Hi Friends-
Those of you who dabble in astro-awareness will know that we are currently moving through eclipse season — a time of unstable energies and dramatic events as well as new beginnings and endings.
Internally, I am experiencing this as a call to collect myself, be as disciplined as possible, and tend to unpleasant things head-on. To recognize that all that is unfolding — even the things I would prefer not to face — is happening for me rather than to me.
Externally, I am feeling the chaos coursing through the collective and doing my best offer and receive support from friends and loved ones as we all navigate our own psycho-spiritual-physical challenges.
I am imagining my daily practices as a kind of filtration system for these chaotic energies. Each pause, each deep breath, an opportunity to filter a little more of the fear and anxiety out of my system so that I can move forward in a more grounded way.
One of my most important “filtration” practices is writing, and I find myself wanting to commit to the practice of writing — and my identity as a writer — in a deeper way.
To honor that, I will soon be moving to Substack. When you receive my next missive in two weeks, I’ll be transmitting to you from a new platform.
This isn’t an idle transition. It's intimately connected to the lessons and learnings I have been working with over the past few years. Namely, not figuring things out alone, understanding all creativity as a process of being in relationship, and my ongoing commitment to showing up (and healing) in community.
I’ll share more about my vision and what you can expect moving forward in the next newsletter, which will be coming to you from this same email address — ideas@jkg.co — but with a new name: RADIATE. ☀️
For now, I want you to know that my writing will continue to be accessible to all. What will be new is that I am opening, for the first time, to energetic reciprocity for all of the love & care I put into this newsletter.
Thank you for being here & stay tuned for more soon.
Much love,
Jocelyn
The Stories We Tell
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The stories we tell ourselves are so very powerful.
In a healing ceremony over a year ago, I had the insight that “I am a storyteller not a writer.” I see my voice as my channel, and I was really connecting into this idea of spoken words and the oral tradition as a vehicle for making meaning and passing on wisdom.
A few months later, when I was wrestling with some bad anxiety one morning, I was able to pause and notice the story that I was telling myself. And that’s when the penny dropped.
I realized: Oh, right, I am a storyteller AND I am first and foremost a storyteller for myself and to myself. Previously, I had been focused primarily on thinking about the power of storytelling and contemplating my role as a storyteller to other people. But what about the power of the stories that I was/am telling myself?? 🤯
Every word that you speak — even if it’s only part of your internal dialogue — has a specific energy and a specific vibration. And the stories that we tell are like little collections of energy and vibration.
This is what the energy healer Ann Marie Chiasson says about stories:
Stories carry energy and pattern; it is the energy and pattern within the story that allows the listener or reader to glean a secondhand experience from a story. The map of energy and pattern is an experiential map that can be picked up through story, often without effort. Providing this experiential map is the function of myth, stories, and more recently, movies, in cultures throughout the world. The pattern of an experience can be conferred through a story, as if one has had the experience itself.
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Energy Healing: The Essentials of Self-Care
This is why stories are so powerful. The stories we tell others and the stories that we tell ourselves.
I’m not pleased to admit that I have spent much of my life telling myself some very sad stories — the spiritual equivalent of hitting “repeat” on the same tired, old energetic patterns again and again.
I am not alone.
We are all legendary storytellers — with a rapt audience of one.
One person who just can’t get enough of our voice, who is hanging on our every word.
So my question to you is…
What kind of energy, what patterns, do you want the stories that you tell yourself to carry?
What are the stories that you tell yourself about the future — and about our collective future — and what is the energy that they convey?
What are the stories that you tell yourself about your creativity or your intuition or your body or your worthiness?
What are the stories that have been handed down to you by your teachers, your mentors, your friends, your family?
What is the energetic charge of those stories? Are they stories that you want to continue to tell yourself?
What if you could tell yourself a new story?
What would it be?
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One postscript/caveat:
Bear in mind that (at least in my experience) the ego is endlessly inventive when it comes to tricking you into thinking you’re telling a new story when it’s really just the same old story with a new wig.
To wit (to wig?): My “new” story that I am a storyteller and not a writer was just a crafty update to the old story that I am not a writer. It got me excited about storytelling — and connecting to my writing orally — as a kind of “creativity unlock” (and it was!). But, at the same time, it was yet another way to reaffirm the old story that I am not actually a writer. Even though I’ve been writing for over 30 years! 🙄
Shifting this “story-energy” is a key part of the impetus for the move to Substack that I mentioned above. I’ll be sharing more about working to free myself from that old story in the next newsletter.
LINK ABOUT IT
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Every day is a perfect day. I am the luckiest person alive. The unmeasurable, incalculable complications of family and property and animals and career are all luxurious complications: I am lucky to have them and they enrich my life, even as they cause me to grind my molars into shards.”
—Photographer Sally Mann, "
The Typewriter Interview"
“This is one thing that distinguishes true perfectionism from a mere pursuit of excellence: reaching the goal never helps, whether it’s a top grade, a target weight, or a professional milestone. Achievement, he says, ‘doesn’t touch that fundamental sense of being unacceptable.’”
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