloud descended upon the city, I became impassioned with unveiling whatever had been clouding my vision.
Maybe it’s because I’m a writer or maybe it’s because I’m a lover of language, but words are often like breadcrumbs for me. Tiny clues that encapsulate the mood du jour, guideposts that offer to illuminate my path of deep inquiry. As October ripened into autumnal bliss, a word befitting of my mental state dropped into my spirit:
re·or·i·ent
/rēˈôrēənt/
to find one's position again in relation to one's surroundings
Yes. After so many shifts, phases and transitions in my life, I needed to reorient. But how? Over the last few weeks, I’ve been feeling it out, following my intuition and trusting that, with prayer, the path would unfold before me. It did. And these are the 5 elements I carried with me on the road to reorienting: