We haven’t made those decisions on who can nourish us. We trust all of those around us because that’s all we know. We are looking to just get our physical needs met when we are in this state. We don’t know how to filter out what is unwanted. That is why it is so important to revisit this chakra as often as possible. To continue to grow the most important trust there is, the trust in the self. After physical abuse, abandonment, neglect, illness, poverty, it can be difficult to build that trust again. Physical abuse can also be self-inflicted through eating disorders, intentional self-inflicting pain, and neglect of your own needs and feelings. If anything feels missing, come back to this.

For a moment I thought about the newsletters and blog posts. Thinking to myself “Who really reads these anyways” and the answer is maybe not a lot. And I guess that’s the point. To write like no one is reading.

“There is a lot of pressure to be good enough. Whether it's in our work, our relationships, our creativity, and our movement. A portion of this is healthy I think. A small part of not feeling enough may move me forward. But what if instead it holds me back? How do I know if the thoughts that consume me, actually hurt instead?”