Coming Home To Yourself
Written By Danielle Bararuk | January 22, 2023
For nearly three years now, our lives have been upended by external events well beyond our control, from a global pandemic to geopolitical strife and so many other things in between. You may have read a number of articles that attempted to articulate how you might be feeling. Were you languishing? Was your nervous system unbalanced due to a period of prolonged stress? Or did you simply feel, like I did, like a prairie dog popping up over and over again to scan for danger. It was like playing wack-a-mole!
If you found words, expressions, or descriptions that pinpointed your emotions, I congratulate you. To be able to name our deepest feelings is true power. And even if you couldn’t name them, I know that you were feeling things on a visceral level. One thing I heard from clients that resonated with me was a sense of being unmoored, lost, and longing for shelter.
For all my ‘lost’ souls out there missing that sense of comfort and safety, I invite you to come home to yourself.
More than a physical location, I believe home is a state of mind, a state of being. For a healthier you in 2023, come back to yourself. Find yourself. Seek comfort in your own strength and wisdom from the most ancient parts of your soul.
This is the time to fully process all of those named and unnamed feelings so that we can finally put them in our rearview mirror. This is the time to study yourself – your body, your mind, and your soul. Your wants and needs. The real you versus the way the world sees you.
If you can find your way back to all of that, you’ll find improved health, better balance, and the contented peace of being able to access a safe haven anywhere you go – because that safe haven, that home, lives inside you.
This is a journey. We’ve all been walking a long road through the vast unknown since March 2020. Now is an opportunity to find our way back. The first thing to do is simply to stop, pause, reflect on how far away from yourself you may have gone. Are you a different person than you were three years ago? I sure am. And I miss the person I was. I’m determined to find her again, and I invite you to join me.
To come home to your body, listen to it. Do a body scan every night to root out which parts feel good and which feel tension or even pain. Nourish those parts of your body.
To come home to your mind, start journaling. Write down the best parts of your day, week, month or of the past few years. Write down your fears and the things you miss from the “before.” Then, write down your hopes for the year ahead.
To come home to your soul, meditate and practice mindfulness or spend time in nature. Attune yourself to your own highest frequency and listen to the messages that surface from deep within. Heed them.
And with that, I welcome you home… to yourself.
Danielle Bararuk
BScPT