Today is a bloody ritual 🩸💔

Are you coming to the end of a cycle? Or perhaps you’re feeling a new beginning awaiting? Or maybe both simultaneously? 

There is always a beginning and an end to everything in life. And n’between cycles there is a sacred space of reflection - what I call the n’betweener space.

I see this space as a sacred ritual. A palpable invitation to deeply reflect and take things in. 

The issue is that this step can be easy to skip over.

At the end of every cycle, there is something to learn. There is a message waiting to be received. Something to be integrated. 

Sometimes we miss out on these teachings when we don’t acknowledge our life cycles.

As women and people with uteruses we have the honor and pain to be in contact with our cycle every month - our menstrual cycle. 

What a powerful gift to have a built-in bodily reminder to support us with integration 💝

Unfortunately, we sometimes want to dismiss our cycle, pretend it doesn’t exist. 

It’s draining to be with our menstruation, the bodily heaviness, the physical pain, the messy bleeding, the moods and the attentive care it requires. 

Our menstrual cycle invites us to track ourselves more intimately. Am I ovulating? bleeding? What phase am I in?

When we don’t track our life cycles, we skip over important learnings. Take a moment to notice where you are on your cycle right now.

Today is a bloody ritual for me 🩸

May 2nd marks the death anniversary of my papa. I begin my morning in Copenhagen and end my afternoon in Boulder, and somewhere in between fly over the Atlantic. 

P’tit papa - You wanted to be a pilot. Somehow I’ve gotten on more planes than you. You taught me about the n’betweeness. You helped me coin the term n’betweener, and taught me how to allow the multiplicity of my identities to coexist.

Traveling across the ocean on a plane feels like the most beautiful ritual I could have today. That I get to honor what you’ve taught me in my life. The gift I have had to call you my dad. 

Ironically I bleed now as I travel. My cycle feels like an honoring of your death. Honoring the shedding of the pain. Honoring the end of your life cycle.

Rituals transform pain into sacredness ✨

Rituals allow for greater connection with ourselves and others.

We light a candle for a birthday, we dance at weddings, and we honor the death of our loved ones with flowers. These rituals honor parts of our growth and learning.

So what needs to be honored in your life right now? What needs to be acknowledged?

Most likely you are currently in some type of transitional phase - n’between cycles.

Join me for a ritual today to honor your current cycle.

Pull out your journal and make space to ask yourself these questions:

•  What is the learning here?

•  Why did this cycle need to happen?

•  What became clear to me in this process?

Over the ocean somewhere in space I send you a hug ✈️ 

Nora