My son graduated from high school last week. Wow. Time is a funny thing.
I am so delighted watching him alchemize into the young man who is emerging.
His BEINGNESS for me represents the most pivotal moment in my life. A wake up call. The moment I realized I could have a truth that was different from the people around me and “be right”. The moment I became separate-from my parents, sibling, friends and boyfriend and their expectations of me.
Up until that point I never spent time thinking about what was true for me. Just what I thought everyone else wanted of me. I didn’t even really know that thinking for myself was possible.
My son’s BEINGNESS represents a sense of sovereignty I felt, that I had never accessed before that point. A somatic understanding of truth, so deep within my core, nothing could sway my inner knowing.
That embodied sense of truth and inner knowing continued (and continues) to show up for me after that moment. Each time, a little easier to sense and know in my body.
From educational decisions I’ve made for both my boys, to knowing when they need to go to the ER, to my partnership with my husband, to quitting my job as a guidance counselor, to having a business that facilitates my husband only working 2 days a week and MORE, my felt-sense experience of TRUTH and KNOWING is strong in my system.
Thank you Caleb. You are and continue to be one of my greatest teachers. I am so grateful for you.
