Category: Staying Connected
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Enlightenment Is Not Something to Attain
I was profoundly moved by the monks’ 2,300-mile Walk for Peace. After observing their unwavering devotion and embodied demonstration of loving-kindness, after listening carefully to their message, and after participating in the global meditation that marked the completion of their journey, I found myself quietly changed. Nothing dramatic happened outwardly. There was no spectacle, no…
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People don’t see me clearly!
Here’s something liberating and sobering: People don’t see me clearly. Nor do they see you clearly. They see us through their own lens. Everyone has private memories, wounds, longings, fears, and beliefs. That inner world filters and colours their view of you. So when someone judges you, misunderstands you, idealises you, diminishes you, projects onto you,…
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Aurora on the Sacred Mirroring Spiral
When Dawn Meets Longing Today, Aurora arrived for me in meditation—not as an abstract myth, but as a presence moving through my body and awareness. She appeared on what I call my Sacred Mirroring Spiral, that inner landscape where insight doesn’t arrive in straight lines, but in returns, reflections, and deepening recognition. If you’ve ever felt…
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The Difference Between a Feeling and a Belief
Why this distinction quietly changes everything in the healing process Many people use the words feeling, emotion, and belief interchangeably. Yet in the inner world, they describe very different phenomena. Learning to discern between them is one of the most quietly revolutionary steps on a healing path, because it returns us to the truth of what belongs to the…
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THE C H A N G E (Menopause): The Ultimate Permission Slip to Be Yourself
For many women, The Change (menopause) is framed as a loss, a fading of youth, fertility, or energy. But what if we shifted the lens? What if The Change wasn’t an ending, but a powerful beginning? The Change (menopause) is one of the most transformative permission slips a woman can ever receive. It’s the moment…
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Embracing the archetype of the Exalted Elder
It’s quiet at first, then powerfully undeniable. When your body begins to shift from one role into another. I call it “The Change,” and there is something affectionate in that phrase, because it captures a transformation far deeper than a biological transition. It marks a threshold, a crossing, a gentle unravelling of an old identity…
ELIZABETH ELLAMES 