Autumn

AUTUMN


Autumn whispers the story of unbecoming into our flesh and across the land.

It is an ancient tale.

Showing us a way of being that can help the mind, the body, the soul.

We always dream of becoming, and yet, I have learnt that becoming, needs lots of unbecoming, to grow well.

Within you, you have the perfect conditions for things to take root, to grow, to rewild your life.

But this fertile ground may be covered over with harsh stories, ways of being that lay heavy, language that tightens and makes small.

Let yourself taste these ways, their acidic essence becoming so strong you cannot hold them in your flesh anymore.

Let yourself digest their meanings, getting to know why they are within you.

Letting yourself understand with love, care, forgiveness, and compassion, all that you are.

For this will help you to release, help you to compost what no longer serves you. 

So, you can choose life, choose you, choose growing.

For under these ways, is something more fertile, more alive, more open to life’s beauty.

And it is here that your seeds of becoming can grow, now unhindered, now fed.

Brigit Anna McNeill