Flowing Into Fall Season With Grace, Gratitude & Grounding

We have at our doorstep, yet another transitional point in our calendar year, one marked with crispy mornings, longer nights, erratic weather, mirrored in our body and mind as a feeling of dryness in our senses, fragility in our joints, restlessness in our body and anxiety in our mind.

Just as Nature is slowly preparing for the colder, darker months ahead, so too are we invited to prepare our mind, body and senses to welcome and honor this next phase in Her cycle.

Autumn is, in many ways, the season of surrender.

If we look to Nature we can see the wisdom in surrendering.

The rose surrenders its petals, teaching us that just because something was beautiful doesn’t mean it must exist in that shape forever. Yet, it will likely be beautiful again.

The trees surrendering their leaves, showing us how many more stars we can see through bare branches, and how much is revealed to us when we are brave enough to stand bare.

Our hearts are filled with gratitude as we celebrate our summer’s labor and accomplishments in community, allowing the reciprocal energy of love to flow - giving and receiving with no agenda in mind but to connect. 

We can also take this time to reflect on our challenges and how we have overcome them, or perhaps on the goals we had set out in the spring and have yet to see the results of our effecting. 

We offer ourselves so much Grace. 

Instead of falling into the “should have, could have, would have” and continue on our hamster wheel of never-ended “doingness”, we can choose to take this time to pause, ground into our body, open our heart, connect with each other, and recognize what we already have right here, right now: family, fresh food, fresh air - beauty, love and abundance. 

As the leaves continue gracing us with a changing “colorscape” of orange, yellow and red, we are also being invited to adjust our own lifestyle, habits and attitude to flow in sync with nature’s rhythm. 

It’s time to look at our behavioral and thought patterns and come back to our self-care practices to help ground our body, calm our mind, and soothe our senses.

To honor this powerful transition, we go back to basics: food, rest and energy management. 

We can enjoy creating culinary delights with seasonal fruits & veggies; slowing down our pace, choosing to add more slow nature walks into our day; connecting with one another through story telling, a warm hug and perfectly spiced drink; and allowing what no longer serves us to be released.

Here is a little reflection on offer: What are you celebrating this fall season? What needs to be release and let go of? How do you want to feel this fall season? What lifestyle choices will support you in feeling this way?

Change is not easy. But it’s made much easier when we remember we are empowered beings, and we get to co-create our own reality. Always guided by Mother Nature through these transitions, we can attune to her rhythm and adjust our own pace to match hers. 

That my friends, is when we get to taste what it feels like to be in harmony, in ease and in flow with Life.

Wishing you a glorious, colorful fall season, marked with tender moments of love, connection and abundance. 

With Love & Gratitude,

Sophia Wood Massicotte