This week, I've been embodying the concept of Rerooting and sharing how I collaborate with my clients to comprehend its significance for them, each in their own distinctive way.
At its core, Rerooting is a deliberate slowing down, cultivating a gentle awareness that something feels amiss, and recognising we may be anchored to something that doesn't resonate with our true selves.
It involves giving ourselves permission to create space for deeper enquiry and connection with our authentic selves. Rather than having all the answers, it's about initiating a journey of questioning, sparking curiosity about who we are, and what we truly want.
When I first delved into what I now term 'Rerooting' in Jamaica and Colombia last year, I experienced an unprecedented sense of presence, finding gratitude and joy in life's simplest things.
From that sense of presence I began to feel creative again. I felt curious about what I could create, open to what was coming my way, and braver to say no to things that were no longer serving me.
I saw my life much like a jigsaw puzzle. Previously, there were so many abstract pieces I had no idea how they all fitted together. For many years, I thought I had to have it all together, to have the ‘perfect puzzle' but just like the white rabbit in Alice In Wonderland, I raced through life, feeling constantly behind, attempting to assemble the pieces.
I had been forcing many pieces into directions they weren't meant to go, constructing a life picture that lacked cohesion or sense.
What does it even mean to have it all together?
“Someone along the way, maybe a 90s author, wrote a book called, ‘Do you have your s**t together,’ and everyone subscribed to it. And since then, we have all been questioning whether we have our s**t together. Well, I don’t think anyone has their s**t together.” Dan Levy
Learning to embrace not having it all together is a new muscle for most of us. Allowing the process of deeper connection to be messy, and abstract, is all part of it.
Despite the discomfort, as the resilience grows, so does the sense of strength. However chaotic the process, the more rooted we become, connected to our core, the less abstract and more intentional it feels.
Allowing ourselves to step back and look in through the lens of compassion and trust, begins to offer a renewed perspective of what is possible.
Rerooting will mean something different for each of us. What does it mean for you?
Not sure where to begin?
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