Holding Space - with Love

This past year of 2020 gave me an amazing Baby Boy and a Healing Space of my own. These are the kinds of treasures I had not been prepared for but that changed my life in a profound way, once again. At a remarkable time in history, during a global crises.

PHOTO: Anna Maimann

​It made very clear to me that being true to your
Inner Knowing is not just a lofty concept,
it really is Higher Guidance.

The bigger picture, when we,
from our limited human perspective,
​can’t be sure just how it all will unfold.

​It has taken me years to arrive to the point when this trusting feels like knowing. We have to choose to trust. We have to choose to listen behind all the confusion, fears, the chaos of the world.
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Going through an unexpected love affair, then a break up while being pregnant, asked for some serious dedication from me. I chose to welcome what life had planned for me. I chose to move through my fears, pain, sadness and anger and let it all wash through me, carving me ever more open for life in all it’s colors. 

It showed me that if I truly, TRULY
​listen to the Voice of my Soul,
despite the fears of my mind,
I will find a beautiful path filled with gifts.

PHOTO: Anna Maimann

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​I have observed how many people have gotten very very confused as to what to believe, who to trust, not knowing what to make of it all. It IS a confusing time and there are some who are intentionally creating more confusion, separation, doubt, fear, anger… And yes, there are many things that are out of balance in this world. As we’ve been intentionally pushed into extreme thinking, I have gotten the message, an invitation for Holding Space. Simply being there, for all the confusion and chaos, so that it can settle and calm down. Like a mother, that safe, sacred observer of all the emotions that wash through a little baby. As best as I can. Allowing it all to unfold. ​

PHOTO: Soma Kuosmanen, after her drum making workshop in my healing space, Valon Lähde

​It is not all bad and evil and it is not all good and lovely. Nothing is. And that might be just the whole point: nothing is all good or all bad. There are layers upon layers and only by BEING PRESENT to ALL those layers being revealed, within us, within other people and this whole global society we live in, can we find unity and peace. Within who we are and within this world as a whole. 


These are big words and I am aware that life will keep on happening… we are never really going to reach a static state of balance as that is not how life works. As a mother, I am far from perfect. As a  healer, I constantly learn and expand. As a human, I keep feeling the feelings, having deeper insights and observing how I keep transforming. As long as we live, life will keep on moving and transforming. The thing is, we simply need to let it. And we need to let ourselves keep changing. Hopefully in a conscious way, so that we open up for more and more space within, giving more space to the new to grow in our world. 

Holding the Baby,
holding space,
holding the World,
​with love. 

Meri