Joints, Nurturing and Healing

At a recent visit with a pup and kitty, they shared with me messages about taking new paths so that I can see and understand things from new perspectives and through new experiences. This correlates greatly with the walk with my tooth/jaw joint and with my mom’s knee joint. Both are on the left side of the body which on a spiritual basis has to do with the female aspects of intuition, nurturing, compassion, caring, and strength in the element of being vulnerable with our emotions. This is an area that both my mom and I find challenging as we both tend to be very independent and not wanting to show any pain, discomfort, or show vulnerability as it was always perceived within the ancestral line as being weak.

Part of the new pathways and channels that my pet friends spoke about are new ways of seeing those elements and that allowing others in to see where we are is not a weakness, but a strength. It takes courage to allow yourself to be seen in all the different stages as that is not how we were raised. Hopefully things are changing for the next generations.

My mom and I are working through this together which opens the doors for communication and the processing of many unshed grief expressions relating to the deaths of nine grandparents, uncles, and my dad that occurred in a 33-year period along with six close colleagues and forty-five pet friends. An aspect of the grieving is no longer feeling this need to be so strong or our perception of what that is or what it feels like. No longer keeping it hidden beneath the surface. For me there is an added piece to get beyond the belief that tears, emotions and the like do not align with professionalism in the business world regardless of the line of work one is in. There was a situation early on in my career that adds to this aspect.

For my mom and I it is processing what we couldn’t do – me initially and her now. And although very different in many ways, there have been just as many similarities. Yet for both of us it is learning what we must do in new ways and how we are stretching personal boundaries or things we had not felt possible before. Even the follow up appointment dates are aligning for each of us to the point of we just find ourselves laughing as the synchronicity is over the top.

This year for me is about finding and traveling those new pathways whether physical, emotional, or mental to heal myself and release the grief held deeply within. Challenges in a joint is often about flexibility or being too in control and the jaw is a part of the throat chakra and self-expression as well as speaking our truth.

I do believe we all will be finding new paths and learning how each corresponds to our lives, new opportunities, and the harmony between flexibility and control as well as nurturing and healing ourselves.