How do we choose to experience nostalgia?

Nostalgia is a double edged sword! One that can cut the ties that bind you, or one that keeps you paralysed in the past.

It is our choice what side of the sword we wield.

To know that the desire to hurt is born from a hurt that lives within our DNA, our bones,

to reflect upon all the incredible souls we have crossed paths with - to reflect with gratitude rather than disappointment that rivers diverged into creeks and oceans.

Oceans of what if this and what if I wasn't operating from my most wounded self - that.

Enough expanse to lose yourself in.

Breathe life through the sadness grown from nostalgia.

Give her space to stretch her legs, hug her and hold her, assure us that we did the best we could from our level of conscious awareness.

We integrate ourselves to find the parts of ourselves we search for in others.