#5 - When You Have More Questions Than Answers

The Be With Podcast

Today’s episode is a real-time look at where I’m at and an honest reflection on how I’ve navigated a time of introspection, contraction and slowing down. 2018 has been a whirlwind for me, blessing me with greater expansion then I could have previously imagined, and asking of me deeper personal exploration then I’ve done in a decade. On this episode I walk you through the tools I’ve been using to find my way forward, what I’ve found challenging in this stage of evolution and how you can use self & community care to bolster yourself when the going gets tough. Want to support Be With? Please subscribe, rate and review this podcast on iTunes, and share it with the people you love! IN THIS EPISODE: - Looking back on 2018 (2:30) - Why, hello contraction! (5:15) - What I've been doing for self-care to navigate this time of contraction (19:40) Quotes from Barbara: “All things move from expansion to contraction to expansion again.” “Our culture really celebrates the expansion part of our human experience and not the contraction of our human experience.” “Whenever there’s something happening for one of us, we can find a mirror for that in the collective - for everyone. As much as we think we are separate, we are all deeply connected by our energy, by the very nature of what we are.” “Underneath day to day contraction, there is spiritual growth and healing that’s happening that’s running like groundwater, deep underneath the level of the earth.” “Follow wherever the energy is to what will allow you to feel a sense of accomplishment, that’s not about your worth or your ego brain and questions like - am I good, am I not good? But that’s going to give you a sense of movement, of completion and clearing. So anything that’s going allow you to feel like you’re physically playing with the energy of clearing so you can make space for creation. We’re following the breadcrumbs of our energy to know that though we might know the thing that is coming, we do know the things that we are letting go of. This is really crucial to the process of trusting ourselves in the moment." Quotes Mentioned: - "What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly" - Lao Tzu - “Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.” - Ranier Maria Rilke ABOUT THE PODCAST: A podcast about the art & practice of care with your host, emotional wellness coach Barbara Erochina. The Be With Podcast explores healthy spirituality, feeling our feelings and justice for all. ABOUT BARBARA: Barbara Erochina is an emotional wellness coach and the creator of Cards for Self- Care. She combines Gestalt psychotherapy, spiritual direction and coaching in order to help coaches, leaders and healers deepen their own inner life and have greater impact through their work in the world. Barbara coaches one on one, runs online masterminds and offers in-person retreats & workshops. WEBSITE: www.bewith.org INSTAGRAM: @bewithcards EMAIL: [e-mail] SOUND ENGINEER: sebastianpalfery.com