This is probably the most beautifully touching and transformative reflection on the practice and connection with cacao, thank you so much for saying yes. Yes to the Dieta, yes to the facilitator training but more so yes to cacao and you now, not as someone you were or will be but who you are now!
Having served and taught cacao for many years and throughout many different phases and crucial life experiences I truly believe she wants and encourages us to accept and embrace change. And when I listen to your thoughts, it feels as if you tried to hold on to your maiden self or the time before kids when you met cacao first and kept expecting yourself to continue to uphold the image of ceremony or performance or even the identify of spending hours in focus on order to be „perfect“ or „do it correctly“. When cacao is THE medicine that tells us that there is no right way, only our way 🙏 but it can be oh so hard to find new ways in new circumstances and grief what currently is not anymore possible the same way, but it opens up the possibility for what we never expected and your words are the perfect confirmation for that 😍❤️🍫
Thank you so much for these beautiful reflections - honestly I am so grateful for you listening, and being my guide and the catalyst for me saying YES right now. It has been beyond magical the lessons she has already showed me and I am so excited to see what else she has to teach me. She is certainly helping me learn that if I tune into my heart and listen enough then I don't need to worry about 'getting things right'. xxxx
I loved this deep dive into your experience with Mama Cacao and can so see how important and sacred the moment of connection is within your day, it is a beautiful way to honour yourself. I also love how you brought the girls into the process. And yes to bringing together all of the parts into the fullest expression of yourself. I too am feeling the shift from thinking about all of the pieces to how they all fit together and coexist, thank you for sharing your heart so generously xx
Are you taking new clients? I have a friend who I think could use your help and both of you would hit it off well. I loved each bit of this, I learn so much from how you move through your days. I am still finding myself trying to segment everything and I realized as you spoke how separate that leaves me feeling. I do have my husband home with my everyday so I have grown used to being able to wait to go take time to write or whatever I am desiring. But this way I am living, I miss the micro moments and small bits of tending to myself when I am in. It is something I am going to play with and lean into this week because I also see how this pattern leads me to pull away from my child and what he is needing because I am thinking about what I am going to do next time I am alone. I have been having the soul nudge to connect with cacao again, I haven’t had it since before becoming pregnant with my son and that was almost 3 years ago. Seeing the title of this, I was like okay I will finally allow myself to buy some cacao and begin again. Finally, the last bit about checking your intention of why you are doing something, I am such a crammed, free time or alone time means to must do something, I am trying more to listen to my heart and check in with how nourishing whatever my brain is telling me to do will be. Thank you for sharing your words and your heart and prompting so much self reflection.
Hello lovely - I am so so grateful you took the time to listen to the podcast - it truly gives me so much joy to share it, and your contemplations from it are beautiful. I have to say that I have only just felt fully ready to devote myself to Mama Cacao again after dropping in and out but never fully softening to her guidance. I feel so ready now and I am so grateful to the medicine. I truly feel like it is a real Mother's holding as well - not only because of the nourishing element physically, but it literally feels like she is holding me when I drink it and I get that sense of being held for the rest of the day on the days I have drunk her.
It has been a huge lesson in merging my worlds aswell. I think there is absolutely time to sit and be alone but also there are so many beautiful moments that I can weave in with the girls and I want them to see the ways they can bring sacredness into their days as well - I really hope they will have some rememberings of these kind of moments.
And yes - I am definitely open to new clients if we align together, please do pass on any details to her. xxx
It was such a joy to listen. I love the experience you are having I am curious of what my own experience will be when I begin again, I definitely do not think I surrendered fully but I am in such a different place in my life where I am way more open to being held and craving it.
Yes, I want to be an example of how my son can merge sacredness into his life, and he will not see it, if I am going to do it away from him.
Hi Emma, it seems you have a wonderful soul nudge to use Lauren’s sweet words! I made the first day of the cacao Dieta available to everyone and it can be used for any cacao practice, as it is about presence. As you mentioned you tend to cram things in and are aware to allow more space in your time and bringend I thought this would speak to you: https://open.substack.com/pub/kakaozauber/p/the-power-of-presence-cacao-dieta?r=1v148l&utm_medium=ios
This is probably the most beautifully touching and transformative reflection on the practice and connection with cacao, thank you so much for saying yes. Yes to the Dieta, yes to the facilitator training but more so yes to cacao and you now, not as someone you were or will be but who you are now!
Having served and taught cacao for many years and throughout many different phases and crucial life experiences I truly believe she wants and encourages us to accept and embrace change. And when I listen to your thoughts, it feels as if you tried to hold on to your maiden self or the time before kids when you met cacao first and kept expecting yourself to continue to uphold the image of ceremony or performance or even the identify of spending hours in focus on order to be „perfect“ or „do it correctly“. When cacao is THE medicine that tells us that there is no right way, only our way 🙏 but it can be oh so hard to find new ways in new circumstances and grief what currently is not anymore possible the same way, but it opens up the possibility for what we never expected and your words are the perfect confirmation for that 😍❤️🍫
Thank you so much for these beautiful reflections - honestly I am so grateful for you listening, and being my guide and the catalyst for me saying YES right now. It has been beyond magical the lessons she has already showed me and I am so excited to see what else she has to teach me. She is certainly helping me learn that if I tune into my heart and listen enough then I don't need to worry about 'getting things right'. xxxx
Catching up - will listen tomorrow ✨
I loved this deep dive into your experience with Mama Cacao and can so see how important and sacred the moment of connection is within your day, it is a beautiful way to honour yourself. I also love how you brought the girls into the process. And yes to bringing together all of the parts into the fullest expression of yourself. I too am feeling the shift from thinking about all of the pieces to how they all fit together and coexist, thank you for sharing your heart so generously xx
Thank you so much for listening. It’s interesting how it’s taken me this long to fully allow the merging… but it feels way more whole to do so. Xxx
Are you taking new clients? I have a friend who I think could use your help and both of you would hit it off well. I loved each bit of this, I learn so much from how you move through your days. I am still finding myself trying to segment everything and I realized as you spoke how separate that leaves me feeling. I do have my husband home with my everyday so I have grown used to being able to wait to go take time to write or whatever I am desiring. But this way I am living, I miss the micro moments and small bits of tending to myself when I am in. It is something I am going to play with and lean into this week because I also see how this pattern leads me to pull away from my child and what he is needing because I am thinking about what I am going to do next time I am alone. I have been having the soul nudge to connect with cacao again, I haven’t had it since before becoming pregnant with my son and that was almost 3 years ago. Seeing the title of this, I was like okay I will finally allow myself to buy some cacao and begin again. Finally, the last bit about checking your intention of why you are doing something, I am such a crammed, free time or alone time means to must do something, I am trying more to listen to my heart and check in with how nourishing whatever my brain is telling me to do will be. Thank you for sharing your words and your heart and prompting so much self reflection.
Hello lovely - I am so so grateful you took the time to listen to the podcast - it truly gives me so much joy to share it, and your contemplations from it are beautiful. I have to say that I have only just felt fully ready to devote myself to Mama Cacao again after dropping in and out but never fully softening to her guidance. I feel so ready now and I am so grateful to the medicine. I truly feel like it is a real Mother's holding as well - not only because of the nourishing element physically, but it literally feels like she is holding me when I drink it and I get that sense of being held for the rest of the day on the days I have drunk her.
It has been a huge lesson in merging my worlds aswell. I think there is absolutely time to sit and be alone but also there are so many beautiful moments that I can weave in with the girls and I want them to see the ways they can bring sacredness into their days as well - I really hope they will have some rememberings of these kind of moments.
And yes - I am definitely open to new clients if we align together, please do pass on any details to her. xxx
It was such a joy to listen. I love the experience you are having I am curious of what my own experience will be when I begin again, I definitely do not think I surrendered fully but I am in such a different place in my life where I am way more open to being held and craving it.
Yes, I want to be an example of how my son can merge sacredness into his life, and he will not see it, if I am going to do it away from him.
Will do! <3
Hi Emma, it seems you have a wonderful soul nudge to use Lauren’s sweet words! I made the first day of the cacao Dieta available to everyone and it can be used for any cacao practice, as it is about presence. As you mentioned you tend to cram things in and are aware to allow more space in your time and bringend I thought this would speak to you: https://open.substack.com/pub/kakaozauber/p/the-power-of-presence-cacao-dieta?r=1v148l&utm_medium=ios
Thank you for sharing, I will definitely check it out.
I can confirm it is a beautiful practice to do. xx
So excited to listen xx
Hope you enjoy! Xx