(this is one of my latest posts - March 16, 2020 on the Wandering Hearts Collective. Daily connection posts now happening, join us, your heart will love you for it.)
Faaaaaaaar out. Who is writing this story?
It's an intense time to be in the world. Have you noticed how difficult it is to connect to your heart with this much chaos, distraction, disruption, panic and fear around? To stay true to your creative work? It's nearly impossible. Which makes it such a good way of seeing how much fear disconnects us from ourselves on a daily basis, this is the extreme.
I've continued writing but have noticed this weekend was more challenging as the fear on social media and in the area increased, and we made the decision to pull Laly out of school now instead of waiting for the government to announce it. That has meant a huge reshuffling of how we structure our day, and how I will manage to work while she is home. But if there is one thing my mother taught me (of course she taught me many things but this is certainly one), its how important it is to create a very strong daily rhythm and structure when you are confined at home. She taught me this when we lived in Northern Italy, I was 14, and she essentially homeschooled me for that year and a half. It was a huge change for me - I had no friends, I barely left the apartment, I had no family except my mum and dad who I rarely saw because he was so busy working, and it was entirely different culture and language - the locals looked at me like I was an alien. But Mum took the challenge by the horns and excelled. She gave me a solid daily routine that got me through, making sure we connected with nature everyday with a walk to the river, even if I was so down and didn't want to, she'd practically drag me out - I'm so glad she did. And now, it looks like it's my turn. So like her, I'm taking the challenge by the horns and doing what she taught me through example. It means this week will be a bit of an experiment, but hopefully we will get into a healthy routine that suits us all. (addition: I’ll be sharing our days and activities so subscribe, follow on the socials, I’ll be spreading it out on different platforms so everyone can access something).
I have been thinking of ways to create this space (Wandering Hearts Collective on Patreon) to suit us at this crazy time, I know this is a vital time for us all to get connected to our true selves, for those of us who are not suffering in health at this point and our only real challenge is our isolation, it's an opportunity to do the very thing our intuition has been relentlessly on about for years, it's the very time to open to our heart calling. As we know, most people don't start their own businesses or get their idea going because they don't have time away from their full time jobs, or they're too tired at the end of the day, or they simply don't have enough time. It's because we are always so busy. Now, the busy-ness is coming to a halt. And we can breathe. Centre. And find out who we really are without all the noise and control and do what we need to do.
I want to create quick, short posts here that will be simple, fun tasks to connect us to our hearts. And I'll also be creating things we can do for others in our communities. I'd love to make this a daily check in point. Instead of writing long posts (which will be hard for me, I'm a chatterbox!), I will try to make them very short, maybe just simple pictures or notes.
And if there is something specific you feel you want let me know, let's make this place a refuge for the chaos out there, a space we can tap into anytime we want and know there will be something here to guide us gently on our own heart path.
Sending love to each of you, let me know how you are, how you're feeling, what's happening around you, and anything else you feel like sharing.
Pia xx